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Officials from last night’s Los Angeles Lakers-Phoenix Suns game have confirmed the controversial timeout call that helped punch L.A.’s ticket to the In-Season Tournament semifinal.

New York Rangers winger Barclay Goodrow left Tuesday night’s game against the Ottawa Senators after sustaining an “upper-body injury,” as head coach Peter Laviolette describes it.

COMMENT: There are dark clouds looming over Man Utd ahead of their Premier League clash with Chelsea tonight at Old Trafford.

This class was the largest the MBA has seen since the pandemic, and the organization was excited to celebrate their achievements.

The Crown newcomer Meg Bellamy tells VF about playing Kate Middleton, recreating that iconic sheer fashion-show moment, and leaving her old day job behind.

The ones that have been published, that is... *major side eye.*

Google announced the release of Gemini, its most powerful AI model yet. Its natively multimodal and passes OpenAI's GPT-4 on major benchmarks. Here's how and when you can test it out.

Don't let the rando hippies in the house!

Boris Eldagsen

“Promptography” is what Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen calls his creative process. He inputs highly specific and deliberate text prompts into generative AI programs like DALL-E or Midjourney and tweaks their outputs repeatedly to create thought-provoking photographs — or at least, what look like photographs. His work is so convincing that he fooled Sony into giving him a photography award, only to decline the honor and reveal that his work was made using AI.

The Pixel 8 Pro is the first Gemini-capable phone — but it won’t be the last. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

Gemini may be the biggest, most powerful large language model, or LLM, Google has ever developed, but it’s better suited to running in data centers than on your phone. With Gemini Nano, though, the company is trying to split the difference: it built a reduced version of its flagship LLM that can run locally and offline on your device. Well, a device, anyway. The Pixel 8 Pro is the only Nano-compatible phone so far... Читать дальше...

Bard has access to Google’s apps and now its best large language model, too. | Image: Google

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever, Google’s Bard has been something of an afterthought. The chatbot has steadily gained new features, including access to your data across other Google products, but its answers and information have rarely seemed to rival what you get from ChatGPT and other bots using GPT-3 and GPT-4.

Gemini was designed from the beginning to be about much more than just text. | Image: Google

Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade. Now, a year into the AI era brought on by ChatGPT, it’s finally making a big move.

After a disappointing launch, Google hopes its new Gemini AI model can improve the capabilities of its AI assistant Bard and help it compete with leading chatbots like ChatGPT.

Google has unveiled its most advanced AI model yet, Gemini, directly taking on OpenAI in an escalating battle for dominance in artificial intelligence capabilities.

Online dating and dating apps have turned simple swipes into meet-cutes. However, these meetings become less cute when there are family members involved.

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Michael Chandler finds himself in an awkward position when it comes to UFC 296’s matchup between Ian Machado Garry and Vicente Luque.

Take a look at the matchups you'll be able to watch from home here.

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The Winter Meetings haven’t had the fireworks we all hoped for.

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MLB news roundup

Happy Wednesday, Athletics Nation!

There is no shortage of disappointment among A’s fans concerning the results of yesterday’s Draft lottery. The A’s had the worst record in MLB this year, but only drew the fourth pick in the lottery. That was a disappointing result, but not really all that unlucky.

I was unable to find a 2024 Draft lottery odds chart that accounts for the Nationals’ ineligibility due to their revenue “sharer” status... Читать дальше...

Lil Yachty, Jim Jones, DJ Clark Kent, Kristen Noel Crawley and Joe La Puma discuss the top ten sneakers of the year at ComplexCon 2023 in Long Beach. See where

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4. Roundup: Here's What The Critics Think Of Ubisoft's 'Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora'  Pure Xbox
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The University of Florida and Georgetown University head these lists from the WSJ/College Pulse rankings

2023 was supposed to be the year that China turned things around. Instead, the opposite happened.

The search giant’s algorithm aims to improve the audio and video capabilities of the Bard chatbot.

EXCLUSIVE: Immersive virtual reality stand-up series Surrounded is to return for a second season next month with Jack Whitehall, Marlon Wayans and Mae Martin among the comics lined up. The six-part series will debut via the Meta Horizon Worlds VR online video game platform, with episodes starting from December 29, including a festival holiday special […]