Canadian filmmaker Sean Menard recently uncovered nearly 100 reels of film chronicling Terry Fox and his Marathon of Hope in 1980. This previously unseen footage is coming out later this year in a documentary titled “Run Terry Run”. It looks incredible.

Congrats, Coach Kev! Ontario’s Kevin Smith sets 55 Canadian record at TCS Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon runningmagazine.ca/sections/… via @CanadianRunning

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I’m very excited to share our work on Gemini today! Gemini is a family of multimodal models that demonstrate really strong capabilities across the image, audio, video, and text domains. Our most-capable model, Gemini Ultra, advances the state of the art in 30 of 32 benchmarks, including 10 of 12 popular text and reasoning benchmarks, 9 of 9 image understanding benchmarks, 6 of 6 video understanding benchmarks, and 5 of 5 speech recognition and speech translation benchmarks. Gemini Ultra is the first model to achieve human-expert performance on MMLU across 57 subjects with a score above 90%. It also achieves a new state-of-the-art score of 62.4% on the new MMMU multimodal reasoning benchmark, outperforming the previous best model by more than 5 percentage points. Gemini was built by an awesome team of people from @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch, and elsewhere at @Google, and is one of the largest science and engineering efforts we’ve ever undertaken. As one of the two overall technical leads of the Gemini effort, along with my colleague @OriolVinyalsML, I am incredibly proud of the whole team, and we’re so excited to be sharing our work with you today! There’s quite a lot of different material about Gemini available, starting with: Main blog post: blog.google/technology/ai/go… 60-page technical report authored by th Gemini Team: deepmind.google/gemini/gemin… In this thread, I’ll walk you through some of the highlights.

I feel awful for Bob McCown: a series of strokes have left him in a hard place, and everything in his life is a trial now. The only joy? Cigarettes. I worked with Bob, for a time: he was one of the great sports radio men there ever was. thestar.com/sports/how-a-ser…

We are devastated to learn of the tragic news coming from Carberry, Manitoba. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved and affected.

Which brings us to today: Google testing removing news links from search results and Meta confirming it will block news sharing on its platforms in Canada. There were better alternatives that could have avoided this, but @pablorodriguez chose approach in which everyone loses. 8/8

"For 6 years, the job upholding the rule of law against Trump has been passed from one unwilling set of hands to the next. Now the job has returned to where it started. There is nobody else to pass it to. The time for justice has come." @davidfrum theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

The latest Economic Impact Report is here! In 2021, one thing was clear - the power of having a digital presence. Discover how @Google tools played a role in growing Canadian businesses, big and small, and provided $37 billion in economic activity. 👇 goo.gle/3SP1o7s

His Goatness Eliud Kipchoge stopped racing against humans long time ago.Eliud races against the clock. We have just witnessed something special as Eliud breaks the world marathon record and sets a new record of 2:01:09. No human is limited. Congratulations G.O.A.T #BerlinMarathon

Today would have been Terry Fox's 64th birthday. A true Canadian hero who was only 22 when he died from cancer. RIP.

Van Gogh's starry night with the first image taken from the James Webb Telescope

On behalf of the President Zelenskyy I’m honored to pass the first Ukraine’s peace prize to @Google @Karan_K_Bhatia. Our small express of gratitude. Company proved its bravery and devotion to freedom. As Ukrainians do every single day. Google stands for Ukraine! Just google it 😉

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re highlighting Black-perspectives, and sharing stories from Black Googlers, partners, and culture shapers from across Canada. Today, David Archer, who specializes in anti-racist psychotherapy, shares his views on #BHM goo.gle/3rjrEvQ

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re highlighting Black-perspectives, and sharing stories from Black Googlers, partners, and culture shapers from across Canada. Today, chef and TV host @RogerMooking shares what #BHM means to him. goo.gle/3ocFk9N

The Terry Fox Foundation is proud to continue Terry’s mission of funding cancer research. Terry believed in science and gave his life to help others. Thank you to all of our supporters who help us work toward realizing Terry’s dream of a world without cancer. 🇨🇦