A series of new changes are coming to Google Home on Google Assistant, from payments for voice apps, proactive notifications, and hands-free phone calls. “You can call any landline or mobile phone in the U.S. or Canada completely free and it’s all done in a hands-free way,” said … | Continue reading
Google is improving its Cast controls to make the TV browsing experience a little more communal. At I/O today the company announced that in the coming months, both Google Home and Google Assistant will be able to launch a small navigation interface on screen instead of forcing yo … | Continue reading
Google's Assistant isn't just for Pixel phones anymore.The company's digital helper will soon be available for other Android phones and iPhones too, Google announced during the keynote presentation at its I/O developer conference Wednesday. SEE ALSO: You can now ask Google Assist … | Continue reading
Google's I/O developer conference is finally here, and the company wasted no time celebrating its accomplishments.Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, kicked off the company’s big event by making a huge (and somewhat surprising) announcement about Android usage — according to Pichai, the … | Continue reading
Wir hatten erwartet, dass Google Home eine Menge Updates bekommt. Die offensichtlichsten sind, dass Google Home nun proaktiv werden soll. D.h. es wird nicht nur auf Fragen antworten, sondern, wenn es denkt das könnte passen, auch einfach so losreden.... | Continue reading
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A group of senators have an important message for the people who help decide NASA’s budget: don’t cut the space agency’s education funding. In an open letter released today, 32 senators led by Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) are calling on members of the Senate Appropri … | Continue reading
On the stage of Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai announced Google.ai, a new initiative to democratize the benefits of the latest in machine learning research. Google.ai will serve as a center of Google’s AI efforts — including research, tools and applied AI. The new site will host … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever wanted to see Google Home’s response in a screen bigger than your smartphone, Google’s soon adding the ability to do just that. Announced at Google I/O, you’ll soon be able to ask the Home things like, “Show me my calendar on the TV,” or “Show me nearby restaurants … | Continue reading
Up until now, Google has been racing to improve the featured integrations for its Home smart speaker, all in order to catch up to Amazon’s Echo. Right now, you can control a handful of services like Netflix and Spotify Premium with a voice command, but not much else. Today at I/O … | Continue reading
Google's image-recognition AI just got way smarter.The company announced a new computer-vision platform, Google Lens, which could give our smartphone cameras even more power.SEE ALSO: Google's new AutoDraw wants to make drawing easier for everyoneCEO Sundar Pichai showed off Goog … | Continue reading
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google today announced that the Google Assistant, the company’s virtual personal assistant that’s available on devices like the Google Home and Pixel phone, will soon get more conversational. As Google’s Scott Huffman announced today, 70 p … | Continue reading
Actions on Google – the voice-activated apps that are Google’s answer to Alexa’s Skills – are expanding to the new platforms of iOS and Android, the company announced at its I/O developer conference this afternoon. Currently, Actions are available on Google Home devices. The com … | Continue reading
Amazon might’ve beaten Google to the punch in adding voice call functionality to its smart speaker, but not by much. Today Google announced that it’s adding a new calling feature to Google Home. At launch, only outgoing calls are supported; there’s no way to call the Home speaker … | Continue reading
Wie einige schon erwartet hatten, soll der Google Assistent heute auch auf iOS landen. Wie genau die Implementierung hier aussehen wird, ist noch noch nicht ganz klar, aber wir würden uns wundern, wenn man dem iPhone jetzt OK Google zurufen könnte.... | Continue reading
At its I/O keynote today, Google announced that its Google Assistant is now available on iOS. The news had been rumored earlier this week, so its not terribly surprising. Google hasn’t specified whether it’s via its a new app or if its just integrated into the main Search app – m … | Continue reading
Google Assistant will now be able to help you buy stuff without going to a third-party site, thanks to an update that integrates Google’s own payments processing system. The feature seems imminent — you can already save things like your name, address, and credit card number to yo … | Continue reading
Until now, there hasn’t been an official way for apps and other third parties to integrate with the Google Assistant on the phone. That changed today at Google I/O, where it’s been announced that Google Actions will work on the phone — both Android and iPhone.What it means is tha … | Continue reading
Google announced at it’s I/0 conference today that it’s working on a new form of AI called Google Lens, which understands what you’re looking at and can help you in various ways. With Google Lens, your smartphone camera won’t just see what you see, but will also understand what y … | Continue reading
Watch out Siri, there’s a new kid in town. Google just announced at its I/O developer conference that its personal assistant is coming to iOS. You won’t be able to replace Siri with Google Assistant, but you’ll be able to use the feature in Google’s dedicated app.“Today, I’m ex … | Continue reading
At its I/O 2017 developer conference today, Google announced Google Assistant is coming to iOS today as a standalone app, rolling out to the U.S. first. Until now, the only way iPhone users could access Google Assistant was through Allo, the Google messaging app nobody uses. Scot … | Continue reading
Not everyone wants to place a heart rate monitor on their chest or wrist. Sometimes you want a meaty sensor, something that won’t drain your battery, and something that also carries your phone using a system of magnets that keeps your phone safe from harm. Sometimes you want the … | Continue reading
Yep — the rumors are true: Google Assistant is headed to the iPhone to take on the Apple’s Siri. Announced at Google I/O, the company will roll out Assistant as a separate iOS app from Google search to specifically target tasks tied to your personal preferences. However, Assistan … | Continue reading
Facebook has been working to make users feel safer on the platform for years, and in its latest effort to enhance the online community, the social media platform partnered with The Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth.On Tuesday — in the … | Continue reading
At long last, Google is enabling a keyboard in the Google Assistant. It will work on both Android and iPhone, and Google’s implementation is, well, exactly what you’d expect. When you open the Assistant, it defaults to voice, but you can hit a little keyboard button and get the k … | Continue reading
At Google’s I/O developer conference, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new technology called Google Lens. The idea with the product is to leverage Google’s computer vision and A.I. technology in order to bring smarts directly to your phone’s camera. As the company explains, the sma … | Continue reading
Google says it’ll soon be able to automatically remove unwanted objects from photos. And not just minor obstructions, either: in a demo today, Google showed a chain link fence being removed from the foreground of a picture. Only one demo was shown — and on a photo with relatively … | Continue reading
Es durfte ja auch wohl kaum sein, dass Google plötzlich hinter Bixby zurücksteckt. Zwar gab es schon länger eine Möglichkeit Bilder zu erkennen, aber jetzt wird die Methode aufgeblasen und damit sollen völlig neue Dinge möglich... | Continue reading
When humans work together with not-very-smart robots, they’re better at solving problems than when they work only with other people, new research says. The finding could help boost productivity in digital workplaces. And it’s a step towards understanding an automated future where … | Continue reading
Google today launched Lens, a service that uses AI to quickly recognize objects, businesses, and other things in the world. The news was announced onstage during the keynote address at I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, by CEO Sundar Pichai. “If you run into something and … | Continue reading
Onstage at Google’s I/O developer conference today, CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company’s Android operating system recently crossed a major milestone. It now has more than 2 billion monthly active users. Android isn’t the only massive property Google has under its umbrel … | Continue reading
Gmail is about to get a lot smarter.Google just updated the Gmail app with an AI-driven "Smart Reply" feature that predicts responses you may want to send. SEE ALSO: How to turn on 'Undo Send' in GmailGoogle first introduced Smart Replies in 2015 in its alternative email app, Inb … | Continue reading
In der universellen E-Mail-App "Inbox" und im Chat-Programm "Allo" hat man schon seit geraumer Zeit die Möglichkeit, auch eingehenden Nachrichten mit vorgefertigten Textbausteinen schnell und unkompliziert zu antworten, wenn gerade keine Zeit ist,... | Continue reading
Google Assistant’s smarts are coming to the camera. Today at I/O 2017, CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Assistant will soon be able to analyze what a smartphone camera is pointed at and provide relevant content. Point it at a flower, and Google will identify the type. If you poin … | Continue reading
Onstage at Google I/O in Mountain View, CEO Sundar Pichai announced that earlier this week the company surpassed 2 billion monthly active users on the Android platform, continuing its reign as the world’s most popular mobile operating system. The company has added nearly 400 mil … | Continue reading
When Google launched Inbox, its more experimental next-gen email client for Gmail, one of its flagship features was Smart Reply. With Smart Reply, Google’s machine learning algorithms look at your incoming emails and then suggest short, three- or four-word replies (think “Sure” … | Continue reading
Disneyland Paris will host Electroland, its first electro concert, within the theme park this July. | Continue reading
Google announced that its Photos app is being used by more than 500 million monthly active users, up from the 200 million revealed last year. Along with this updated statistic, the company shared that more than 1.2 billion photos have been uploaded to date. Today’s news comes fro … | Continue reading
Google announced that Gmail for Android and iOS is getting Smart Reply, a machine learning feature that automatically offers short messages for quickly responding to emails. The feature is rolling out globally in English, with Spanish to follow “in the coming weeks,” and Google p … | Continue reading
Google revealed a handful of milestones today during its I/O 2017 developer conference, but the biggest was undoubtedly that Android now powers on 2 billion active devices. The milestone was passed in the past week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage. “It’s a privilege to serv … | Continue reading
Google has updated its Android Device Manager app for the first time in two years, and it also gets rebranded to Find My Device. | Continue reading
Believe it or not, it's Wednesday again, and it's also National Mushroom Hunting Day. I'm not sure if it's exclusively a Midwestern thing, but this time of year (and actually, a few weeks prior) is just gangbusters for hunting morel mushrooms. Morels are pretty interesting fungi, … | Continue reading
Google today is unveiling its second generation Tensor Processor Unit, a cloud computing hardware and software system that underpins some of the company’s most ambitious and far-reaching technologies. CEO Sundar Pichai announced the news onstage at the keynote address of the comp … | Continue reading
So swamped with to-dos that nothing’s getting done? How to manage your blogging tasks with a tool like Wunderlist. | Continue reading
Google today announced that the company has created a second generation of its tensor processing unit (TPU) chip, a change the company calls a massive leap forward in its ability to train AI models. Available through the Google Cloud platform, the second generation TPU promises f … | Continue reading
General Electric Appliances today announced that owners of its Geneva series of connected devices can now use Google Home with Google Assistant to preheat your oven, find out if laundry is finished, or check that the dishwasher is running. GE Appliances, a Haier company, makes Wi … | Continue reading
Google announced its next generation of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) machine learning chips at Google I/O today. These chips, which are designed specifically to speed up machine learning tasks, are supposed to be more capable than CPUs or even GPUs at these tasks an … | Continue reading