Google meint es ernst, mit den nun ganz und gar konzerneigenen Smartphones und wirft sich dafür entsprechend ins Zeug: Die Pixel-Geräte kommen mit unbegrenztem Speicherplatz für Fotos und Videos in ganzer Pracht/Auflösung in der... | Continue reading
The first teaser for Netflix's long-awaited adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events is finally here. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Educational technology is making a bold mark on the development of higher education. While edtech overall has seen quite a few successes in the past years, the global uptake of truly innovative educational technology at universities is still limited. The future progress of edtech … | Continue reading
Google just couldn’t stop releasing new hardware products today. It’s part of a new strategy: instead of letting other companies take its software and make stuff, Google is making the first version itself. Just so with the Google Wifi, a router that follows the latest trend: inst … | Continue reading
One of Saturday Night Live's most legendary openings featured the show's executive producer Lorne Michaels asking then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, "Can we be funny?" about three weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Giuliani responded "Why start now?" The audience laugh that follo … | Continue reading
I follow the battles between developer guilds for quite a while and now and then I post my own snarky remarks on Twitter about the latest JS frameworks to join the club. It's too easy to get dragged into grumpy-mode these days. Articles like the satire about How it feels to learn … | Continue reading
In Part Two of this edition of The Writer Files, two writers help Kelton answer the questions: Is the novel dead? Did the internet kill books? | Continue reading
Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder and billionaire entrepreneur, said yesterday at an event in London that the blockchain technology could create an ‘economic revolution’ to numerous countries worldwide. At the Virgin Disruptors Week in London, Branson took some time out to ta … | Continue reading
Today's Google event was dedicated to how its new hardware and software will blend together. Google started off with an official Pixel phone unveiling, after weeks of rumors and leaks. That kicked off a focus on software, especially the way Google's new Assistant software will po … | Continue reading
One of my earliest jobs was secretary at my mother’s hair salon. I booked appointments and sold shampoos, sure, but mostly I gossiped with customers. I could spot the exact moment when a guest spotted a juicy tidbit in the salon’s copies of Entertainment Weekly or US. Their eyes … | Continue reading
It’s finally here, the smart speaker that Google announced in May at its I/O conference. And the biggest thing to know is that it’s priced to beat its main competitor, at $129 to the Echo’s $179. I got a brief chance to mess around with the Home last week at Google’s campus in Mo … | Continue reading
Google hat die beiden neuen Smartphones in den deutschen Online-Store eingepflegt. Wer jetzt bestellt, soll in zwei bis drei Wochen sein neues Telefon bekommen, diese Lieferzeiten dürften recht schnell länger werden, obwohl: Mit einem Startpreis... | Continue reading
GM envisions fuel cell vehicles for stealth patrols -- there's no engine noise and no heat signature. | Continue reading
Hierzulande ist es noch eine virtuelle Konkurrenz, global betrachtet kreuzen zwei Tech-Giganten die Klingen: Mit Google Home schickt der Suchmaschinenkonzern ein Gerät in die direkte Konkurrenz zu Amazons Echo und wie dieses hat das Teil im merk/denkwürdigen... | Continue reading
On the face of it, today’s big Google event in San Francisco was all about hardware, but let’s be real here – there’s always something bigger going on with Google below the shiny glass and metal exterior. Much of the event was devoted to the company’s play for the smart home – a … | Continue reading
Here they are, at long last, the Google Phones. Technically, they’re called Pixel and Pixel XL. I’ve spent slightly longer with both than we usually get at a typical tech event hands-on, and so I have a few impressions to share. But the most important one is this: these are perha … | Continue reading
Looking cool has never been Google’s strong suit. This is the engineer-led company that brought us Google Glass, after all. Yet some beanie-clad Mountain View designer seems to have had a vinyl-fueled revelation. Google is late to the game of non-cardboard virtual reality headset … | Continue reading
Google is tossing its hat into the VR ring with its just announced virtual-reality headset Daydream View.Due this November, the headset will be compatible with a series of Daydream-ready phones made by a variety of Android device manufacturers. The first ones will be Google's Pix … | Continue reading
Google has announced Android 7.1 Nougat, which adds a number of features to Android 7.0 that launched earlier this year. Android 7.1 brings new features to all devices, but it also includes a number of special things that are exclusive to Google's new lineup of Pixel phones.The P … | Continue reading
Keine Überraschung: Googles erstes eigenes VR-Headset, Daydream View, sieht den Entwürfen, die es auf der Entwicklerkonferenz im Mai diesen Jahres zu sehen gab, verdammt ähnlich. Dass man selber so ein Headset bauen wolle, war schon damals... | Continue reading
Kicking off the show at its hardware launch, Google CEO Sundar Pichai touted the shift from mobile to artificial intelligence that allowed for two-way conversation and natural dialogue. He described Google’s desire to build an ‘individual Google’ for each user before detailing so … | Continue reading
With the announcement of Google's new Pixel and Pixel XL today, there has been the question of what's happening to the long-running Nexus hardware program, which started in 2010 with the Nexus One and has been comprised of eight phones, four tablets, and two media players. Accord … | Continue reading
The inside story of Google’s bold bet on hardware Continue reading… | Continue reading
Google's Chromecast — the updated version of which launched in October 2015 — is a great, cheap way to stream content to your TV, with one major drawback: It doesn't support 4K videos. This is now remedied with the Google Chromecast Ultra, a straightforward update to the Chromeca … | Continue reading
At a press event in San Francisco today, Google provided more detail about the Google Home, its smart speaker that lets you talk with Google. The company first introduced the hardware at the Google I/O developer conference in May but not talk about how much it would cost or when … | Continue reading
Google Home, the company’s competitor to the Amazon Echo, is now available for preorder. It will cost $129, cheaper than Amazon’s device. You can pre-order it today in the US and it will start shipping November 4th. In our brief testing it was a little smarter than Siri and a lot … | Continue reading
Google Home, Google's answer to Amazon's hit Echo voice assistant/speaker/smart home hub device, finally has a release date and price.The physical Google Search device will be available on Nov. 4 for $129, which is less than the $179 Echo. It'll be available from Google and retai … | Continue reading
Google Home, the company’s answer to Amazon’s Echo, made its official debut at the Google I/O developer conference earlier this year. Since then, we’ve heard very little about Google’s voice-activated personal assistant. Today, at Google’s annual hardware event, the company final … | Continue reading
Coming at one of the weirdest times ever to announce news — the start of a major Google event — Periscope announced a new partnership with its mother company Twitter. In the box to the left you can now add your account by clicking ‘edit profile’ and ticking the box next to ‘Show … | Continue reading
Pixel is here and it comes in three truly unique colors.At its "Made By Google" event on Tuesday, Google announced its much anticipated Pixel devices, the company's new premium Android smartphones.Though we saw a fair share of teases, rumors and detailed leaks over the weekend, n … | Continue reading
12,3 Megapixel hat der Sensor auf der Rückseite der neuen Pixel-Smartphones von Google. Klingt erstmal nicht sensationell, die alleinge Anzahl von MP gibt ohnehin noch keine verlässlichen Hinweise auf die faktische Bildqualität. Immerhin... | Continue reading
Google just announced a new feature arriving in its just-unveiled Pixel smartphones that could make Apple iPhone owners jealous: unlimited storage for photos and videos…in full resolution. That’s something the company already provides via its Google Photos service as an option, b … | Continue reading
Google announced Google Home – its take on the Amazon Echo concept – back at I/O in May, but we’ve pretty much heard nothing about the device since. Now we’re finally getting some more details. As a recap, Home is powered by Google’s new Assistant AI, which is an improved, more … | Continue reading
WSJ's Cameron McWhirter, who recently researched his family's genealogy, joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero and explains discrepancies he discovered regarding his family's heritage over the course of generations. He also explains why many ancestors lied about their background wh … | Continue reading
At its big hardware event Tuesday, Google launched Google Wifi, a home router which connects to other Google Wifi routers to create a mesh network. The system is expandable and modular; you can simply add more devices to expand Wi-Fi coverage in your home. SEE ALSO: Google’s big … | Continue reading
Google has introduced the third generation of its Chromecast streaming media dongle, called the Chromecast Ultra. This $69 device will be available in November. As VentureBeat reported last month, this new device will stream 4K video content, powered by HDR and Dolby Vision suppo … | Continue reading
At its hardware launch event in San Francisco today, Google unveiled its new Chromecast Ultra, a streaming dongle that pairs with your phone and plugs into your TV to deliver 4K video content over the Web. The successor to last year’s second-gen Chromecast also support high dynam … | Continue reading
After weeks of leaks, Google is finally onstage in San Francisco today to announce its new line of hardware — and there's a lot hardware. With new Pixels phones, Daydream VR, Google Home, Google WiFi, and Chromecast all getting unveilings, there's so much to look forward to in th … | Continue reading
Die Künstliche Intelligenz wird bei Google zukünftig eine noch größere Rolle spielen. CEO Sundar Pichai kündigte auf der Pressekonferenz des Unternehmens einen Strategiewechsel an: Aus "mobile first" wird "ai" first. Das System... | Continue reading
Sonia Simone gives her thoughts on "obligatory scenes" for content marketing: which are the "must-include" elements that satisfy audience expectations? | Continue reading
Google’s revealing a wide product portfolio today, but the Chromecast Ultra might be the most unassuming sleeper hit of the bunch. The newest member of the Chromecast family supports 4K resolution video streaming, and yet still doesn’t break the bank at $69. It’s still a plastic … | Continue reading
Today Google did what it does best: forgot about previous hardware and announced new stuff. Its new toy, Google Wifi (not a typo), is a $129 router with ‘smart’ features similar to its previous shiny new thing, OnHub. The new system relies on mesh Wi-Fi routing capable of killing … | Continue reading
At a press event in San Francisco today, Google announced a completely new product, the Google Wi-Fi router. The introduction comes a few weeks after Android Police published an article documenting Google’s plan to launch the product at today’s event. A single Google Wi-Fi router … | Continue reading
Google announced today that its Daydream virtual reality platform will have an app based on Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, an upcoming movie based on the work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. The VR experience will use Google’s newly announced headset, … | Continue reading
Google has dropped a pair of new phones into the world, the Pixel and Pixel XL, but it's not letting them roam around naked. The company also announced the return of Live Cases — its range customizable phone cases first announced for the Nexus phones earlier this year. Users can … | Continue reading
Google revealed Wifi today – not the underlying tech, of course, but a new piece of hardware that wants to make it even easier to bathe your whole home in wonderful, soothing connectedness. Google Wifi is a new router, which basically is a tiny device that can pair up with others … | Continue reading
During Google’s Pixel event today, Google announced the Chromecast Ultra, a 4K version of its very popular streaming device. The Chromecast Ultra will be able to stream 4K content from YouTube Netflix, and Vudu at launch, with films from Google Play Movies gaining support in Nov … | Continue reading