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Read moreGoogle’s Sergey Brin: ‘I made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass’
Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he “made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass” during an onstage interview at Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday. Brin was a surprise addition to an interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis conducted by Big Technology Podcast’s Alex Kantrowitz. Brin went on to say
Read moreThe latest Google Gemma AI model can run on phones
Google’s family of “open” AI models, Gemma, is growing. During Google I/O 2025 on Tuesday, Google took the wraps off Gemma 3n, a model designed to run “smoothly” on phones, laptops, and tablets. Available in preview starting Tuesday, Gemma 3n can handle audio, text, images, and videos, according to Google.
Read moreGoogle commits $150M to develop AI glasses with Warby Parker
Google says it will commit up to $150 million to the consumer eyewear company Warby Parker to jointly develop AI-powered smart glasses based on Android XR, the companies said on Tuesday during Google I/O 2025. Google has already committed $75 million to Warby Parker’s product development and commercialization costs, the
Read moreAmanda Scales, a Musk hire who helped lead DOGE, has returned to xAI
Amanda Scales, the former xAI HR exec who helped lead billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative while working at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, recently returned to xAI, according to The New York Times. Scales used to work on talent acquisition at xAI. Since April, she’s worked
Read moreMusk says Tesla’s self-driving tests will be geofenced to ‘the safest’ parts of Austin
The first test of Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, Texas next month will initially be limited to specific areas the company deems “the safest,” CEO Elon Musk told CNBC in an interview Tuesday. Tesla’s cars are “not going to take intersections unless we are highly confident [they’re] going to
Read moreLast Week: Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions AI
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Read moreMultiplying a matrix by its transpose
An earlier post claimed that there practical advantages to partitioning a matrix, thinking of the matrix as a matrix of matrices. This post will give an example. Let M be a square matrix and suppose we need to multiply M by its transpose MT. We can compute this product faster than
Read moreA bit-twiddling marvel
Pop quiz: what does the following code do? bool is_leap_year_fast(uint32_t y) { return ((y * 1073750999) & 3221352463) <= 126976; } It determines whether the year y is a leap year in the Gregorian calendar, of course. :) It’s very efficient, though I don’t image that would ever matter. But
Read moreCEO Update: Exploration and experimentation for bold evolution
As we envision what the ideal future version of Stack Overflow looks like, we’re committed to engaging with our community.
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