Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Google has been hard at work improving Project Astra since it was first shown during Google I/O this year. The AI bot that understands the world around you is slated to be one of the major updates to ...

We’re quickly entering the realm of AI that is useful, and key to this is Project Astra, Google’s new universal AI agent that is helpful in everyday tasks. Oppo, Honor, Motorola and Tecno have all ...

Google DeepMind's research and development project for building a universal AI assistant. The first product released under Astra was the Gemini Live assistant for Android phones (see Gemini Live).

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Project Astra began as an ambitious research project designed to bolster Google's AI efforts when it was first announced last year. Now, it's a product you can actually use as Gemini Live on millions ...

Google unveiled Project Astra last year at I/O, showing off nascent AI technology that allows mobile users to talk to Google's AI in real time using conversational language. You might ask the AI to ...

Sachin Bahal is a freelance tech writer. He has a bachelor's in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and studied journalism and photography at Durham College. A tech geek since childhood, ...

When I saw Google’s Project Astra, a real-time computer vision-based UI, last year, I was cautiously excited for the future—the future of smart glasses specifically. In its (admittedly very controlled ...

Google DeepMind’s Project Astra -- an AI assistant prototype with eyes, ears and voice being built for smart glasses, phone or computer -- can see what the user does. Greg Wayne, director of research ...