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Your smartphone just became a life-saving tool for millions more people around the world. Google's Android earthquake detection system, which has already sent over a billion alerts since 2021, is now protecting communities in more than 200 regions.
Google just sent its artificial intelligence chips into orbit to test whether data centers could one day run cleaner and more sustainably from space. The experimental satellite, Project Suncatcher, lifted off October 1st and could help solve AI's growing energy problem.
Google Research developed PhotoScan, an AI tool that analyzes smartphone selfies to estimate body fat more accurately than fitness trackers. The breakthrough could make professional-grade health insights accessible to anyone with a camera phone.
Google is asking permission to release millions of sterile male mosquitoes in California and Florida to fight West Nile virus and encephalitis. The innovative approach uses bacteria to prevent disease-carrying mosquitoes from reproducing, with no genetic modification required.
Google's new AI assistant for scientists, published in Nature, writes expert-level code that's already forecasting flu outbreaks and tracking carbon emissions with groundbreaking accuracy. The tool that helped build it is now available to researchers worldwide.
Google just launched two breakthrough AI tools that make creating music easier and running AI systems cheaper. The advances could reshape how we make media and power artificial intelligence.