Google Wallet launches new age and identity verification features (ZK proofs)
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It’s now easier to prove age and identity with Google Wallet

Learn more about new Google Wallet updates, including new ways to use your digital ID for age and identity verification.

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NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages

Learn more about NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews feature and its expansion to more than 50 languages.

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Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data
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Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data.

Kaggle is hosting Wikimedia Enterprise's beta release of structured data in both French and English. Kaggle is home to a vast trove of open and accessible data, with more than 461,000 freely accessible datasets. Researchers, students and machine learning practitioners use this data to explore, train, learn and compete in Kaggle competitions.The Wikimedia Foundation is the organization that manages the data from wikipedia.org, the internet’s free encyclopedia. This data documents and describes the world in real time, with a foundational commitment to open access to data and information.Wikipedia’s structured dataset, hosted on Kaggle, is formatted specifically for machine learning, making it ideal for data science, training and development. This collaboration helps researchers and developers have confidence in the quality and provenance of the data.We’re excited to see what people build.

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Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2
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Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

You can now generate videos in Gemini, powered by Veo 2.

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Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental.

Gemini Advanced subscribers can now use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, the world’s most capable AI model according to industry reasoning benchmarks and Chatbot Arena.Gemini Deep Research is your personal AI research assistant, and with our most intelligent model, it’s even better at every step of the research process. In our testing, raters preferred the reports generated by Gemini Deep Research powered by 2.5 Pro over other leading deep research providers by more than a 2-to-1 margin.Users testing Deep Research on our latest model are reporting a noticeable improvement in analytical reasoning, information synthesis and generating even more insightful research reports. Gemini Advanced users can access it across the web, Android and iOS to generate detailed, easy-to-read reports on just about any research topic, saving hours of time. And don’t forget to try out our Audio Overviews feature where you can turn your report into a podcast-style conversation to hear on the go. Learn more on our website, and try it now by selecting Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) from the drop down and tapping “Deep Research” in the prompt bar.

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How we built the new family of Gemini Robotics models

Robots powered by Gemini Robotics models can learn complex actions like preparing salads and even folding an origami fox.

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All Estimations Are Wrong, But None Are Useful

If you're working in a team using the Scrum framework, you use story points to estimate effort on your stories, tasks, etc.

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The US is on an egg hunt in Europe to ease prices at home

The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt. It's seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs. European industry groups say Denmark, Germany, Italy and Poland are among the nations the U.S. Department of Agriculture approached. Many officials in Europe say the import tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed or threatened to impose on his nation’s top trading partners wouldn't preclude their sharing eggs. A bigger obstacle is U.S. food safety regulations that require fresh eggs to be sanitized before they reach shoppers. In the European Union, the standards call for Grade A eggs to be sold unwashed.

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https://www.alojapan.com/1227016/a-new-google-arts-culture-exhibit-focuses-on-japans-forests/ A new Google Arts & Culture exhibit focuses on Japan’s forests #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #news #None Google Arts & Culture has launched Shinrin Yoku, a new online hub in collaboration with the Japanese Ministry of Environment that explores the serene heart of Japan’s forests and their profound cultural significance. Named after the Japanese term for “forest bathing,” Shinrin Yoku features more than 50 expertly curated exhibits. In o…
A new Google Arts & Culture exhibit focuses on Japan’s forests

Google Arts & Culture has launched Shinrin Yoku, a new online hub in collaboration with the Japanese Ministry of Environment that explores the serene heart of Japan's forests and their profound cultural significance.Named after the Japanese term for 'forest bathing,' Shinrin Yoku features more than 50 expertly curated exhibits. In one, a local guide offers an introduction to the Shinrin Yoku practice, including an explanation of how spending time in Japanese forests can affect the five senses. Another exhibit allows you to immerse yourself in five different sound baths recorded in Japanese woodlands. Still others let you learn how experts

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Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model

Gemini 2.5 is our most intelligent AI model, now with thinking.

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