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Interactive and conversational search with Google Cloud and Elasticsearch

For retailers, having a powerful search function for their website and mobile applications is crucial. However, most current search experiences are somewhat basic and limited, primarily returning a list of results ranked based on keyword relevance. And typically, customers only have a vague idea of what they want, rather than a specific item in mind. …

Engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’

Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics. When applied to the surface of a prosthetic arm or a robotic limb, the sensor skin provides touch sensitivity and dexterity, enabling tasks that can be difficult for machines such as picking up …

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Announcing Open Source for Palantir Government Web Services

Editor’s note: This is a follow-up post to The Technical Annex: Announcing Palantir Government Web Services (GWS), which previewed some of our upcoming open source offerings for GWS. Over the next few months, we’ll be sharing our most compelling open source tooling to accelerate builders in the defense tech ecosystem. First up: Policy Bot for …

What CIOs and CTOs should consider before adopting generative AI for application modernization

Implementing generative AI can seem like a chicken-and-egg conundrum. In a recent IBM Institute for Business Value survey, 64% of CEOs said they needed to modernize apps before they could use generative AI. But simultaneously, generative AI has the power to transform the process of application modernization through code reverse engineering, code generation, code conversion …

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Looking back at wildfire research in 2023

Posted by Yi-Fan Chen, Software Engineer, and Carla Bromberg, Program Lead, Google Research Wildfires are becoming larger and affecting more and more communities around the world, often resulting in large-scale devastation. Just this year, communities have experienced catastrophic wildfires in Greece, Maui, and Canada to name a few. While the underlying causes leading to such …