New House speaker search; wind-powered cargo ships
Republicans will find a new Speaker of the House after the House members voted Kevin McCarthy out of the role on Tuesday, reports said. Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan are seeking the post. Kevin Hern, who chairs the Republican Study Committee may also run but hasn’t publicly announced his candidacy.
The best feature of the phone is guaranteed to be updated
Google has announced that it’ll release its new Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones with over seven years of Android and security updates. This comes days after Apple announced that its new iPhone models will have security updates for at least five years. Google has claimed that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will also be free from hardware-related issues for seven years.
ThePixel 8 is a little bit smarter than the previous one
Google on Monday unveiled its latest Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro smartphones with a starting price of $699 and $999 respectively. The Pixel 8 will be the first phone to get Google’s ‘Android U’ update, while the Pixel 8 Pro will get Google’s ‘Android 20’ update. Both the Pixel 8 models will get at least seven years of Android updates, Google said.
It will have seven years of Android updates for the Pixel 8 series
Google on Tuesday unveiled Pixel 8 and 8 Pro smartphones which will get seven years of OS, security, and feature drops updates. Users will receive the latest updates every few months and new features with Feature Drops every few months, Google said. The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro support face unlocking with the same amount of security as fingerprint unlocking.
Kevin Scott talked about Bing’s quest to beat Google and their future
Kevin McReynolds, the creative director of YouTube, spoke about the future of AI and said, “You’re almost Certainly going to want to use some of these AI tools to help produce content.” He added, “What you want from a search engine and what you’re going to want from an agent is a little more complicated than just asking a question and getting an answer.”
Silicon Valley is falling for frauds
FTX Co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in August this year, had told The New York Times before his arrest that he “didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone”. “I didn’t ever try to enter into a criminal enterprise,” he had said. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to seven counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
Bing is worse than GOOGLE, and Apple could fix it, according to Nadella
Google CEO Satya Nadella, in a recent interview, said that search engines “are the organising layer of the internet” and added that they’re looking at artificial intelligence (AI) to “improve it”. He added that AI has the potential to shake up the market a bit but also believes it could further entrench Google’s dominance.
Four deaths have caused the Onewheel to be recalled
Self-balancing skateboards maker Future Motion has offered a $100 credit to early adopters of the Onewheel GT model that was recalled over a safety risk. The company has also started rolling out a ‘haptic buzz’ alert function that “riders can hear and feel” when they may be in danger of crashing. It’s rolling out a ‘pro-rated credit’ of $100 to the purchase of new board.
The synthetic social network is coming soon
Google’s AI assistant Bard will be available for users on the Pixel 7 Pro, the tech giant announced on Monday. Bard is an all-purpose AI assistant that can help users with tasks like managing reminders, summarizing documents, writing meal plans and responding to texts. It was first introduced to Google Assistant in June 2018 but was discontinued in December 2018.
I think we are all talking to each other now
Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has said Meta’s voice-controlled smart glasses are better than the “Pro” helmet the company abandoned because it has a really good augmented reality experience. He added that the Meta Quest 3 is better than the “Pro” headset because it has a really good AI experience. Zuckerberg further said that the company is rolling its new products out more slowly than usual.