The bird is a beautiful silver-gray, and as she dies twitching in the lasernet I’m grateful for two things: First, that she didn’t make a sound. Second, that this will be the very last time.  They’re called corpse doves—because the darkest part of their gray plumage surrounds the lighter part, ...

Twenty years ago, Joanna Wakefield-Scurr was having persistent pain in her breasts. Her doctor couldn’t diagnose the cause but said a good, supportive bra could help. A professor of biomechanics, Wakefield-Scurr thought she could do a little research and find a science-backed option. Two decades ...

Just 3 months after the release of their state-of-the-art model Gemini 3 Pro, Google DeepMind is here with its latest iteration: Gemini 3.1 Pro. A radical upgrade in terms of capabilities and safety, Gemini 3.1 Pro model strives to be accessible and operable by all. Regardless of your preference, ...

Modern applications rely on structured storage systems that can scale, stay reliable, and keep data consistent. At the heart of all of it sits the data model. It defines how information is organized, stored, and retrieved. Get the model wrong and performance suffers, integrity breaks down, and ...

Google has officially shifted the Gemini era into high gear with the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, the first version update in the Gemini 3 series. This release is not just a minor patch; it is a targeted strike at the ‘agentic’ AI market, focusing on reasoning stability, software engineering, and ...

In this tutorial, we build a production-ready agentic workflow that prioritizes reliability over best-effort generation by enforcing strict, typed outputs at every step. We use PydanticAI to define clear response schemas, wire in tools via dependency injection, and ensure the agent can safely ...

AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image of a protester in Minnesota and then mocked those asking about it. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds and ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade For decades, handmade narco subs have been some of the cocaine trade’s most elusive and ...

When it comes to new-age technology, India has historically been at the forefront of several eras seen by human civilisation. Following suit, the nation is now stepping up in the age of Artificial Intelligence. A big proof is the ongoing AI Impact Expo 2026 in Delhi. The event has delegates and ...

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end visual document retrieval pipeline using ColPali. We focus on making the setup robust by resolving common dependency conflicts and ensuring the environment stays stable. We render PDF pages as images, embed them using ColPali’s multi-vector representations, ...