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Google’s new quantum chip is 1.05 million septillion times faster than today’s fastest supercomputers
- Google has developed a quantum chip that incorporates 105 qubits capable of performing tasks in under five minutes that would take today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years – equivalent to over one million septillion times faster.
- The Willow chip is designed for quantum error correction and is capable of extending into a 7x7 grid while still halving the error rate with each expansion. The system also outlives and corrects physical qubit errors, which allows the technology to integrate a high degree of error correction.
- The chip successfully completed a test of quantum systems’ random circuit sampling (RCS) benchmark, assessing whether a quantum computer can perform tasks impossible for classical systems.
- The implications for quantum computing are significant, bringing the dream of running large scale algorithms closer to commercial application. This offers new frontiers for both science and industry.
- The next milestone is to achieve beyond classical computer computation relevant to real-world applications, where quantum systems have strong potential in drug discovery, material science, energy, climate change mitigation, artificial intelligence and more.
- The Willow chip is a promising foundation for further research and development in the quantum computing field. The development of software and educational resources have been made available for open-source exploration of this evolving field.
- The chip incorporates 105 qubits of the highest quality performance across key benchmarks including quantum error correction and random circuit sampling.
- Researchers and developers are invited to explore the Willow chip and quantum computing field boldly to contribute to the drive toward transformative applications in quantum computing.
- Quantum computing's potential spans various domains including drug discovery, material science, and energy. By improving memory, computational costs could drop significantly.
- Quantum computing's ability to solve complex problems could amplify the potential of AI by accessing quantum algorithms that optimise learning architectures and model quantum effects that could create efficient resource allocation and climate change solutions.
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Australia To ‘Charge’ Tech Firms For News Content, After Meta Ends Licensing Deal
- The Australian government plans to introduce a levy on social media firms and search engines to force them to pay publishers for journalism and news content.
- This comes after Facebook parent Meta Platforms ended its licensing deal with the Australian government.
- Australia passed the Media Bargaining Law in February 2021 to set fees that tech companies have to pay media outlets for sharing news links.
- The proposed amendments would require social media platforms and search engines earning more than $250m in revenues from Australia to pay a 'charge', which can be offset against payments to publishers.
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YouTube TV is hiking prices again after denying “erroneous” report days ago
- YouTube TV is increasing prices again, raising the Base Plan from $73 to $83 per month starting January 13, 2025.
- Google cited the rising cost of content and their investments in service quality as reasons for the price hike.
- Customers are informed that they can pause or cancel their subscription in their Settings.
- Current trials and promotions will be honored and remain unchanged.
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Yes, you’ll be able to game on Samsung and Google’s Android XR headset
- Google’s Android XR platform will support gaming and feature controller APIs.
- Samsung’s Project Moohan VR headset will also ship with controllers that will help with gaming.
- Developers will be able to easily port existing apps and games to Android XR with some optimization work.
- The Android XR platform embraces gaming use cases and supports apps and games on the Google Play Store.
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I tried out Android XR, Google’s latest attempt to take on Meta and Apple
- Google has introduced Android XR, their latest attempt at extended reality (XR) technology.
- The operating system incorporates Gemini AI, which helps the new OS reach a higher range of use cases for the company.
- Samsung's Project Moohan VR headset is a direct competitor to the Apple Vision Pro VR headset and has impressed users with its sharp and clear images.
- One of the highlights of Android XR system is the ability to effectively spatialize flat footage and generate depth perception for the viewers.
- Android XR is designed to adapt to the UI and functionality of the hardware's capability to provide the appropriate interface to users. It offloads processing workloads to a connected smartphone which carries out the processing and streams the pixels to the glasses for viewing.
- The Gemini AI is the most interesting aspect of the Android XR software platform which has eye tracking that can be controlled through calibration and supports ARCore and AR search natively.
- The multimodal control, consisting of hand movements, a physical desk equipped with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and voice command control, allows for a diverse range of controls.
- Lastly, Android XR represents a renewed commitment by Google to create a new operating system that can drive headsets, glasses, and other XR form factors going forward.
- Google has had its fair shot at VR, but Android XR represents a unique vision that can possibly rival competitors like Apple and Meta in the XR market.
- With Meta already announcing its plans to open up its Horizon OS ecosystem, the year 2022 could see a flurry of activity in the XR headset market.
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Android XR smart glasses are coming, but you’re in for a wait
- Google has confirmed that smart glasses powered by the Android XR platform would be coming “later.”
- The company said it chose to launch a headset first as it offers more immersion.
- We’re also guessing that a headset might be less of a risk than smart glasses.
- Google has just announced its Android XR platform, and the first product will be a Samsung-designed headset called “Project Moohan.”
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TechCrunch
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Google announces Android XR platform, will launch first on Samsung’s Project Moohan device
- Google announced the launch of Android XR, a new Android-based XR platform.
- The platform supports app development for headsets and glasses.
- The first developer preview of Android XR is available and supports existing tools.
- The Samsung-built Project Moohan headset will be the first device to launch with Android XR.
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Google wants to sell those Project Astra AR glasses some day, but it won’t be today
- Google plans to release its prototype glasses, armed with AI and AR capabilities, to a small set of selected users for real-world testing. The Project Astra prototype glasses would run on Android XR, Google’s new operating system for vision-based computing. Google wants glasses to be the “next generation of computing”. Google still has nothing concrete to share about the actual product or when it will be released. Google also shared a new demo showing how its prototype glasses can use Project Astra and AR technology. Google has an edge with Project Astra which it is launching as an app to a few beta testers soon. Using Project Astra on your phone is impressive, and it’s likely a signal of what’s coming for AI apps.
- The Google’s prototype glasses is essentially vaporware and it seems Google has no clear timeline for a consumer launch of this prototype. It is now starting to let hardware makers and developers build different kinds of glasses, headsets, and experiences around Android XR. Project Astra works by streaming pictures of your surroundings, one frame per second, into an AI model for real-time processing. While that’s happening, it also processes your voice as you speak. Some members of Google DeepMind also showed how Astra could read your phone screen. OpenAI has also demoed GPT-4o’s vision capabilities, which are similar to Project Astra and also have been teased to release soon. It might take them a while to make that a reality.
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Introducing Android XR SDK Developer Preview
- Google has released Android's extended reality developer kit, the Android XR SDK. Using familiar Android APIs and tools, it enables developers to create augmented and virtual reality apps for headsets and glasses. Most Android apps will be automatically offered up in an extended reality format on the Play Store, which is also to be introduced shortly. The XR SDK is built on existing app development foundations and already familiar libraries, including Jetpack Compose, Material Design for XR, and ARCore for Jetpack XR.
- As well as being able to put users inside immersive virtual worlds or bring AR capabilities to native apps, the XR SDK also offers features such as natural, multimodal interaction and spatialised 3D panels and audio. New tools include browser support from Chrome for Android XR's Web XR standard, while native languages C/C++ support OpenXR 1.1.
- Google has also partnered with Unity to natively integrate their real-time 3D engine with Android XR starting with Unity 6, adding Android XR support to packages such as OpenXR, AR Foundation, XR Interaction Toolkit, XR Hands, and XR Composition Layers. Chrome on Android XR also supports WebXR features including depth maps allowing virtual objects to interact with real-world surfaces.
- The XR SDK, which is oriented around open standards and formats such as glTF 2.0 for 3D models and OpenEXR for HDR environments, is available now via developer.android.com/develop/xr.
- Android developers can also get access to prerelease hardware by filling out a form to participate in an Android XR Developer Bootcamp.
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Another YouTube TV price increase means its even closer to just being cable
- YouTube TV is increasing its price to $82.99 monthly for the base plan.
- The price hike is effective immediately for new users, while it goes into effect starting January 13, 2025, for existing subscribers.
- Google cites the rising cost of content as the reason for the increase.
- YouTube TV launched in 2017 at $34.99 per month and has since increased its prices multiple times.
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Medium
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Don’t Miss Out: 5 Notebook LLM Features You Need to Know About
- Notebook LLM is a tool that helps automate data cleaning, analysis, and visualization, saving time and allowing for deeper insights.
- Features include code assistance and debugging, natural language data querying, automated visualization creation, document summarization and drafting, and interactive workflow automation.
- It helps create bug-free scripts, optimized algorithms, in-depth data insights, polished presentations and dashboards, concise summaries, and time-efficient content generation.
- Notebook LLM is a gateway to unlocking potential and focusing on making an impact, turning time-consuming tasks into opportunities for innovation.
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YouTube TV Raises Price Yet Again, This Time to $82.99 in January
- YouTube TV has confirmed another price increase, raising the monthly subscription from $72.99 to $82.99.
- The new price is effective from December 12 for new customers, and from January 13 for current customers.
- The price increase is due to the rising cost of content, according to YouTube TV.
- YouTube TV will continue to offer 100+ channels, unlimited DVR storage, up to 6 accounts per household, and 3 concurrent streams.
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Google Crushes ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ With Just 1 Day of Gemini 2
- Google is in the spotlight with buzz surrounding the release of the Gemini 2 AI model.
- OpenAI team is experiencing trouble with Sora and ChatGPT's website experiencing server issues.
- Google has released the Multimodal Live API, a real-time audio and video-streaming input system.
- OpenAI is expected to launch the advanced voice mode (AVM) soon with vision capabilities.
- Google launched Project Mariner, an AI agent that can browse and reason with all web elements on your screen.
- Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis says the company’s long-term goal for Astra is to build an assistant that has infinite memory.
- Microsoft is also working on AI with infinite memory capability, which is expected to be launched in 2025.
- Google has released its sixth-generation tensor processing unit, Trillium, and an AI research assistant feature in Gemini Advanced called 'Deep Research'.
- OpenAI is set to drop something big, possibly the AGI, at the end of the ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ event.
- OpenAI and Google have been leading AI research and models in the industry.
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Call is Being Routed by Google Voice: Everything Need to Know
- Google Voice is a telecommunications service provided by Google that offers users a virtual phone number.
- It allows users to make and receive calls, send text messages, and manage voicemail.
- Key features include call forwarding, voicemail transcription, call screening, custom greetings, SMS integration, and international calling.
- Google Voice helps centralize multiple phone numbers into one for streamlined communication.
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