The new Picker API enables secure photo selection, while the Library API will focus on managing photos and videos uploaded by your application.

Learn about the latest updates to Google's Gemini models, including reduced pricing for Gemini 1.5 Pro, increased rate limits, faster performance, enhanced quality, and more.

Vertex AI Prompt Optimizer, a new managed automated prompt engineering service, can help save time and effort in prompt engineering while ensuring performing prompts ready for your generative AI applications.

Google is rolling out (in GA) a new Gemini model, 1.5 Flash-8B, our smallest production model with SOTA performance for its size.

Configure accepted payment methods for Google Pay, with options for authentication methods, card networks, and card types, and upcoming features for enhanced control and customization.

The People of AI podcast Season 3 highlighted inspiring stories and career anecdotes from individuals shaping the future of AI, focusing on themes of democratizing AI, AI for Good, redefining intelligence, and AI's impact on work.

Compare Mode is a powerful new feature designed to help you make informed decisions about which Gemini model best suits your needs.

Firebase Demo Day is back! Join us virtually on November 19, 2024 for a showcase of cutting-edge Firebase technology.

KerasHub is a new unified library for pretrained models fostering a more cohesive ecosystem for developers.

The Responsible Generative AI Toolkit is being expanded with new features to support responsible AI development across all LLMs, including SynthID Text for watermarking.

Chrome on Android will soon natively support third-party autofill services, providing a smoother user experience.

Google is committed to investing in privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to ensure user data privacy, improving products like Google Home and Google Search.

Developers can now access and build with the latest Gemini models through the OpenAI Library and REST API. Update your code with three lines and get started.

The second leg of Freedom Refined Sunflower Oil’s The Hindu MetroPlus Cookery Contest 2013 at A.S. Rao Nagar was high on enthusiasm and talent, writes MANJULA KOLANU

Sea spray, suntan and parties take a backseat as the greener, quieter side of the State sees a steady inflow of domestic travellers

Lack of sustained marketing and promotion, adequate infrastructure, besides administrative shortcomings are among the reasons pointed out for tourism in Karnataka not taking off the way it has in other popular States

The upholstery, curtains, and linens have been upgraded to better quality

Maral Yazarloo-Pattrick, Sameera Dahiya, and Urvashi Patole smash stereotypes about female bikers in India

British playwright Sam Holcroft’s Edgar and Annabel, a dystopian story of dissenters fighting against the establishment, comes to Chennai, directed by Sunandha Raghunathan

‘Shark Tank India’ is back for season two with “smarter entrepreneurs and smarter sharks,” say the sharks Peyush Bansal and Aman Gupta

With the new year comes a heap of resolutions. To help you stay on track this time, we ask inspiring personalities from different fields to break down how they tackle challenges

Memory Bytes, a phy-gital exhibition, explores the Anglo-Indian community’s story across centuries

From books to board games, we offer you a variety of activities you can get into at the beginning of the year

After painting the walls of a 100-year-old school building, and a hospital, Namitha B Ramaiah and Siddharth Kaul are looking to up the interest quotient of public spaces in Bengaluru

Rovio entertainment’s decision to remove Angry Birds from the Google play store is leaving fans disappointed 

At Water School in Durgam Cheruvu, you don’t need to be a sportsperson to go kayaking or stand up paddling, all you need is the love to try something new

The founders of Studio Clutter from Chennai talk about their journey as pet furniture makers and teaching about working with wood

The Coimbatore-based The Papyrus Itineraries and stargazing tour organisers Starvoirs have planned a sky-gazing event on April 22 and 23

A night of camping, food, music and a photo exhibition to celebrate Nature in Hyderabad

More older women are now learning to dance, gathering together at apartment complexes and signing up for online classes, as they discover the benefits of movement

LOL in Shamirpet in Hyderabad stands for Land of Love, a venue for shooting of photographs and videos

The outdoor setting of Cubbon Reads and Cubbon Book Club fosters reading as well as social connections

Polish artist Liactuallee celebrates Pride Month with crocheted sculptures and embroidery

Vizag Reads, a quiet reading community, meets every Sunday at VMRDA Central Park. It is the Visakhapatnam chapter of Cubbon Reads in Bengaluru, an initiative that has turned into a worldwide silent reading movement with more than 30 chapters across India and around 15 internationally

With state-of-the-art laser projection and 12-channel sound with EPIQ premium large format, Broadway Cinemas offers an immersive movie experience

A weekend book reading initiative - Vizag reads - at the VMRDA Central Park in Visakhapatnam, is giving an opportunity for book-lovers to come together and read in peace.

Storyteller Usha Venkatraman on what makes the age-old tradition of oral narration reach out to new audiences

With more than 15 chapters in India, Urban Sketchers are documenting many aspects of everyday life and architecture

Project Play, a brainchild of 29-year-old IAS officer Dhatri Reddy, creates 58 playgrounds in Anganwadi centres of Anakapalli district of Andhra Pradesh using discarded tyres and galvanized iron pipes

Visakhapatnam is set to host a two-day wildlife photography exhibition on July 29 and 30

Villages in Andhra Pradesh are putting discarded tyres and PVC pipes to good use... and the kids are loving it

Bhuvaneshwari Kumaravel has created eco-friendly traditional toys that keep children and adults engaged

Coimbatore Reads is one of the many chapters of Cubbon Reads, which has sparked a silent reading movement in several parts of the world