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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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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: in massive reorg, Facebook's CPO Chris Cox will now lead Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger apps; David Marcus to lead a blockchain group — WhatsApp, Messenger and Facebook's core app are getting new leaders as part of a massive executive reorg.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
A look at Google's experimental Duplex tech, demoed at I/O, enabling Assistant to place voice calls for you, make restaurant and barber reservations, more — The conversation seems mundane. At least, at first. — In a building called the Partnerplex on Google's sprawling campus in Mountain View …
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| Google AI Blog: |
Breakdown of how Google Duplex works, with several audio examples of how the assistant would interact over the phone, handling interruptions, elaborating, more — Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @daveyalba, @google, @lanceulanoff, @sundarpichai, @geoffreyfowler, @cwarzel, and @hunterwalk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces ML Kit, an SDK for developers to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps, with offline AI models provided for free — At its I/O developer conference, Google today introduced ML Kit, a new software development kit (SDK) for app developers on iOS and Android that allows …
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VentureBeat, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Android Police, ZDNet, NDTV Gadgets 360, Phone Scoop, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @reza_zadeh, @paulrteich, @ryanshrout, @geoffblaber, and @ryanshrout
| 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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Engadget, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNET, BleepingComputer.com, Android Police, Android Police, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, and Android Police. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 11.4, currently in beta, introduces USB Restricted Mode that disables Lightning port after a week of not entering passcode — The iOS 11.4 update, currently being beta tested, includes a USB Restricted Mode that introduces a week-long expiration date on access to the Lightning port …
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ElcomSoft blog, VentureBeat, CNET, Cyberscoop, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone Hacks
| 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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Tweets: @drewharwell, @conspirator0, @mylesudland, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Nintendo announces its $20/year online service for Switch, lets users back up game data to cloud, gives access to 20 NES games; no plans for a Virtual Console — The announcement of an online service for the Nintendo Switch yesterday raised more questions than answers, it seems.
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Kotaku, Nintendo.com, Ars Technica, The Next Web, CNET, International Business Times, Polygon, TechSpot, Siliconera, Liliputing, and SlashGear
| Aditi Roy / CNBC: |
Uber unveils its flying car concept 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.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google Maps to get AR directions and recommendation features through a “For you” tab, as well as new social features like voting on where to eat, coming summer — Plus, the ability to vote on restaurants with friends — Google showed off new features for Google Maps at I/O today …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Android Police, Android Authority, ZDNet, Bloomberg, and Mashable
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Google announces update to Lens, rolling out end of May, focusing on shopping, text-reading, and language support; some handsets will offer Lens from camera app — WHEN GOOGLE FIRST announced Google Lens last year, it was described as a kind of search in reverse.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Android Police, Android Authority, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @google
| 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 … | 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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