Google has announced the launch of Play Games Sidekick with Gemini integration so you can ask Gemini Live real-time questions about your gameplay. This allows users to ask Gemini about certain in-game actions within the game itself, such as solutions to certain levels in Puzzle games, instead of leaving the game to seek out tutorials or walkthroughs. Here’s everything else that has been…
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
September 25, 2025
A new app offering to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell the data to AI companies is, unbelievably, the No. 2 app in Apple’s U.S. App Store’s Social Networking section.
The app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a moneymaking tool…
Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI - and training pipelines will love it
September 25, 2025
Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server – enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to access real-world statistics using natural language and better train AI…
Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps
September 25, 2025
In the last decade, as the camera quality of smartphones improved, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok rose in popularity for photo and video sharing. Many people turned from casual posters to money-earning creators.
Emergent, a company built by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, aims to become a similar platform for consumers when it comes to app creation. The platform allows…
Nikon revokes all C2PA image authenticity certificates after major vulnerability exposed
September 25, 2025
Nikon has confirmed that it will revoke all C2PA certificates issued to date after a major vulnerability in its authenticity feature was uncovered.
The flaw, first detected by long-time Nikon Rumors contributor Horshack, showed that images could be fraudulently signed by…
Biodiversity in focus: These photos just won £1,000 at the RSB Photography Competition
September 25, 2025
The winners of this year’s Royal Society of Biology (RSB) Photography Competition have just been unveiled, and the images are stunning.
The competition is about more than just pictures; it’s a vital celebration of biodiversity and habitat restoration, showing how our…
EIA: Solar and wind crush coal with 20% more power in 2025
September 25, 2025
A new review of US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data by the SUN DAY Campaign reveals that in July, solar-powered electricity shot up by over 30%, while wind grew by almost 14% in the US.
Solar continues to break records in July
EIA’s latest monthly “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through July 31, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest growing among the…
Lucid's (LCID) Gravity SUV has 'so many orders' it's extending the $7,500 EV tax credit
September 25, 2025
Lucid Motors (LCID) will continue offering the $7,500 federal EV tax credit for Gravity buyers until the end of the year. Lucid’s interim CEO, Marc Winterhoff, said the electric SUV has “so many orders” and it doesn’t want buyers to lose out on the savings.
Are…
This 75 MPH electric car with bicycle pedals to charge it is apparently the real deal
September 25, 2025
I know, it sounds too crazy to be true, but the Vigoz by French company Cixi is an honest-to-goodness pedalable vehicle with a top speed of up to 120 km/h (75 mph). And it looks pretty slick, too.
I’m not sure if it’s technically an electric “car” since it only has…
Military ground robots now come with amphibious skills
September 25, 2025
TROIA, Portugal — Rheinmetall Canada said it has successfully tested an unmanned ground vehicle in a novel scenario, plunging the robot into the Atlantic Ocean to see it crawl out on a sandy beach here as part of a NATO military exercise.
The vehicle was the latest version of the company’s Mission Master series, shipped to Portugal to partake in NATO’s Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping…
