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International Business Machines and Red Hat have committed $5 billion to establish a new model for open-source software, aiming to secure software supply chains for enterprises. Under the new project, ...

Joy Behar says she will step away from "The View" panel for several weeks, confirming an extended hiatus during a Tuesday, May 26, episode of the ABC daytime show's “Behind the Table” podcast. Behar, ...

China has deployed over 100 vessels in the waters surrounding Taiwan in the week after President Donald Trump's Beijing summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the secretary general of Taiwan's ...

The spatial computing experience isn't as immersive as an XR headset, but maybe it doesn't need to be. Reading time 4 minutes I came to Google I/O 2026 to try out Google and Xreal’s “Project Aura” XR ...

Google's annual I/O showcase focused heavily on AI news, but the event also contained some exciting developments in the XR glasses front. Namely, Xreal used the event as a way to show off Project Aura ...

First announced at Google I/O 2025, Google and Xreal returned to the developer conference to announce that their jointly created “Project Aura” XR smart glasses are real and coming soon. Google didn’t ...

Google just announced its world-exploring game, Project Genie, is getting a new feature that drops you in real-world locations, like your own street. Project Genie rolled out at the beginning of this ...

With a new integration, you can take the generative capabilities of Project Genie and combine them with the vast data of Maps' Street View to anchor the AI in reality. Macy is a writer on the AI Team.

Project Genie is rolling out today for all adult Google AI Ultra subscribers across the globe, following its debut in the United States this January. The service is also getting a new Street View ...

We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of Paris to see if we booked a hotel in a cool ...

Google has updated its experimental Project Genie AI model to incorporate real-world imagery from Google Maps’ Street View, allowing users to navigate, style, and interact with actual US locations.