Computer & Information Technology

08 Jan 25

Applications are now open for Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Health

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Google’s work in health is centered around advancing healthcare through AI. And that includes supporting healthtech entrepreneurs through programs like Google for Startu…

08 Jan 25

Circular seeks redemption with new smart ring that could outshine Oura

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French upstart Circular has unveiled a fresh challenge to Oura — the current lord of the smart rings. Circular has just released a new smart ring that offers two key advantages over Oura, which currently dominates the global market for the trendy wearables, which monitor your health metrics and display…

07 Jan 25

5 ways to search what you see with Google Lens

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Google Lens uses AI to help you search the world around you. Here’s how to make the most of it.

07 Jan 25

How can Dutch battery startups win big? Focus on supply chain ‘pinch points,’ says CEO

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Dutch battery startups must innovate at “critical pinch points” in the supply chain to compete globally, says Kevin Brundish, CEO of Eindhoven-based battery company LionVolt. The comments come at a tough time for Europe’s battery sector, which has been left reeling following the recent collapse of Northvolt. The Swedish startup’s…

07 Jan 25

Inside the AI startup refining Hollywood — one f-bomb at a time

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Hollywood is infamous for celebrity excess, but Tinseltown strictly controls one scandalous indulgence: swearing. Director Scott Mann encountered these constraints after shooting the thriller Fall. Movie giant Lionsgate — best-known for the John Wick, Saw, and Hunger Games franchises — wanted to release the film in the US. But the…

06 Jan 25

Swave, the startup building true holographic smart glasses, bags €27M

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In the 1977 Star Wars film A New Hope, there’s an iconic scene where the beloved droid R2-D2 casts a beam of light to create a hologram of Princess Leia pleading for the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sadly, almost 50 years on, we’re not much closer to the true holograms…

06 Jan 25

Here’s what’s new with Google TV at CES.

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At this year's CES, we shared a preview of new AI capabilities for Google TV that use our Gemini models to make interacting with your TV more intuitive and helpful.…

January 2, 2025
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Michael Frank has spent his career as an academic researcher working over three decades in a very peculiar niche of computer engineering. According to Frank, that peculiar niche’s time has finally come. “I decided earlier this year that it was the right time to try to commercialize this stuff,” Frank…

December 28, 2024
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Users of Google’s Chrome browser can rest easy knowing that their surfing is secure, thanks in part to cryptographer Joppe Bos. He’s coauthor of a quantum-secure encryption algorithm that was adopted as a standard by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in August and is already being…

December 26, 2024
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This year, IEEE Spectrum readers had a keen interest in all things software: What’s going on in the tumultuous world of open-source, why the sheer size of code is causing security vulnerabilities, and how we need to take seriously the energy costs of inefficient code. The ever-growing presence of artificial…

Applications are now open for Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Health

Circular seeks redemption with new smart ring that could outshine Oura

5 ways to search what you see with Google Lens

How can Dutch battery startups win big? Focus on supply chain ‘pinch points,’ says CEO

Inside the AI startup refining Hollywood — one f-bomb at a time

Swave, the startup building true holographic smart glasses, bags €27M

Here’s what’s new with Google TV at CES.

Reversible Computing Escapes the Lab in 2025

This Cryptographer Helps Quantum-Proof the Internet

The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2024

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

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This MRI Can Run on Batteries

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