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US intelligence agencies not expecting China to invade Taiwan in 2027

US spy agencies says Chinese leadership still prefers to pursue unification with Taiwan 'without use of force'.

What is Solana Alpenglow? Developer Anza Proposes 'Largest' Consensus Change to SOL Network

“We believe that the release of Alpenglow will be a turning point for Solana,” developers wrote in a blog Monday.

Facets: An Open Source Visualization Tool for Machine Learning Training Data

Posted by James Wexler, Senior Software Engineer, Google Big Picture Team(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)Getting the best results out ...

Iran executes three convicted of killing police in recent pre-war unrest

Those executed were allegedly involved in the killing of two law enforcement personnel.

Motion Stills — Now on Android

Posted by Karthik Raveendran and Suril Shah, Software Engineers, Google ResearchLast year, we launched Motion Stills, an iOS app that stabilizes yo...

Luka and LeBron combine for 70 points as Lakers win 7th straight game

Doncic recorded his 11th 40-point game of the season as the Lakers beat the Rockets for the second time in three days.

JD Vance deflects gas price concerns with criticism of Biden

US Vice President JD Vance deflected concerns about high gas prices by criticising the Biden administration.

An Update to Open Images - Now with Bounding-Boxes

Posted by Vittorio Ferrari, Research Scientist, Machine PerceptionLast year we introduced Open Images, a collaborative release of ~9 million images...

Ben-Gvir visits gallows museum, threatens the death penalty

Israel’s National Security Minister has filmed himself in front of gallows, threatening the death penalty.

Attacks on GCC show ‘IRGC don’t think, they just push a button’

Khaled Batarfi, a Saudi political analyst, says Iran’s attacks on the GCC are irrational and create anger.

Google at CVPR 2017

Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Research CommunicationsFrom July 21-26, Honolulu, Hawaii hosts the 2017 Conference on Computer Vision ...

Asia’s stock markets dive after attacks on energy facilities in Qatar, Iran

Stocks tumble as attacks by Israel, Iran on critical energy infrastructure exacerbate fears for global energy supplies.

Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts

Posted by Sergey Levine, Faculty Advisor and Pierre Sermanet, Research Scientist, Google Brain TeamMachine learning can allow robots to acquire com...

Tehran rescue workers pull survivors from rubble

Video released by Iran's Red Crescent shows emergency services rescuing survivors of US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.

Could oil hit $200 a barrel? Analysts no longer think it is far-fetched

Prices are likely to rise substantially if the Strait of Hormuz remains, in effect, closed, market watchers say.

Inter Miami star Lionel Messi scores milestone 900th goal, joining Ronaldo

Lionel Messi joins Cristiano Ronaldo in the 900-goal club as Nashville eliminates Miami from CONCACAF Champions Cup.

Democrats walk out of heated Epstein files briefing

Democrats staged a walkout of an Epstein files briefing by US Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Three Palestinian women killed during Iranian missile attack in West Bank

Women killed, 13 injured when debris from a missile, or possibly a cluster bomblet, hit a beauty salon near Hebron.

NEAR Intents Activity Spikes as Zcash’s Zashi Wallet Taps It for Private Swaps

Zashi Swaps let users convert BTC, SOL, USDC and other supported assets directly into ZEC inside the app, where they can then be shielded.

So there I was, firing a megawatt plasma collider at work...

Posted by Ted Baltz, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Accelerated Science TeamWait, what? Why is Google interested in plasma physics?Google ...

Expressions in Virtual Reality

Posted by Steven Hickson, Software Engineering Intern, and Nick Dufour, Avneesh Sud, Software Engineers, Machine PerceptionRecently Google Machine ...

Google at ACL 2017

Posted by Christian Howard, Editor-in-Chief, Research Communications This week, Vancouver, Canada hosts the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association ...

Congressman from Ohio introduces bill to allow federal tax payments in bitcoin

Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) introduces a bitcoin bill to allow individuals and businesses to pay federal taxes in bitcoin, aiding Trump's bitcoin reserve

Harness the Power of Machine Learning in Your Browser with Deeplearn.js

Posted by Nikhil Thorat and Daniel Smilkov, Software Engineers, Google Big Picture TeamMachine learning (ML) has become an increasingly powerful to...

What to Expect at Consensus 2025

CoinDesk’s annual event kicks off this Wednesday in Toronto.

Making Visible Watermarks More Effective

Posted by Tali Dekel and Michael Rubinstein, Research ScientistsWhether you are a photographer, a marketing manager, or a regular Internet user, ch...

Announcing the NYC Algorithms and Optimization Site

Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Principal Research Scientist and Xerxes Dotiwalla, Product Manager, NYC Algorithms and Optimization TeamNew York City is ...

Three women killed in occupied West Bank missile attack

Three women in an occupied West Bank hair salon became the first Palestinian deaths of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Saudi FM warns Iran that patience in Gulf not ‘unlimited’ amid attacks

Foreign minister warns Iran that regional neighbours have 'significant' capabilities with which to respond to attacks.

Google at KDD’17: Graph Mining and Beyond

Posted by Bryan Perozzi, Research Scientist, NYC Algorithms and Optimization TeamThe 23rd ACM conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (K...

Trump says Israel won’t hit South Pars after Iran attacks Qatar, Saudi, UAE

Qatar says missile attack caused fires and extensive damage at Ras Laffan as Saudi Arabia warns Iran of action.

Qatar expels Iranian attaches after LNG facility strike

Qatar is expelling Iran’s military and security attaches after Iranian missiles caused “extensive damage” to Ras Laffan.

Launching the Speech Commands Dataset

Posted by Pete Warden, Software Engineer, Google Brain TeamAt Google, we’re often asked how to get started using deep learning for speech and other...

Funerals held for Afghans killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul hospital

Afghans are burying the victims from a Pakistani air strike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul.

Exploring and Visualizing an Open Global Dataset

Posted by Reena Jana, Creative Lead, Business Inclusion, and Josh Lovejoy, UX Designer, Google ResearchMachine learning systems are increasingly in...

At least eight killed as Brazilian police carry out lethal favela raid

Brazilian police say that raid in Rio de Janeiro targeted a leader of Red Command, a powerful criminal group.

A concerningly high number of teens admit to using AI for making sexualized pictures

A new study found that 55% of U.S. teens have used AI nudification tools to create explicit images. The findings reveal a growing crisis around consent and t...

Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding

Posted by Jakob Uszkoreit, Software Engineer, Natural Language Understanding Neural networks, in particular recurrent neural networks (RNNs), are n...

Seminal Ideas from 2007

Posted by Anna Ukhanova, Technical Program Manager, Google Research EuropeIt is not everyday we have the chance to pause and think about how previo...

Build your own Machine Learning Visualizations with the new TensorBoard API

Posted by Chi Zeng and Justine Tunney, Software Engineers, Google Brain TeamWhen we open-sourced TensorFlow in 2015, it included TensorBoard, a sui...

Highlights from the Annual Google PhD Fellowship Summit, and Announcing the 2017

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University RelationsIn 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstanding g...

The Google Brain Team’s Approach to Research

Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior FellowAbout a year ago, the Google Brain team first shared our mission “Make machines intelligent. Improve peopl...

TensorFlow Lattice: Flexibility Empowered by Prior Knowledge

Posted by Maya Gupta, Research Scientist, Jan Pfeifer, Software Engineer and Seungil You, Software Engineer (Cross-posted on the Google Open Source...

Portrait mode on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones

Posted by Marc Levoy, Principal Engineer and Yael Pritch, Software Engineer Portrait mode, a major feature of the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartp...