I asked Google Bard 3 questions to test its new image capabilities — here’s how it went

Google Bard was definitely a focal point of Google I/O 2023 earlier this month, with the introduction of multimodal functionality grabbing most of the headlines. Multimodal functionality allows Bard to both respond to prompts with images and to process context when provided with images instead of a text-only prompt, and it’s all thanks to the…

Apptronik readies its humanoid robot for a summer unveil

Jeff Cardenas pulls out his MacBook. Apptronik’s co-founder and CEO has a slideshow he wants to show, running down the Austin startup’s seven-year history. It does, indeed, take a bit of contextualizing. Like many fellow robotics firms, the company was fueled by government contracts in its earliest days. First up was Valkyrie 2, the second…

How to Maintain Your Integrity While Keeping Up With a Rapidly Changing Environment

When Moe Rock isn’t running the Los Angeles Tribune, he’s busy trying to help entrepreneurs build their community, elevate their leadership and improve their personal development. He believes that everything comes down to integrity and is releasing his debut book The Moral Compass: 28 Principles for Integrity-Driven Leadership next month. “I think we don’t have…