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Google has begun the process of rolling out Android 15, the latest version of its mobile operating system, beginning with Pixel devices. Specifically, the company has released the Android 15 source code and made it available at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). While the latest major release will be available on supported Pixel devices in “coming weeks”, access will ...

Google is rebranding TensorFlow Lite to LiteRT (as in “lite runtime”). This lets you deploy ML and AI models on Android, iOS, and embedded devices. Basically, for on-device AI at the Edge. Google writes about the name change for the runtime that supports models other than those solely authored with TensorFlow: “Since its debut in 2017, TFLite has enabled developers ...

Google has announced the second beta of Android 15, the next major version of Android, which is due for official release in the autumn. A number of features for the planned release have been highlighted by Google, including the use of Private Spaces, improved large screen multitasking, Picture-in-Picture (PiP) changes, security measures to make intents safer, and some new fonts ...

AST SpaceMobile, which aims to build a space-based cellular broadband network accessible by everyday smartphones, has announced strategic investment from AT&T, Google and Vodafone. The goal is for its in-orbit technology to eliminate cellular connectivity gaps around the world. In addition to the $155 million invested by the companies, AST SpaceMobile plans to draw up to $51.5 million from the ...

There's TSMC expecting industry growth, an old story of state investment in R&D, Google planning a $1bn UK data centre for AI, a MEMS sensor using Triphibian technology, and Intel back on top of the semiconductor revenue charts...

Google has announced a $1 billion investment in a new UK data centre, sited in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. The 33-acre site “will bring crucial compute capacity to businesses across the UK” says Google, “supporting AI innovation and helping to ensure reliable digital services to Google Cloud customers and Google users in the UK and abroad”. It will “create construction and ...

Qualcomm is to create RISC-V based silicon for wearables, working with Google to optimise it for Google’s Wear OS. “We are excited to extend our work with Qualcomm Technologies and bring a RISC-V wearable solution to market,” said Google general manager Bjorn Kilburn. Leading up to this, the companies will continue to invest in Snapdragon Wear platforms for the Wear ...

Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – to version 3.13. The latest release sees performance improvements to its Impeller graphics renderer, APIs for foldable devices (for example, reporting the physical size, the device pixel ratio, and the refresh rate of the display), supporting wide-gamut ...

Google is extending its MediaPipe on-device machine learning system to support the Raspberry Pi, enabling – for example – audio classification, face landmark detection, and natural language processing tasks. Back in May, Google initially released MediaPipe for Android, web, and Python (‘MediaPipe Solutions for On-Device Machine Learning’, to give it its full name). The tools aim to provide “no-code to ...

Just to flag this one: Google is offering some free AI training for everyone in the UK. Maybe perfect timing if you want to investigate machine learning or artificial intelligence further.