Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images Just weeks after unveiling Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is on to its next top-performing model.  On Thursday, the company released an “early version” of Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview in the Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI. The model has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025. It can take text, images, video, and audio prompts, and has a one-million-token context window.  Also: Gemini Pro 2.5 is a stunningly capable coding assistant…

ZDNET’s key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89. This docking station makes adding external drives to your system a total plug-and-play affair. The case is plastic, so it feels a bit cheap but that doesn’t get in the way of performance. more buying choices At Amazon, the Sabrent USVB SSD docking station is on sale for $81, a 10% discount. It seems I’m always running out of…

Maria Diaz/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways The Mammotion Luba 2 3000H is available for $2,499. Built to handle uneven terrain, the Luba 2 is an all-wheel-drive (AWD) reliable robot mower with a GPS-powered perimeter that is surprisingly easy to set up.  The Mammotion app is not very user-friendly and can get buggy after a firmware update. Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite chores. It lets me focus on an uninterrupted task that satisfies my OCD,…

ZDNET’s key takeaways Ecovacs’ Deebot T30S Combo 3-in-1 robot vacuum, mop, and handheld vacuum is currently available for $1,200. The robot vacuum features an industry-leading 11,000 Pa of suction power, retractable mop pads to tackle corners and edges, a new v-shaped brush to prevent tangles, a self-emptying handheld vacuum, and self-washing and self-emptying features for the robot Though I had no issues with mapping, I found the Deebot T30S’s object avoidance left something to be…

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Looking for an AI that can analyze, summarize, and answer questions about your current web page? You may want to try Microsoft’s Copilot Vision feature. In a Bluesky post from Wednesday, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, announced the official debut of Copilot Vision for all Edge users. Initially rolled out last October as an experimental feature, Copilot Vision expanded its reach in December as a preview,…

By many accounts, Broadcom’s handling of the VMware acquisition was clumsy and caused many enterprises to reevaluate their relationship with the vendor The move to subscription models was tilted in favor of larger customers and longer, three-year licenses. Because the string of bad publicity and VMware’s competitors pounced, offering migration deals and packages. However, replacing a virtualization environment is neither trivial nor easy. That said, Broadcom must have been feeling some heat to bring back…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Finals season is here, and students everywhere are inundated with exams, projects, and late-night study sessions. To help lighten the load, Google is making all of its most advanced tools available for free to students. Free Gemini Advanced Gemini Advanced refers to Google’s premium AI subscription tier, which grants users access to its latest and most advanced AI offerings. Typically, access to Gemini Advanced is only available through Google’s One…

Cloud services provider CoreWeave has announced it is offering Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 systems, otherwise known as “Grace Blackwell,” to customers looking to do intensive AI training. CoreWeave said its portfolio of cloud services are optimized for the GB200 NVL72, including CoreWeave’s Kubernetes Service, Slurm on Kubernetes (SUNK), Mission Control, and other services. CoreWeave’s Blackwell instances scale to up to 110,000 Blackwell GPUs with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The GB200 NVL72 system is a massive and…