May, 2017

• 18 May

  I/O reactions to the Google Assistant, Home, Photos and more

  

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• 18 May

  FCC votes to start net neutrality rollback

  

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• 17 May

  Amazon chops the price of its Fire HD 8 tablet

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Amazon’s $50 tablet gets a boost — and new colors 1:23 Amazon‘s Fire tablets are all about value. And that’s why the company continues to court bargain hunters with a price cut to the Fire HD 8 and some modest improvements to its entry-level $50 (£50) Fire 7. Enlarge Image The Fire HD 8 just got …

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• 17 May

  Google launches Photo Books

  

  We all know it can take hours or days on end to put images from the Google Photos app into albums. Now, the company says it’s going to make that process much quicker with the launch of a new feature called Photo Books, which is currently available on desktop and will be on smartphones next week. “The way we are …

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• 17 May

  Google adds Smart Reply to Gmail and Allo for Android and iOS

  

  Today Google announced a brand-new feature for Gmail called Smart Reply. It’s basically like predictive typing for email and message replies. Smart Reply works pretty straightforwardly. It uses Google machine learning to suggest three responses to the emails and messages you receive. You can ignore them, or you can pick one and then hit send, or you can add additional …

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• 17 May

  Google Home coming to Australia, sorry Alexa

  

  Google‘s I/O developers conference brought lots of news about the Google Home speaker. It can now make hands-free calls, communicate more with your phone and better integrate streamers like Spotify. Most exciting for those of us Down Under, though, is the news that Google Home is actually coming Down Under. Home is powered by Google Assistant, the tech giant’s AI-powered …

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• 17 May

  Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2017,

  

  Now playing: Watch this: Google Lens is smart enough to identify flower species 1:32 What’s Google got in store for us in 2017 and beyond? We tuned in to its Google I/O developer conference on its 10th anniversary to bring you the lowdown. Unlike the hardware-centric announcements of last October, I/O focuses mostly on software and how to to get …

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• 17 May

  Google Home will soon respond on your TV screen with Chromecast

  

  Looking for more integration between voice control and your TV? Google is here to help. More from Google I/O 2017 Android O, Google Lens and VR: Everything important from Google I/O Google Photo’s AI is better at sharing your photos than you are 5 ways Google Home just got better See all Google I/O 2017 news Today the company announced …

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• 17 May

  Google takes aim at cheap phones, again, with Android Go

  

  Two years ago, a Google senior vice president named Sundar Pichai flew back to his birth country of India to launch a major new initiative aimed at connecting “the next 5 billion.” He was referring to the vast number of people who did not yet have a smartphone. The effort was called Android One, and the goal was to teach …

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• 17 May

  MyMacca’s app makes fast food slightly faster

  

  The Australian fast food industry continues its cutthroat competition to be the most innovative, the most bleeding-edge, the most technologically savvy. While Domino’s pizza-delivering robot is a vision of the far-flung, human-free future, McDonald’s Australia has done one better and launched something you can actually use and not just laugh at. The app is simple. Fire it up, pick your …

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