A quartet of General Motors electric vehicles line the garage of a sleek Beverly Hills mansion now occupying a lot once housing Dean Martin’s digs. It’s against this backdrop of old making way for the new that subsidiary GM Energy last week demonstrated its new vehicle-to-home bidirectional (V2H) charging technology. Or in simpler terms, a system enabling EVs and homes to power one another.
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I’ve tried virtually every major messenger app over the years, but my favorite has always been Apple’s Messages. No, I’m not a blue bubble snob. I’ll happily use different messaging apps with different friends. But I’ve always preferred Apple’s Messages because of its clean, minimalist design. Still, many of my friends prefer WhatsApp, and most businesses that offer messenger-based support us
Google showed off some new skills in its Gemini AI chatbot at Tuesday’s I/O developer event, and previewed a new Gemini assistant that talks to you like a human assistant.
The AI advancements are powered by Google DeepMind’s Gemini Pro 1.5 model, which strikes a balance between performance and speed.
In the short term, subscribers to the Gemini Advanced service tier will get a chatbot that can digest and remember far more information (and more than any other c
Google said at its I/O developer event Tuesday that it’s rolling out its AI-native search to all users for the first time. Previously, users could try Google’s chatbot-based search (then called “Search Generative Experience” (SGE)) by opting into the experience in Google Labs. Now AI search will become available to all users searching for certain subjects or products.
Unlike traditional Google search, AI search returns a custom-built bundle of text and links—called “AI Overv
Meta Platforms will discontinue its work-focused Workplace app as the company shifts its focus on building artificial intelligence and metaverse technologies, the Facebook parent said on Tuesday.
Workplace will be shuttered starting June 2026
The chief of Amazon.com’s wildly profitable Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit will step down next month after a three-year term.
Adam Selipsky, 57, who is also a member of Amazon’s team advising CEO Andy Jassy, will leave the company on June 3, according to an Amazon statement Tuesday. He w
I love my job, but it comes with an unsettling occupational hazard: editing stories about technologies that threaten my own professional existence.
Such was the experience of working on senior editor Mark Sullivan’s story on Perplexity, one of the buzziest startups in Silicon Valley. Perplexity makes an AI search tool that yields impressively detailed and well-organized answers. It’s popular with tech-world insiders and is catching on with normies, too. The company is a David to Go
Hinge’s latest product rollout represents a big bet on quality over quantity.
The Match Group-owned dating giant is testing a new feature that requires singles with eight or more unanswered messages to either reply to a match or end a conversation before they can make any new connections. This means users with a backlog of conversations won’t be able to send new likes or accept matches from new suitors.
U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into the performance of Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving vehicles after reports of its robotaxis exhibiting driving behavior that potentially violated traffic safety laws.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444