When you want answers fast, chances are you think of Google: What’s the name of Prince’s third album? How tall is the Empire State Building? How long is a flight from San Francisco to New Orleans? That seemingly infinite breadth of knowledge made Google one of the most powerful companies on the planet. Now, the …
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In Google’s version of the future, a drone could deliver your pizza. The search giant’s parent company, Alphabet, is considering the launch of a drone delivery endeavor, called Wing Marketplace, for shuttling food through the air to consumers, according to a report Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal. The company has met with Domino’s Pizza and grocer Whole Foods as …
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Google is trying to reinvent the emergency contact form for the smartphone era. The search giant on Monday unveiled a new app called Trusted Contacts, which aims to keep you safe in dicey situations — anything from a natural disaster to a walk home on a dark street. The app, only available for now on phones running Google’s Android mobile …
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Donald Trump won the popular vote. The Clinton Foundation bought $137 million worth of illegal arms and ammunition. An FBI agent associated with Hillary Clinton’s email leaks was found dead in a murder-suicide. The Pope endorsed Trump. If you saw any of these stories on the internet over the past few weeks, let’s be crystal clear: They’re not true. But …
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World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you’re in luck. Google said Tuesday it has vastly improved its Google Translate app, available on phones and the web. The search giant said it’s now incorporating “neural machine translation” into the software, which means it can translate whole sentences at a time, instead of breaking the text down to smaller chunks …
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You really can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google on Monday acknowledged its algorithms screwed up and that it placed a fake news story about Donald Trump winning the popular vote in last week’s election prominently in the search engine’s widely-read news section. “The goal of Search is to provide the most relevant and useful results for our …
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Google’s Android software powers almost 9 out of every 10 smartphones in the world. Now Google is hoping its app store can keep up. The search giant is making changes to Google Play, its online marketplace where you can download apps and games, Google said during a software developer event in San Francisco on Thursday. The company is also making …
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You’d be forgiven if you thought Google was moving beyond its search engine, which allowed it to become one of the most powerful companies on the planet. After all, Google’s biggest recent announcements have been around devices: a new phone called Pixel, the first real Google phone; a smart home hub; a new streaming video device; and a Wi-Fi router. …
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It’s finally here: the Google Phone. Well, not quite. It’s officially called “Pixel, Phone by Google,” and the search giant unveiled it Tuesday during a much-hyped event in San Francisco. The Pixel, available with either a 5-inch or 5.5-inch display, is a grown up Google phone, meant to compete with the top brass of the smartphone world, including Samsung and …
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Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, someone inevitably mentions Skynet, the destructive machine system in the Terminator movies. But we shouldn’t be worried about a dystopian rise of the robots. At least that’s the opinion of John Giannandrea, Google’s chief of search and the company’s former AI boss. Why? Because we’re so far away from anything that would even resemble …
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