After Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence features at its I/O developers conference, the Evening Standard’s Tech Reporter Simon Hunt tells Tech & Science Daily how significant the new AI announcements are.
The tech giant announced new tools for things like Sheets and Docs (its version of Excel and Word) and a function that lets Android users create their own phone background by describing what they want to see.
Google also revealed a feature for searching online called ‘AI snapshots’ which adds more context to searches, and offers to answer follow up questions on the same subject.
US fast-food chain Wendy’s is going to start using Google’s AI technology to take drive-thru orders.
The process is going to be trialled at one of its restaurants in Columbus, Ohio in June.
The BBC’s managing director of Eurovision has said their preparations for a potential Russian cyberattack are in a ‘really good place’.
The event was meant to be held in Ukraine, but was moved to the UK because of Russia’s invasion, prompting fears of possible interference.
A chance discovery at a museum in Oxfordshire has led experts to believe Pliosaurs, marine reptiles from the late Jurassic period, may have grown to twice the size of a killer whale.
University of Portsmouth palaeontologists believe a species of Pliosaur potentially grew 14.4 metres long.
And the rest
Collection of genome sequences hails new era in scientific research, Uber set to launch flight bookings in the UK, the breathalyser that can sniff out diseases in real-time, and the dating app which lets an AI bot chat to potential matches on your behalf.
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