What do Google’s AI updates mean for you? Tech & Science Daily podcast

Google is increasing its artificial intelligence offerings and even the world’s most popular search engine is getting an AI makeover.

The Standard’s Business & Technology Correspondent, Simon Hunt, reveals all the big announcements from the tech giant’s annual developer conference.

The impressive array of AI announcements comes just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o. Signalling the fierce level of competition currently in the generative AI space.

Professor Ruth Travis from Oxford Population Health at Oxford University tells Tech & Science Daily about their research that blood proteins ‘warn of cancer seven years before diagnosis’, and explains how it could potentially help pave the way for future prevention of the disease.

Professor Travis is senior author of the two Cancer Research UK-funded studies behind the findings.

The team stresses that further research is needed to find out the exact role the proteins play in cancer development, which are the most reliable ones to test for, and which drugs could target the proteins.

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Bumble has apologised over their controversial billboards referencing celibacy, saying ‘we made a mistake’.

The dating app company issued a statement after their latest ad campaign received widespread backlash from users online. One billboard read; “You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer”.

The $1.4 billion Dream Chaser plane that will take humans to space, scientists discover new species of giant jellyfish, and why parts of Paris will be off-limits this summer without a QR code.

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