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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Allo, a messaging app with smart replies to image and text messages, Google Assistant, Incognito mode, available this summer for iOS, Android — 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.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Google Home, an always-listening small speaker to compete with Amazon Echo, coming out later this year, price unknown — 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.
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| Norm Jouppi / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google announces it has built a Tensor Processing Unit, a custom ASIC specifically for machine learning and tailored for TensorFlow — Posted by Norm Jouppi, Distinguished Hardware Engineer, Google — Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google's most-loved applications.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Duo, a one-on-one HD video-calling app, coming to iOS and Android later this summer — Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is how working hard to catch up.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Google Assistant, a conversational virtual assistant that's a big upgrade to Google Now — Google today said it was unveiling a virtual assistant tool at its annual Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View called Google Assistant. — This appears to be similar …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Android Instant Apps that launch immediately, no installation required, also works on some older versions of Android — Google today unveiled Android Instant Apps, a new project the company is experimenting with that offers users a subset of an existing app.| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Android apps and the Google Play Store are coming to Chrome OS — It looks like there's a little tidbit of information that might have been originally planned for the keynote (pulled because of time restraints, maybe?). According to a session description now on the Google I/O website … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
117M LinkedIn user emails and passwords from 2012 hack offered for sale on dark web marketplace; LinkedIn is contacting affected users — A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users. The company announced this morning that another data set from the hack …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Daydream is Google's VR platform, for new Android N phones only, which offers Android VR Mode, a full ecosystem that optimizes phone performance for VR — Following months of speculation, Google is diving deeper into virtual reality. Today at its I/O keynote, the company announced Daydream …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google turns Firebase into a unified platform for developers, with analytics, new notification system, and more; a free plan is now available — Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014 … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit acquires “wearable payment assets” from Coin including key personnel and IP; Coin products to no longer be sold; existing Coin 2.0 cards will still work — “No plans” for integration into products in 2016, but 2017 is a whole new year. — Fitbit devices are known … | Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: |
Zuckerberg meets conservatives, calls to rebuild trust after Trending Topics bias claims — Facebook is courting conservative friends through a Wednesday afternoon meeting with CEO Mark Zuckerberg. — The unusual session with about a dozen prominent conservative commentators and leaders … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 9.3.2 update bricking some 9.7-inch iPad Pro devices with “Error 56” message, Apple looking into the issue — iOS 9.3.2 is causing problems for some 9.7-inch iPad Pro owners, with multiple MacRumors readers and Twitter users reporting issues shortly after installing the update over the air.
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| Nokia Corporation: |
Nokia-branded phones and tablets returning to market as HMD Global acquires rights to Nokia brand and IP to sell new devices made by Foxconn's FIH Mobile — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has announced plans that will see the Nokia brand return to the mobile phone and tablet markets on a global basis.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Google Photos passes 200M monthly active users, up from 100M users last October — Google's photo app appears to be a hit: CEO Sundar Pichai said today that the Photos service now has 200 million active users every month. — The company announced the news during its annual I/O developer conference.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Android Wear 2.0 gets a keyboard, standalone apps, activity recognition and a new UI — Google's Android Wear smartwatch platform launched more than two years ago and it's now supported by more than a dozen brands and runs on more than 100 watch designs. Today, the company took … Sponsor Posts
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