Project Astra began as an ambitious research project designed to bolster Google's AI efforts when it was first announced last year. Now, it's a product you can actually use as Gemini Live on millions ...

Move over Google Assistant; Google has a brand new personal AI assistant that it's much cooler and more useful than anything it did before. It's called Project Astra, and it's powered by Google's ...

Google unveiled Project Astra last year at I/O, showing off nascent AI technology that allows mobile users to talk to Google's AI in real time using conversational language. You might ask the AI to ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

To close out 2024, Google announced Gemini 2.0, it’s newest version of its AI model that will basically power all of its AI endeavors going forward. As a part of the announcement, Google showed off a ...

The Samsung Galaxy S25 will be the first family of phones to include Google's Project Astra, the companies announced Wednesday at Samsung's Unpacked 2025 event. This gives the phone the ability to ...

Few tech-industry traditions are as time-honored as vaporware: stuff that gets publicly demoed well before it’s ready to ship. In some cases, the companies in question are just slower to finish their ...

Google is slowly peeling back the curtain on its vision to, one day, sell you glasses with augmented reality and multimodal AI capabilities. The company’s plans for those glasses, however, are still ...