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Google Photos adds suggested sharing based on who's pictured, printed photo books service, and shared libraries that let friends see shots taken in real time — “Google Photos is on fire!” says a cheery David Lieb, who is standing outside a building on the company's Mountain View campus alongside every one of his fellow employees.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google brings Assistant to the iPhone as a standalone app, available first in the US, and support for more languages is coming later this year — 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.
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| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google Lens, an in-photo search feature driven by computer vision, is coming to Google Photos and Google Assistant — Google is remaking itself as an AI company, a virtual assistant company, a classroom-tools company, a VR company, and a gadget maker, but it's still primarily a search company.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google says it's bringing Smart Reply to Gmail for all iOS and Android English-speaking users, with Spanish support arriving “in the coming weeks” — Google is using its machine learning prowess to respond to emails for you. The company's Smart Reply feature …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google announces Google Play Protect, to scan apps for malware, and Android Go, to optimize the platform for emerging markets — The search giant's mobile software runs on 2 billion devices. Its next job: Getting those devices on the latest version — and trying to reach a billion more.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google releases the first beta of Android O — It's already been available for a few months as a developer preview, but now the rest of us can finally get our hands on an upcoming version of Android. Android O Beta starts shipping today, if you point your browser over to android.com/beta.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google makes Kotlin a first-class language for writing Android apps — Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin's primary sponsor is JetBrains, the company behind tools like IntelliJ.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Google VP Clay Bavor and Tango engineering director Johnny Lee talk about firm's approach to immersive computing, including AR and VR, standalone VR headset — Clay Bavor knows immersive computing is a long-term project. Here's what he's doing to make it happen faster.
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| Jeff Larson / ProPublica: |
Security inspections of 4 Trump properties including Mar-a-Lago found vulnerable servers, wireless printers without passwords, unencrypted database login pages — We tested internet security at four Trump properties. It's not good. — Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida's coastal waterway.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google debuts 2nd-generation machine learning TPU chips, says they can deliver up to 180 teraflops of performance, available on Google Compute Engine platform — The TPU V2 could be a huge boon to Google's cloud computing platform — Google today is unveiling its second generation Tensor Processor Unit … | Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Google announces Google for Jobs, which adds job listings to search results, coming soon in the US — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google's mission is to steer people to the information they need in their daily lives. One crucial area the Internet giant says could use some work: Jobs.
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| Anya George Tharakan / Reuters: |
Cisco reports Q3 revenue of $11.9B, down 1% YoY, profits of $2.52B, forecasts disappointing Q4, and says it will cut 1100 more jobs; shares down ~8% after hours — Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) forecast current-quarter revenue that widely missed analysts' estimates and said it would cut 1,100 more jobs … | Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Twitter lets you see which advertisers are targeting you, opt out from individual interest categories, will remove support for Do Not Track on June 18 — As it begins to store people's off-Twitter browsing data for longer, the company adds new data controls and ends Do Not Track support.Sponsor Posts
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