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Pixel 100x Pro Res Zoom

I’ve been fooling around with the new Pixel 10 Pro for the last week (My 10-day Android trial has been a disaster so I am returning it next week for the new iPhone.) Here is a comparison of photos at 100x zoom using Google’s Pro Res Zoom, which works on some sort of artificial intelligenceContinueContinue reading “Pixel 100x Pro Res Zoom”

Google’s AI Energy Usage?

We (or rather They) did the math There’s been a lot of debate around the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, particularly the electricity, water, and carbon involved in running large language models. New research shared by Google suggests that, at least for its Gemini models, the per-prompt footprint is much smaller than many have assumed. According toContinueContinue reading “Google’s AI Energy Usage?”