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| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Google Assistant gets new abilities including ordering food for pickup and delivery, and further streamlines the feature with partners like Starbucks and Panera — Feeling hungry? Pretty soon, you'll be able to order dinner using Google Assistant on your Android phone.
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| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Assistant's continued conversations, slated for summer, leaves mic on so users don't have to repeatedly say “Hey, Google”; “Thank you” will turn it off — Google wants Google Assistant to be more conversational, but one of the least conversational aspects of talking to it is a necessary evil.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it's adding six new voices, both male and female, to Assistant and will add musician John Legend's later this year — Not to be outdone by recent upgrades to Alexa and Siri, Google today announced that it's adding not one, but six new voices to its Assistant offering.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Preview of changes and features coming in Android P: focus on “Digital Well Being” including usage dashboard, visual tweaks, gestures, and deeper AI integration — How the new update could help you use your phone less — This year, Google is doing something different with Android.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware — As the war for creating customized AI hardware heats up, Google is now rolling out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0. — Google joins pretty much every other major company in looking …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds Smart Compose feature to Gmail, which suggests phrases as you type and lets users autocomplete them by hitting tab, rolling out to all this month — Following a big revamp to Gmail last month, Google is adding a new machine learning feature this month.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos adds more AI-suggested actions, including colorization tweaks, automatically converting images to PDF, and more; roll out starts this week — Google Photos already makes it easy for users to correct their photos with built-in editing tools and clever, A.I.-powered features …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Equifax finally fully discloses data breach impact in SEC filing: 145.5M SSNs, 99M addresses, 20M phone numbers, 17.6M driver's license numbers, more exposed — 17.6 million driver's license numbers, thousands of ID images stolen in breach. — On May 7, executives of Equifax submitted a …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Google unveils redesigned Google News, based on its Material Design language, with aim of helping surface stories and supporting publications, rolling out today — Google is giving Google News a refresh that brings all its news products into one experience, the company announced at its annual developer's conference.
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| Aditi Roy / CNBC: |
Uber unveils its flying car prototype that conducts vertical takeoffs and landings, has four rotors on wings, and flies 1,000-2,000 feet above ground — Uber has unveiled its “flying car” concept aircraft at its second annual Uber Elevate Summit, which showcases prototypes for its fleet of airborne taxis.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google says it's using DeepMind's AI to improve battery life in Android P by learning user habits to increase efficiency — No surprise here, Android P was the highlight of today's Google I/O keynote. The new version of the company's mobile operating system still doesn't have a name … | Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
Despite Amazon's efforts, paid reviewers who organize via Reddit, Slack, Discord, and Facebook are still flooding the site with fake reviews — One morning in late January, Jake picked up the box on his desk, tore through the packing tape, unearthed the iPhone case inside, snapped a picture …
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| Washington Post: |
The White House will host a summit on AI on Thursday, convening executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, and 34 other major US companies — The White House on Thursday plans to convene executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook announces it will stop accepting foreign-funded ads relating to Ireland's referendum vote on abortion, which is later this month — Facebook has announced it has stopped accepting ads paid for by foreign entities that are related to a referendum vote in Ireland later this month …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Microsoft says it will give app developers an 85%-95% cut for all non-game apps, up from current 70%; new fee structure will go into effect later this year — Planned dev deal tweak lets programmers keep 95 per cent of revenue — Build Microsoft says it will take less money …
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| Elizabeth Segran / Fast Company: |
Instagram announces new tools for businesses including improved DMs and integrations for booking events with OpenTable, Fandango, Eventbrite, Yelp, others — If you spend as much time on Instagram as I do, you may have run into the following problem: You're scrolling through the app …
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Engadget, Instagram for Business, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Hollywood Reporter, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, and The Wrap. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Slack says it has 8M DAUs with 3M paid users, up from 6M DAUs it announced last September — As Slack looks to woo larger and larger companies with the prospect of a simpler workplace collaboration tool, the company said it has now hit 8 million daily active users. — The company said it also has 3 million paid users.
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Business Insider, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, and Axios
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Gmail's iOS app now lets you send and request money via Google Pay, launching first in US, and adds a snooze email function — Google today is rolling out a notable update to the Gmail application for iOS. The update brings support for snoozing emails, as well as sending money with Google Pay...
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Macworld, MacRumors, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, The Economic Times, Engadget, and Cult of Mac
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Uber hires former NTSB chairman to advise the company on its safety culture; report says that a software flaw was responsible for the fatal accident in March — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said Monday it has hired a former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) …
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