[The Morning After]( It's Monday, February 26, 2024. After complaints that Googleâs image generator built into its Gemini AI was (ugh) woke, Google [explained]( why it may have overcorrected for diversity. Prabhakar Raghavan, the companyâs senior vice president for knowledge and information, said Googleâs efforts to ensure a wide range of people generated in images âfailed to account for cases that should clearly not show a range.â Users criticized Google for depicting specific white figures or historically white groups of people as racially diverse individuals. In Engadgetâs tests, asking Gemini to create illustrations of the Founding Fathers resulted in images of white men with a single person of color or woman among them. When we asked the chatbot to generate images of popes through the ages, we got photos depicting Black women and Native Americans as the leader of the Catholic Church. The Verge reported that the chatbot also depicted Nazis as people of color, but we couldnât get Gemini to generate Nazi images. âI am unable to fulfill your request due to the harmful symbolism and impact associated with the Nazi Party,â the chatbot responded. Raghavan said Google didnât intend for Gemini to refuse to create images of any particular group or to generate historically inaccurate photos. He also reiterated Googleâs promise to improve Geminiâs image-generation abilities. However, that entails âextensive testingâ before the company switches the feature back on. â Mat Smith The biggest stories you might have missed [Intuitive Machinesâ Odysseus lander tipped over at touchdown, but itâs still kicking]( [Some Apple Vision Pro units reportedly developed a similar hairline crack on the front glass]( [Amazon to pay $1.9 million to settle claims of human rights abuses of contract workers]( ââYou can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. [Subscribe right here!]( [The first phone reveal at MWC 2024 is this official Barbie Flip Phone]( C'mon Barbie let's go party. [[TMA]
HMD]( MWC 2024 kicks off this week, and while Engadget is covering it all remotely â no tapas for Mathew â this is one weâd be unlikely to book a meeting for. HMD (or Human Mobile Devices) has been making Nokia phones for the past few years and announced at MWC itâll release an official Barbie Flip Phone this summer, in partnership with Mattel. Itâll be pink, obviously, with a dash of âsparkle.â Itâll be a feature phone, not a smartphone, with HMD marketing it as an accessory geared toward âstyle, nostalgia and a much-needed digital detox.â That also means it should be cheap. [Continue reading.]( [Samsungâs Galaxy Ring gets officially revealed at MWC]( Itâll be on display alongside its Galaxy AI mobile experience.
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Samsung]( Samsung has put its Galaxy Ring on public display for the first time at its booth at MWC, which starts today. The health and wellness device, available in platinum silver, gold and ceramic black, will go on sale later this year. The company said little about the Galaxy Ring when it first displayed a render of the device at Unpacked last month. We learned that it would be a wellness-oriented wearable to rival Oura, and it would have a suite of unknown sensors. Journalists werenât allowed to photograph it, but some additional images from Samsung show it to be a chonky, concave ring about the same size as the Oura. The extra girth isnât surprising, given the electronics cached inside. The company described the Galaxy Ring as âa new health form factor that simplifies everyday wellness, supporting smarter and healthier living via a more connected digital wellness platform.â So, a smart ring then? [Continue reading.]( [Letâs talk about Xbox]( This weekâs gaming news. No one is suggesting Microsoft should stop making video-game hardware. But should Microsoft keep making generationally distinct consoles in the traditional hardware cycle? Does Xbox need a box? The company calls its cloud game streaming service xCloud for a reason, right? [Watch here.]( The Morning After is a daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't [subscribe](. Craving even more? [Like us on Facebook]( or [follow us on Twitter](. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? [Send us a note.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( You are receiving this email because you opted in at [engadget.com](. Not interested anymore? [Unsubscribe from this newsletter.]( Copyright © 2024 Yahoo. All rights reserved.