Google has announced Personalised Image Creation in Gemini where it now uses your Google Photos library and goes through your interests to create an image of yourself instead of you having to write long detailed prompts. Here’s how the feature works.
Google is using Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature “to create more relevant, personal images using Nano Banana and your own Google Photos…
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
April 20, 2026
At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it’s starting with Tinder.
Tools for Humanity (TFH), the company behind the World project, announced Friday…
There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring.
Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of AI coding agents delivers…
Anthropic announced on Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.
With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude…
It’s long been cheaper to own an electric car, due to lower fueling costs. But the upfront cost is now lower, according to UK’s largest auto-buying website Autotrader, and reported by The Guardian. And a large part of it is because of the availability of low-cost Chinese…
Almost everyone positions home solar panel systems with home batteries as backup grid power insurance – and while that can be vitally important in a whole host of “what if” scenarios, keeping the lights on is the LEAST interesting thing your home battery can…
Mangrove Lithium has opened what it says is North America’s first commercial electrochemical lithium refinery, a 1,000-tonne-per-year plant in Delta, British Columbia, aimed at strengthening the continent’s EV battery supply chain.
The new site – known as the Single Stack Plant (SSP) – is Mangrove’s first commercial lithium-refining facility and its new headquarters. The company marked…
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Australia issued updates for two pivotal planning documents this week – its National Defence Strategy 2026 and Integrated Investment Program 2026 – while simultaneously promising a boost in defense spending.
Defence Minister Richard Marles…
PARIS — France is moving closer to a decision on its future rocket artillery system, with the country testing domestically developed weapons this month that will allow for a comparison with foreign systems in a few weeks’ time, the head of the country’s armaments…
The nation’s Air National Guard adjutants general are making their most unified push yet to recapitalize the U.S. Air Force’s fighter fleet, with 22 generals signing a letter to Congress this month calling for multiyear funding to buy between 72 and 100 new fighters annually.
The letter, sent April 1 to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations committees and their…
