Google Photos now has over 200 million monthly active users after only a year of existence, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced at I/O today. Users have created more than 2 trillion labels that help the company sort its Google Image search results, and 24 billion of those are self … | Continue reading
Erik Kay stellt Allo vor, einen smarten Messenger: Alle Google-Dienste verbunden in einem Messenger, natürlich auch mit dem Google Assistant. Sicherheit soll eine zentrale Rolle spielen.Expressions sind Googles Emoticon-Erweiterung: Text-Na... | Continue reading
Today Google announced that it has sold 25 million Chromecasts, the company’s cheap streaming dongles that let you send music, photos, and videos from your phone to a TV or an external speaker. That’s 25 million units sold since 2013. We last heard about Chromecast in September, … | Continue reading
Google I/O is here. What you can expect from today's big announcement? For one thing, a closer look at Android N. We might also see some updates to Chrome OS and a new messaging app. Plus: Google's unveiled an Amazon Echo competitor called Google Home. Stay tuned as we catch you … | Continue reading
Google is announcing a new messaging app today. It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in. Google says it'll be available later this summer — for free — on both iOS and Android.Allo (pronounced like "Aloe" and not like "'allo, guv'nor!") is … | Continue reading
Google would like to remind you that you can talk with it.Today Google is announcing a "Google Assistant" that essentially performs the same tasks as other Google interfaces do, but in a conversational mode. It doesn't have a name, it just has the power of Google and its deep min … | Continue reading
Today at I/O, Google took the wraps off its latest foray into the world of communications: the company announced Allo, a smart messaging app supercharged with machine learning and Google’s new Google Assistant service (its answer to Amazon’s Alexa), giving users the ability not j … | Continue reading
Look out SIRI. Step aside Alexa, Google has its own voice-based digital assistant: Google Assistant.While it lacks a proper or even pretty name, this could be the mother of all voice-activated assistants. "Our ability to do conversational understanding is far ahead of what other … | Continue reading
At Google I/O today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai detailed a future that featured a whole lot of talking to your devices. 20 percent of queries on Google are performed via voice search. Because voice assistant’s, such as Google Now, are making up progressively larger percentages of o … | Continue reading
At its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, Google today announced that it will be releasing a virtual assistant device called Google Home — later this year. The technology looks sort of like Google’s OnHub router, introduced this year. But unlike OnHub, … | Continue reading
Es wird noch eine Weile dauern, bis Google seine Alexa Konkurrenz auf den Markt bringt, denn die Vorstellung auf der Google I/O ist scheinbar nur eine Vorankündigung für später im Jahr.Google Home (nein, nicht Chirpy) wird wie erwa... | Continue reading
At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today unveiled a new hardware device and competitor to Amazon Echo, a portable speaker powered by voice assistance technology called Google Home. The device was widely rumored to have been in development under the codename “Chirp,” a … | Continue reading
Alexa, Google’s aiming to steal your throne.Google announced on stage at its annual developer conference a smart home device called Google Home that will directly compete with the Amazon Echo speaker, the current darling of the budding tech category.SEE ALSO: What to expect at Go … | Continue reading
Here we are discussed are some of the SaaS support best practices which can help drive Support Systems to perfection. | Continue reading
Google baut Hello Now aus, einen "virtuellen Assistenten", der auf Spracheingaben reagiert und Kontext-sensitive Informationen selbständig ausgibt. Wer Google-Forschungschefs Peter Norvigs Aulassungen bei Quora verfolgt hat, weiß, was da... | Continue reading
Well, the rumors were true. At its IO developer conference in California today, Google announced Home, the company’s own take on the Amazon Echo. Much like the Echo, Home is basically a small speaker you plug into the wall, with a series of far-field microphones tuned to hear you … | Continue reading
For the past year and a half, the tech world has been recovering from Amazon's surprise announcement of the Echo. Now, Google is finally doing what everybody wanted it to do: release a competitor. It's called Google Home, and it's coming out later this year for an unspecified pri … | Continue reading
Google today introduced its own personal digital assistant called, aptly, the Google Assistant. It’s based on existing technology, like Google Now. Speaking at the beginning of the keynote at the Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, Google chief executive … | Continue reading
Google today said it was unveiling a virtual assistant tool at its annual developer conference in Mountain View. This appears to be similar to what Google Now can do already, but it appears to be an upgraded verison of it. You can ask a question for an answer, and follow up with … | Continue reading
Last May, Lee Hnetinka shut down his on-demand delivery service WunWun, which was a direct a competitor to Postmates, and then sold the company’s assets to Alfred, a TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 Battlefield alum. Fast forward to today and Hnetinka has teamed up with JustVacay found … | Continue reading
A new method that lets scientists make antibiotics from scratch could lead to the development of thousands of new drug candidates, according to a study published today in Nature. But some experts caution against getting too excited; it's far too early to tell if the method will h … | Continue reading
Filmmaker Chris Smith (American Movie, The Yes Men) wanted a way to easily find out what his friends were watching, what restaurants they visited and what music they were listening to. To streamline that process, he created the app Rex, which soft-launched for iOS last month and … | Continue reading
On this week's episode of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow receives a letter, which he reads aloud reluctantly because it is vile. Today, HBO has released an image of the prop letter used when filming the scene: Calligraphy does nothing to make these words seem elegant. … | Continue reading
My deepest apologies for posting this a little later in the day than I usually do, it just so happens that today is I Love Reese's Day and between that and yesterday's National Mushroom Hunting Day, I'm running on fumes here. We've already posted that two soft launched games, Mr. … | Continue reading
A developer known for impressive gaming technology is helping development teams that are doing cool things with and for its engine. Develop Epic Games has given out $75,000 in total to five teams as part of its Unreal Dev Grants program, which it created to reward innovative proj … | Continue reading
Someone has bested all of Dark Souls 3's challenges on its hardest setting - i.e. the seventh New Game Plus playthrough - without using weapons.Indeed, you can watch Twitch streamer TolomeoR brave the game's second half in the stream below. He finishes the run at around the 3.30 … | Continue reading
As part of Volvo's top-to-bottom redesign of all its cars, the Swedish carmaker is showing us a pair of concepts for its smallest car lineup, the 40 series. First teased last week, the 40 series concepts are a spectacular take on small cars, unlike anything else in the segment.Sh … | Continue reading
Windows 95 is slowly turning into the operating system people use to prove modern devices can run anything. We've seen Windows 95 running on both the Apple Watch and an Android Wear smartwatch, and now someone has managed to get it running on an Xbox One. It's a slightly less imp … | Continue reading
It looks like Google is finally letting car makers create their own vehicle-specific apps for Android Auto. | Continue reading
Maybe, just maybe you haven't heard of INKS [$1.99], an artisitic pinball game where the aim is to light up tiles that spray paint once touched. If so, you can check out Shaun’s review right here. INKS offers a premium experience with a reasonable entry price with two optional wo … | Continue reading
You will spend hours searching Kickstarter for the right projects, but which are the best? Here's our Kickstarter picks for May 2016! | Continue reading
Last year, Metal Gear Solid publisher Konami said it would help fund a new prosthetic limb for a double amputee gamer.25-year-old James Young, who lost an arm and a leg in 2012 when he was dragged underneath a London tube train, was chosen as the recipient.Now, BBC Three has rele … | Continue reading
Hello! We are congregated outside. Actually everything will be outside today. It will be weird. And hopefully fun. The keynote is slated to start at 10AM PT and run for two hours. Until then, we'll be applying sunscreen. Because obviously the sun is the enemy and we must do whate … | Continue reading
Chinese capital controls have an impact on the local economy, but also on any payment service provider dealing with the yuan. Alipay, which is the country’s largest payment processor, cannot continue their overseas expansion die to even tighter capital control rules. Alipay Will … | Continue reading
Gleich ist es soweit und Google wir die Roadmap für das kommende Jahr auf der Entwicklerkonferenz Google I/O vorlegen. Welche Schritte unternehmen sie in Bezug auf VR, was bringt Android N außer den bereits bekannten Features noch, was... | Continue reading
Netflix wants you to know how fast your internet connection is, and has today launched a new website, Fast.com, that will give you that information. Basically, it’s a simplified speed test website that only focuses on download speed – as this is the metric that determines your vi … | Continue reading
The Truth About Passive Income: Is It Real? Residual income, passive income, easy money, no work, right? Isn’t that what it’s all about? Maybe, but I’ll explain the truth about passive income for you. Setting up some sort of nest egg that brings you cash on a monthly basis … | Continue reading
A spy photographer has come across a fleet of all-electric Chevy Bolts in San Francisco today that appear to be equipped with arrays of self-driving sensors, a sign that GM is already testing the electric cars that could be ferrying Lyft passengers around without drivers sometime … | Continue reading
Walking into the opening keynote at this year’s Marketo Summit, I saw firsthand just how busy today’s marketers are. Attendees were anxiously awaiting the start of the show as they furiously sent emails, IMs and tweets. Multi-tasking at its finest. Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez was … | Continue reading
Wizards of the Coast said in March that Sword Coast Legends would still get its Rage of Demons free downloadable content despite shutting down the N-Space development house. Today, it delivered on that promise. The Dungeons & Dragons publisher released its latest video game tie-i … | Continue reading
So many things about Los Angeles feel uniquely friendly to crime dramas like The Nice Guys. The long, warm nights give characters plenty of time to roam in the dark, committing crimes or solving them. The city’s sprawl packs in enough racial, cultural, economic, and environmental … | Continue reading
Samsung Pay users can now now add membership and loyalty cards to the mobile wallet service in the US. Users will be able to scan the loyalty cards when they checkout, and Samsung Pay will also be able to store insurance and personal identification cards alongside their credit ca … | Continue reading
If you're an app developer looking for an easier way to manage your Android apps via your mobile device, you're in luck. | Continue reading
Most people have heard of John Sculley. And if they don’t recognize the name, you can jog their memory by saying ‘the Pepsi guy who ran Apple and threw out Steve Jobs’ and they’ll go ‘ahhh, that guy!’. But Sculley has done more than that, and is doing a lot more as well. Around t … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Reddit isn’t the best place on the Internet. In fact, its name has become synonymous with hate speech, racism, sexism and other terrible things. So, maybe getting let go from Reddit was a blessing in disguise for Dan McComas, the former SVP of product at Reddi … | Continue reading
For nearly a year, Princeton researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Naranyan have been hard at work on a new project called the Princeton Web Census. Their goal is to log all the cookies, scripts, and trackers in the various corners of the internet, providing a running tab of a … | Continue reading