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We’ve made Gemini 2.5 our most secure model family to date.

We’re extending Gemini to become a world model that can make plans and imagine new experiences by simulating aspects of the world.

Gemini 2.5 Pro continues to be loved by developers as the best model for coding, and 2.5 Flash is getting even better with a new update. We’re bringing new capabilities to our models, including Deep Think, an experimental enhanced reasoning mode for 2.5 Pro.

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How is 5G Technology Impacting Mobile App Development?

As the reach of 5G technology starts to expand globally, businesses in all sectors realize the evolutionary benefits and implications thereof. For mobile app developers, 5G means more than just speed. It represents a completely new level for app planning and building and experiencing.

With this technology, apps will be able to deliver smoother experiences with responsiveness to end-users, especially for real-time communication applications, games, and mobile applications relying on the Internet of Things.

In this article, we will take a view of how 5G has implications on mobile app development and why it is essential to remain ahead of the curve for success. 

What is 5G Technology?

5G is the fifth-generation technology related to the mobile network, planned to offer faster data throughput, lower latency, and improved connectivity. It is faster than 4G and ensures download rates at a speed up to 100 times than other previous generations. Its capacity to send data in real-time with low delay, handle more connected devices, and deliver more bandwidth transforms mobile apps. These characteristics are particularly crucial for app developers working with technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and the Internet of Things. 

How Does 5G Technology Impact Mobile App Development? 

1. Faster Speed

The ultimate standout of 5G technology is its unmatched speed-a clear advancement compared with the already outstanding 4G. With the potential for data transfer speeds at as high as 10 Gbps, mobile applications will be able to perform operations and distribute material much better. Apps will load faster, seamlessly update, and give a much more fluid user experience and this will be so even for data-intensive applications.

For mobile gaming, streaming platforms, and multimedia-rich apps, 5G’s speed transforms how users interact with content. Games with high-definition graphics or complex multiplayer environments can run without lag, and video streaming apps can deliver ultra-high-definition (UHD) videos with virtually no buffering. This also enhances interactive aspects to assure more fluid engagement with comments in social media, live streaming, and gaming apps.

As compared to earlier networks, 5G offers more speed. Due to this, mobile application developers can provide more innovative and dynamic experiences.

2.  Minimal Latency

Ultra-low latency is one of the greatest innovations in 5G technology. Compared to 4G networks, 5G networks could even provide a latency as low as 1 millisecond whereas, on most 4G networks, the latency is found to take from 30 up to 50 milliseconds.

Augmented and virtual reality applications require low latency. For example, for smooth and interesting streaming, AR applications need data to be sent in quickness. Similarly, low latency ensures there will not be any kind of lag or motion sickness in VR applications hence it becomes helpful in entertainment as well as educational sectors.

With 5G’s low latency, these apps can deliver high-quality video and voice calls with minimal delay, making remote meetings and consultations more fluid and reliable.

For businesses, the ultra-low latency of 5G opens up new possibilities for developing apps that offer seamless real-time experiences, whether it’s live collaboration, gaming, or AR/VR applications.

3. Expansion of IoT-Connected Mobile Apps

5G supports a large number of devices at once, which makes it perfect for the Internet of Things (IoT). While 4G struggles with multiple connections, 5G can handle them smoothly. This means IoT apps will run better, with fewer delays or interruptions.

Mobile apps can now easily connect with smart devices like home appliances, wearables, and industrial tools. For example, smart home apps can control things like lights and security in real time. Wearable devices, such as fitness trackers, can give instant updates on health data because of 5G’s fast processing.

4.  Improves cloud-based mobile applications

Cloud-based mobile applications benefit the most from 5G technology. Its speed and low delay let the apps run smoothly while relying on the cloud for data storage and processing. With 5G, apps can access data from the cloud faster, leading to better performance and less waiting time for the users.

This is especially crucial for businesses that use apps for data-heavy tasks. For example, companies that use real-time collaboration tools or apps that need large amounts of data, like video editing or graphic design platforms, will see improvements. It allows users to upload, download, and access files much quicker, even when working with high-quality content.

Additionally, 5G supports edge computing, where data is processed closer to the source instead of in a distant cloud server. This reduces the time it takes for apps to respond, making them more efficient. For industries like healthcare or logistics, where quick access to data is critical, this improvement can be a big advantage.

5.  Security and Privacy of Mobile Apps

Security has become a major issue as 5G connects more devices. As more data moves between apps and networks, hackers now have more opportunities as a result. To secure apps developed for 5G, developers must take additional precautions. The main challenge is the increased data traffic. With 5G’s fast speeds, hackers can quickly steal large amounts of data if security measures are weak. Encryption becomes more important to protect sensitive information. Developers should also focus on securing communication between multiple devices, especially in IoT apps.

The increased quantity of attack points is further cause for concern. Since 5G links more devices, every one of them becomes a possible target. The network’s developers are responsible for ensuring the security of each device. This means implementing strong authentication procedures and routinely upgrading the guidelines.

App developers can create more secure and safe apps for the 5G era by keeping these issues in mind. Security needs to be the main concern as more businesses and consumers use 5G-enabled apps.

 

The Future of 5G in Mobile Application Development

Although 5G is still in its early stages, it has enormous potential. As more organizations and industries adopt 5G, mobile apps are expected to evolve. Developers can design complex apps that run faster, interact in real-time, and perform more efficiently. This opens up new opportunities for apps in sectors such as healthcare, gaming, and education.

We will also see an increase in AI-powered applications requiring real-time data processing. Because of 5G’s low latency, apps may provide instant feedback and predictive analytics, allowing businesses to make more informed decisions. AR and VR apps will prosper, offering more immersive experiences.

Businesses should remain ahead of the curve by implementing 5G technology now. Those who adopt it early on can develop apps that provide better services and get a competitive advantage in the market.

As 5G becomes the mainstream, it will change what people expect from mobile apps, requiring developers to create quicker, smarter, and more imaginative solutions.

Conclusion

5G is more than just a high-speed network, as it represents a fundamental transformation in how mobile apps are created and utilized. With its fast speeds, low latency, and capacity to connect more devices, 5G is creating new opportunities for mobile app developers and enterprises. 5G is transforming the future of mobile technology by enhancing real-time experiences and performances of cloud-based and IoT apps. Businesses using 5G can develop innovative apps, improve user experiences, and remain ahead of the competition.

As 5G expands globally, its impact on mobile app development will only rise, opening up new avenues for innovation and growth. To truly benefit from everything 5G technology has to offer, developers and businesses must embrace it and reconsider their app strategy.

 

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The wealth of information provided by our senses that allows our brain to navigate the world around us is remarkable. Touch, smell, hearing, and a strong sense of balance are crucial to making it through what to us seem like easy environments such as a relaxing hike on a weekend morning.

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study. The study introduces a new simulation method that lets researchers test their social robots without needing human participants, making research faster and scalable.

Researchers have developed a novel framework named WildFusion that fuses vision, vibration and touch to enable robots to 'sense' and navigate complex outdoor environments much like humans do.

A research team has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial settings.

A research team has developed a novel haptic device designed to enhance both safety and efficiency for workers in industrial settings. This research was recently published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. The team was led by Professor Keehoon Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jaehyun Park from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH.

Soft robots are known for their flexibility and adaptability, but most still rely on rigid electronic components for control and timing. A recent publication from researchers at Georgia Tech challenges that paradigm.

Designed to support a wide range of development environments, it provides open APIs and modular options, positioning it as a versatile research platform for AI and robotics software developers.

Humans no longer have exclusive control over training social robots to interact effectively, thanks to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Hamburg.

ChatGPT Now Creates Beautiful, Downloadable, .PDF Reports:

In a great leap forward for writers, ChatGPT is now able to auto-format the research it does for you into beautifully presentable, downloadable, .PDFs.

Now available to ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro subscribers, the extremely helpful feature works with ChatGPT’s Deep Research.

The tool is an AI agent that can be prompted to do extensive research on your behalf and come back with a well-researched report, complete with link citations.

Observes Michael Nunez: The export feature enables users to “download comprehensive research reports with fully preserved formatting, tables, images, and clickable citations.”

Writers and researchers, for example, will be able to prompt ChatGPT Deep Research to create an extremely informative and artfully produced .PDF that will be presented by ChatGPT as a finished report – or ebook.

Bonus: The new export-to-.PDF feature works on both new reports and prior reports you’ve created with Deep Research.

Subscribers to ChatGPT Enterprise and Education accounts are promised to see the new feature soon, according to Nunez.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Now Connects to Your Data Library on OneDrive or SharePoint: Writers and researchers with a wealth of data stored on MS OneDrive or SharePoint have a new, competitive advantage: They can now seamlessly integrate those databases with ChatGPT Deep Research.

The new feature, still in beta, enables users to prompt ChatGPT’s Deep Research tool to search those databases – which is especially handy if you know that the data you’re looking for is there, but you don’t know precisely where.

Other database platforms that also integrate with ChatGPT – at least in this beta application – are Dropbox and GitHub.

ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Team subscribers already have access to this extremely powerful new capability.

Access for ChatGPT Education and Enterprise subscribers is promised soon.

*Shoot-Out: ChatGPT Overall Best Choice for AI-Powered Deep Research: Writer Lance Whitney finds in his own tests that pound-for-pound, ChatGPT currently does the most in-depth, consumer-grade, AI-powered ‘Deep Research.’

Observes Whitney: “Though it took the longest to finish the job, its report was the most thorough, in-depth, well-written and interesting to read.”

Other chatbots Whitney tested against ChatGPT were Google Gemini, Perplexity AI and xAI’s Grok.

*ChatGPT Competitor New Contender in Deep Research: ARI Enterprise – a new Deep Research platform – has scored high results as an AI tool for examining a narrow topic for an extended period of time and then coming back with a finished report on that topic.

The tool, which can search the Web, your company’s internal database plus premium databases available via Internet access, scored 80% for accuracy.

Essentially, ARI analyzes over 500 sources simultaneously across public Web data — in addition to secure, private documents and premium databases.

This comprehensive research approach gives decision-makers the confidence that no critical insight has been overlooked, according to Richard Socher, CEO, You.com.

*Next Generation AI Agents for Research and Other Uses Will Bypass Your IDs and Passwords: Coders are furiously working on a next generation of AI agents – which can perform multiple tasks for you without supervision – that will simply bypass your ID and password when they need to access your various online accounts and apps – including your bank accounts.

Observes writer Steve Rosenbush: “The AI ecosystem is working on the ‘plumbing’ that will make such complex AI agents possible.

“The introduction of app stores in 2008 abruptly and broadly changed the norms by which people interact with the world.

“AI agents could be very close to triggering something just as big.”

*ChatGPT: Okay if We Ingest Every Detail of Your Life?:” In its quest to become your go-to AI buddy, shaman, know-it-all – and oh yes, writing tool – for all time, ChatGPT wants to be able to ingest every detail of your life, forever.

Observes ChatGPT-Maker CEO Sam Altman: ChatGPT’s ultimate AI capability will be able to “reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you’ve ever had in your life, every book you’ve ever read, every email you’ve ever read, everything you’ve ever looked at is in there, plus connected to all your data from other sources. And your life just keeps appending to the context.”

Granted, offering up all the details of your life to an AI corporation is a disturbing concept to many.

But given that many users of AI already see their AI chatbots as trusted – and sometimes, even romantic – companions, it appears certain that a significant percentage of users are ready for ChatGPT and similar AI to ‘know everything’ and become their most intimate confidant.

*Cherry-Picking AI Chatbots, Based on Need: One Writer’s Take: Writer Kelsey Piper offers an interesting, extremely in-depth rundown in this piece on her favorite AI chatbots, based on what she needs done.

Some interesting highlights:

–Best Overall AI Chatbot: ChatGPT. “ChatGPT gets you the most bang for your buck,” Piper observes.

–Best for Writing Fiction: ChatGPT-4.5: The downside is that at the ChatGPT Plus level, users are limited to sending 20 messages to ChatGPT-4.5 per month.

–Best for AI Imaging: ChatGPT-4o’s image creator. It’s “the best AI out there for generating images — by a large margin” according to Piper.

–Best at Being Your Friend: Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Observes Piper: “I’ve had far more fascinating or thought-provoking interactions with Claude than any other model. And it’s my go-to if I want to explore ideas rather than accomplish a particular task.”

*PhD in AI Cheating?: Student Plagiarism and Similar AI Fraud Now Rampant: A new study finds that student cheating with AI has essentially overtaken higher education.

Observes writer Mike Kaput: “For a growing number of students, using generative AI to complete assignments isn’t an exception. It’s the norm.

”From Ivy League halls to community college classrooms, students are increasingly offloading their cognitive labor to AI — including automating note-taking, summarizing readings, writing code, and even generating entire essays.”

The result?: “Faced with this tidal wave, many educators are in open despair, according to the report,” adds Kaput.

*Turbo-Charging Gmail With the Top Five AI Chrome Extensions: One Writer’s Take: Writer Doug Aamoth serves-up his top five favorite AI Chrome extensions for bringing Gmail to the next level.

His picks:

–Mailmeteor: A mail-merge tool that enables you to create a template email you want to send to say 100 companies, and then personalize each, individual email sent with data drawn from each individual company on your mailing list.

–Concisely: Auto-summarize your emails in a single sentence.

–Composte AI Extension: Offers suggestions for enhancing your email as you type.

–Inbox Purge: Automatically de-clutter and categorize your emails.

–Grammarly: A pioneer in AI editing/writing that now integrates seamlessly into Gmail with this Chrome extension.

*AI Big Picture: “Eric Schmidt: The AI Revolution is Under-Hyped”: In an unusual tongue-in-cheek pronouncement, Eric Schmidt – former Google CEO – characterizes the current AI tsunami as under-hyped.

Credited for transforming the fledgling, early 2000s Google into one of the planet’s top five tech powerhouses today, Schmidt and his perspective carries serious weight.

One of Schmidt’s most surprising revelations in this 25-minute, TED Talk video: In the fierce competition between major players like the U.S., China and other nations, one of those governments may not be willing to sit back and watch as a competitor lunges so far ahead in the AI race that they will leave the rest behind forever.

Instead, the envious competitor watching from the sidelines may simply decide to bomb the datacenter of the world’s AI leader, just to even things out.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Claire chatted to Lerrel Pinto from New York University about using machine learning to train robots to adapt to new environments.

Lerrel Pinto is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University (NYU). His research is aimed at getting robots to generalize and adapt in the messy world we live in. His lab focuses broadly on robot learning and decision making, with an emphasis on large-scale learning (both data and models); representation learning for sensory data; developing algorithms to model actions and behaviour; reinforcement learning for adapting to new scenarios; and building open-source, affordable robots.