Sony announced details of its forthcoming Xperia smartphone models, highlighting advanced image capture capabilities on its top tier offering and focusing on the two-day battery life of a release for the cheaper end of the market.
In a new study, researchers were able to improve the low-quality images produced by a metalens. These types of ultra-thin cameras have the advantage of being small, but typically have poor image quality. That may be changing. [Read More]
Researchers have leveraged deep learning techniques to enhance the image quality of a metalens camera. The new approach uses artificial intelligence to turn low-quality images into high-quality ones, which could make these cameras viable for a multitude of imaging tasks including intricate microscopy applications and mobile devices.
Meta believes that AI-powered earphones are the future of wearable technology, and reportedly, the company is working on "Camerabuds" earphones with cameras for advanced AI features.
Meta is developing "Camerabuds," AI-powered headphones with integrated cameras. Despite early development challenges, the project aims to enhance wearable technology, joining Meta's Quest Pro and Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Artificial intelligence continues to grow rapidly, but it's still not perfect. Look no further than Google's I/O keynote from this week where it showed off its AI model Gemini giving a terrible answer to a struggling photographer. [Read More]
It’s no secret that Meta is eager to prove itself as an AI company, and it might be eyeing a new hardware project to help it get there. The company is in the early stages of “exploring” designs for AI-enabled headphones, according to a new report in The Information. The company is reportedly calling it “Camerabuds,” because the headphones or earbuds (the company is considering both designs) would have two outward-facing cameras that would be able to detect the wearer’s surroundings and power...
Google is teasing an intriguing new AI feature one day ahead of its I/O developer conference. The company shared a brief video on X that appears to show a new camera-powered AI feature that’s able to recognize what’s in the frame in real time. The video, which is labeled as a “prototype,” shows what appears […]
Ahead of its much-anticipated annual I/O event, Google released a teaser video on X showing off some new multimodal AI functionality that is sure to have the makers of Rabbit's R1 quaking in their boots.Also: What to expect from Google I/O 2024: Android 15, Gemini, Wear OS, and moreIn the video, the user holds up their (Android) phone's camera to the I/O stage and asks, "What do you think is happening here?" Google's AI model Gemini responds, "It looks like people are setting up for a large...
Google is teasing an intriguing new AI feature one day ahead of its I/O developer conference. The company shared a brief video on X that appears to show a new camera-powered AI feature that’s able to recognize what’s in the frame in real time. The video, which is labeled as a “prototype,” shows what appears to be a Pixel device with the camera open viewing the keynote stage at I/O. The person holding the camera asks, “hey, what do you think is happening here?” A voice replies that “it looks like...
When Google first showcased its Duplex voice assistant technology at its developer conference in 2018, it was both impressive and concerning. Today, at I/O 2024, the company may be bringing up those same reactions again, this time by showing off another application of its AI smarts with something called Project Astra. The company couldn't even wait till its keynote today to tease Project Astra, posting a video to its social media of a camera-based AI app yesterday. At its keynote today, though,...
OpenAI revealed a major update to its large language model this week with the launch of ChatGPT-4o Google confirmed the launch of Gemini for Workspace, integrating its AI model into Google’s enterprise suite Choise.ai launched an AI-powered layer 2 blockchain for enterprises AI announcements have come thick and fast this week, with Google and OpenAI […]