You can try Microsoft’s free AI skills training for two more weeks, and I recommend you do
jewhyte/Getty Images I know you’ve heard of gamification, but have you ever heard of festification? That’s what Microsoft did last ...
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Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
The pair of climate researchers from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, skied down to this research plot ...
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Google offers AI certification for business leaders now – and the training is free
Getty Images/400tmax As AI becomes an increasingly used tool by organizations across all industries, studies show that employees’ expectations of ...
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The Download: Taking the temperature of snow, and the future of privacy
The Sierra’s frozen reservoir provides about a third of California’s water and most of what comes out of the faucets, ...
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Google is upgrading Android Auto in 5 useful ways – including a big one for voice inputs
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Gemini is hitting the road. According to Google, there are over 250 million cars that ...
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The world’s biggest space-based radar will measure Earth’s forests from orbit
These indirect systems rely on a combination of field sampling—foresters roaming among the trees to measure their height and diameter—and ...
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AI has grown beyond human knowledge, says Google’s DeepMind unit
worawit chutrakunwanit/Getty Images The world of artificial intelligence (AI) has recently been preoccupied with advancing generative AI beyond simple tests ...
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The Download: The US office that tracks foreign disinformation is being eliminated, and explaining vibe coding
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary ...
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Google reveals Gemini 2.5 Flash, its ‘most cost-efficient thinking model’
Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Just weeks after unveiling Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is on to its next top-performing model. On Thursday, ...
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Adapting for AI’s reasoning era
As AI systems that learn by mimicking the mechanisms of the human brain continue to advance, we’re witnessing an evolution ...
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