India launched CMS-03, also known as GSAT-7R, on an LVM3 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, lifting off early Sunday at 6:56 a.m. EST. About 16 minutes later, the 4,400-kilogram craft reached geostationary transfer orbit, the heaviest communications satellite ever sent to GTO from Indian soil, ISRO said. CMS-03...
Google’s Pixel Watch 3 45mm Wi-Fi hit a new low at $199.99 at Amazon, Walmart, and Target—$100 off and $150 under the Pixel Watch 4—with Wear OS 6, Gemini AI, and perks like Google TV remote control, offline Maps routes, and auto-transcribed voice notes on Pixel phones. Fitness tracking spans...
Cursor introduced Composer, its first claimed competitive coding model, alongside Cursor 2.0, an IDE modeled after Visual Studio Code. Composer, built with reinforcement learning and a mixture-of-experts architecture, is pitched as a frontier model “4x faster than similarly intelligent models.” Cursor’s internal benchmarks suggest it trails the best frontier models...
Google is opening early access to Gemini in Google Home. Gemini adds smarter, contextual commands — including multi-device control and tune recognition with details about artists or albums. Subscribers to Google Home Premium Advanced can have Gemini analyze camera footage, label events in video history, and surface key clips from...
Google’s Gemini for Home rolls AI into paid Home app plans, promising daily video summaries, AI-labeled alerts, and the Ask Home chatbot. But early use shows shaky accuracy: dogs repeatedly tagged as deer, empty rooms flagged as people, and package drops missed, prompting false alarms and eroding trust. The model...
Microsoft's latest quarter undercut hopes for Xbox. Gaming revenue slipped 2% as Xbox hardware plunged 22%, while growth was a scant 1% and largely lifted by better-than-expected third-party titles like Clair Obscur Expedition 33. CFO Amy Hood forecast another low to mid single digit decline next quarter, citing a lack...
Canva is relaunching Affinity as a single, all in one creative app for photo editing, vector illustration, and page layouts, promising it will be free forever with no subscription. Available now on Windows and Mac and coming to iPad, the app uses one universal file type and links directly to...
YouTube is pushing deeper into big-screen viewing with a feature drop for TV audiences: automatic AI upscaling of videos to 1080p (with labeled "super resolution" up to 4K coming), bigger 50MB thumbnails, and an immersive channel-surfing homepage that spotlights Shows collections and prioritizes creator content in TV search. Shopping gets...
Utah and California are pushing AI transparency, passing laws that require businesses—and in California, police departments—to disclose when AI is used, including chatbots and report-writing tools. Supporters, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, say labeling lets people opt out and drags AI use out of the shadows; San Francisco now publicly...
Google has begun rolling out Gemini for Home in the US to English-set Nest speakers and displays from the past decade through the Google Home Early Access program. The upgrade adds more natural voice commands for media, smart-home control, and household tasks, plus a Gemini Live mode that drops the...
