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Google I/O keynote live stream — Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google.
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Google Lens coming to Google Search; some search results to include 3D models for an AR view of what you searched for; Lens translation coming to low-end phones — Imagine you're thinking about chairs, and you Google up some to try out in your living room.
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Google announces Duplex on the Web, less focused on mimicking speech, can now handle car rentals, tickets, and fill online forms with info Google has about you — Last year, Google stoked intense controversy when it announced Duplex, a technology that uses eerily human-sounding artificial …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says its next-gen Assistant is 10X faster and includes more app-specific functionality, coming to Pixel phones later this year — After three years, the voice-activated helper gets its biggest update yet. And it shows just how much Google already knows about you.
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Live blog of Google I/O keynote, where new hardware is expected, including a larger Google Home Hub and a line of Pixel 3A phones, alongside Android 10 Q — And maybe a few surprises, too — Google's annual developer keynote is here and thanks to a lot of leaks, we have a fairly good idea of what to expect.
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Google unveils the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL, both going on sale this week for $399 and $479 respectively — In October 2018, during a press event in New York City, Google took the wraps off the latest additions to its three-year-old Pixel smartphone lineup: Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL …
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First look at Android Q: dark mode, better gestures, Live Caption, improvements to OS security updates via Project Mainline, Focus Mode, and more — It isn't about what's new, it's about what's better — A full release is expected this fall, but Google is announcing new major features … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google unveils Live Caption, coming with Android Q, which shows a real-time transcription of any video or audio a user plays on their phone — It even works when using video chat apps — Google waited until I/O 2019 to demonstrate one of the most impressive features of Android Q. It's called Live Caption …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says Android now has 2.5B+ active devices, compared to 2B+ it had in May 2017 — At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that Android now has over 2.5 billion users. That's up from 2 billion the company announced two years ago. — This means overall Android growth remains … | Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung says it cannot confirm the shipping date for Galaxy Fold and will cancel pre-orders, unless told not to, if they do not ship by May 31 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized …
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Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 — Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies …
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Current and former employees discuss how Apple's stores changed under Angela Ahrendts' reign, with challenges around customer service festering — Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration.
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MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @damanr
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise Automation, GM's self-driving division, raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from investors including SoftBank, Honda, and T. Rowe Price Associates — Post-money valuation is now $19 billion — Cruise Automation, the self-driving division of General Motors, announced on Tuesday …
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Google Pixel is no longer exclusive to Verizon, Pixel 3, 3a launching on T-Mobile, Sprint, more — Since its debut, the only carrier that's had the privilege of selling the Google Pixel line has been Verizon Wireless. That officially ends today, though, as Google has partnered up with T-Mobile …
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US Department of Energy says AMD and Cray will build the world's fastest supercomputer, dubbed Frontier, by 2021, with 1.5 exaflops of processing power — Dubbed Frontier, the supercomputer expected to go online in 2021 with 1.5 exaflops of processing power
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe clamps down on online hate speech and misinformation, concerns grow that these efforts will harm free expression and stifle dissent — LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IntelliCode, Microsoft's tool for AI-assisted coding that was trained on GitHub projects with 100+ stars, is now generally available — IntelliCode, Microsoft's tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a site facilitating access to dark web sites, arrested by FBI and others in several countries — The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces.
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Flexe, which operates an on-demand warehouse marketplace for retailers, raises $43M Series B led by Activate Capital and Tiger Global Management — As more consumers shop online, retailers need capacity to ship products across the country — particularly as they battle e-commerce kingpin Amazon.
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