I asked nano banana to show me what my dog would look like if he had the skin of a sphinx cat 🫤

The "restoration" process the V&A museum went through for the first YouTube video is nuts.

Archive.org source code, reverse engineered SWF player and some old YouTube ads from a DVD in a closet.

Delivered to the museum James Bond style.

www.vam.ac.uk/articles/acq...

I have photos of my youngest playing this on a square LCD display. Square!

this just gets wilder and wilder

Not sure why wifey scoffed when I called streaming @gamesdonequick.com "watching live sport"

Also honourable mention to this pinwheel I uhh found at #IOConnect Bengaluru.

Most practical goes to the Hasami Porcelain DeepMind mug. Photo is potato but it's great irl. (and say hi to my llama!)

I love a cozy hoodie. This one from #DeepMind is cozy and subtle enough to wear outside of the house.

Best team-swag has to be the Nano Banana jumper. Unique design, great box too (I kept it for months, "just in case").

A close 2nd was the Robotic Android figurine from @ptruiz.bsky.social. The spanner and laptop accessories are cute af. Not sure it's visible but the laptop is showing an object segmentation case.

Probably my favourite was this custom @jeffdean.bsky.social and Sanjay Gemmahat Lego set, holding the Map reduce paper. Thanks @developers.google.com!

2025 was a good year for tech swag, so instead of a #Wrapped here are my unsolicited and likely unwelcome top swag drops from the year 🧵 

Happy new year folks!

that's a cool set!

Python 3.15s lazy import syntax should definitely be ¿import foo?

US English keyboard users have had it too easy for too long.

Tartan featuring Green and Gold plus Red White and blue colouring.

TIL that Australia has an official national tartan. I kinda love it.

I _really_ wish support pipelines were as optimised as sales pipelines.

New stickers dropped! hmu if you're doing an event down undah and I'll try to drop by!

DK Bananza was a LOT of fun.

Bringing Gemini to students in Australia for free Exam season is upon us, and we want to help you study smarter. Now, students in Australia (ages 18+) can sign-up for a 12 month Google Gemini Pro plan for free.Gemini Pr…

Gemini Pro is now FREE for (adult) students in Australia for a whole year!

Gemini 2.5 Pro (noice)
Deep Research (toidy)
NotebookLM (swoit)
Veo 3 (you little beauty)
Jules (ripper)

blog.google/intl/en-au/p...

Give it a crack!

My feed seems to be split in two...

where my Critical Role awaiters at?

How fast is #gemma3 270M out of the box on a @raspberrypi.com 5? About 30 tok/s on CPU for the Q4_0 model using #ollama. Tried using #llamacpp, got about 32 tok/s. 🤯

Extremely promising for edge compute with no accelerator! Model is only ~250Mb on disk. Can't wait to fine-tune for my IoT projects 👨‍💻

Play here: imagen-pictionary-440719441735.us-west1.run.app

Or fork it yourself in AI Studio: ai.studio/apps/drive/1...

Enjoy the free image generations while they last! 💸

Check out Alex's original here: x.com/alexanderche...

🖼️ Imagen 4 is now Generally Available!

To show how powerful the new ⚡fast⚡ model is, try out this movie-pictionary game.

📽️ Guess the movie using Imagen 4 Fast. Link is below ⬇️

Here are a couple of my faves.

The vectors themselves come from residual activations across every layer in response token generation, then they evaluate which layer is the most important per-trait in order to "subtract evil" or w/e later on, efficiently.

This @anthropic.com paper is a super interesting read from both LLM system automation and the "model maths" PoVs.

✍️ Auto-generated prompts from traits
📊 Automated eval systems
💅 Model activations -> Persona Vectors
🧮 Vector subtraction -> steered output

PDF: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509

Post any requests or questions here. Otherwise I'll see you then!

🌏 APAC folks: I am running a Gemini CLI session this Wednesday. 

I'll cover the basics as well as diving into some power features, so feel free to join whatever your experience with the tool or Gemini.

⌚ 9.30am IND 🇮🇳 / 12pm SIN 🇸🇬 / 1pm TOK 🇯🇵 / 3pm SYD 🇦🇺

rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/gemin...

OH good stuff.

#GoogleIOConnect India brought the energy 🇮🇳

From powerful demos to community stories, developers are shaping what’s next.

What would you build with the tools shared at #GoogleIOConnect?

In my draft I swear I tagged you @tunetheweb.com. idk if anyone else in the pic is on here?