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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos adds suggested sharing based on who's in photos, shared libraries, which let friends see shots taken in real time, and printed photo books service — “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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| 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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Home adds hands-free calling, proactive assistance, Bluetooth streaming, visual responses via connected devices, Spotify Free and SoundCloud support — At I/O 2017, Google has announced a slew of new features for their Home connected speaker. Major new features include hands-free calling …
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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google brings Assistant to the iPhone as a standalone app, available first in the US — 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. Until now, the only way iPhone users …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
How Google plans to make Assistant ubiquitous in order to challenge Siri and Alexa, both of which have their own strong incumbent advantages — Everybody just wants the Star Trek computer. — We all know how it works: an ambient AI that's available everywhere, knows nearly everything … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Voice-activated Google Actions, the company's answer to Alexa's Skills, expand beyond Home devices and Allo to Android and iOS via Google Assistant — Actions on Google - the voice-activated apps that are Google's answer to Alexa's Skills - are expanding to the new platforms of iOS and Android …
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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.
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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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| 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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| 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 … | Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
Qualcomm sues iPhone manufacturers Compal, Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron for failing to pay royalties, broadening its legal battle with Apple — Qualcomm sued the companies that make iPhones for Apple for failing to pay royalties on the chip maker's technology, broadening its legal battle with the world's most valuable company.
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Apple has begun initial production of a small number of iPhone SE handsets in Bangalore and will begin shipping them to Indian customers this month — An Apple manufacturer has completed a trial run of the first-ever iPhones assembled in India, in an important step in the U.S. tech giant's push …
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