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| 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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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| 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 … | CNET: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's new Assistant, messaging apps, more and the company's vision for AI — Sundar Pichai, who takes the I/O stage for the first time since becoming CEO in October, says he's on a “journey” from mobile to AI. Good thing he has an assistant.
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| 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 …
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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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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Xiaomi announces the Mi Box, a 4K Android TV set-top box with Bluetooth voice remote, coming to US soon — You might have noticed that there aren't a lot of Android TV boxes around. Aside from the original Nexus Player, the much-recommended NVIDIA SHIELD, and the generally regrettable Razer Forge TV …
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| 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 … | 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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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon is planning more physical stores and new services for Prime, during annual shareholder meeting — CEO Jeff Bezos didn't specify how the company would add to the unlimited shipping service — Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos on Tuesday promised more retail stores … | 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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MediaNama, The Verge, Digital Trends, Handset Blog, SlashGear, eWeek, WinBeta, TechnoBuffalo, InfoWorld and FierceMobileIT News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Android Wear 2.0 hands-on: new interface is much improved and easier to use, third-party complications are useful, but the QWERTY keyboard is not impressive — One of the surprise announcements from Google's keynote session at I / O this year was Android Wear 2.0.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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