Now playing: Watch this: Google Assistant rolling out to Android devices now 1:05 Check your phone: Today, Google Assistant is available to more devices running Android 7.0 Nougat and Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The rollout was announced last week, but Google just released a video ad (see it above), signaling that today’s the day more people …
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Wanna play a piano duet but nobody’s around? No worries. You still can, courtesy of Google’s new interactive experiment called A.I. Duet. Basically, you play a few notes and the computer plays other notes in response to your melody. What’s special about A.I. Duet is that it plays with you using machine learning, and not just as a machine that’s …
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Devin Wenig buys his garbage bags, shampoo and even toothpaste on eBay. That’s not typical for your regular eBay customer, who may visit for a car, cardigan or collectible coin. But as eBay’s CEO, the 50-year-old Wenig likes to buy as much as he can from the site, now the world’s third-largest e-retailer after Amazon and Alibaba. See also Looking …
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Google sweated the small stuff for the Pixel, its first homemade phone. We dive into some of the design and aesthetic decisions the search giant made to create the device, including its slight wedge shape to get rid of a camera bump and its unadulterated Android software. Also on today’s show, we talk about Verizon’s bid for Yahoo, which now …
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In this week’s This Feels A Little Like Skynet: IBM built a new voice assistant using artificial intelligence called Hayvn, focused on cybersecurity. Think of it as Amazon Alexa, but instead of ordering soap, it’s helping you manage threats. Sure, this might sound like it’s ripped straight out of the plot for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, in which …
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Two weeks ahead of LG’s Mobile World Congress 2017 event, the South Korean phone maker sent out a couple of online teasers about its upcoming marquee handset, the G6. There have been two teasers that we know so far. One (above) reads, “More Juice. To go.” This could mean the G6 has a swappable battery, which contradicts existing rumors that …
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In the minds of many, NBN equals speed. Or at least, it’s meant to. When’s it coming to my street? Why am I not getting full fibre? Why can’t I have crazy fast broadband right the hell now? Well, it turns out the NBN is ready to offer gigabit speeds right now, but retailers aren’t selling them. With last month’s …
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We’ve heard that the Galaxy S8 is rumored to get an AI assistant called Bixby, but Bixby may not be alone. Samsung recently filed a trademark in Europe for something called “Samsung Hello” and based on its description, it could also be powered by AI. Alleged renders of the Galaxy S8 and larger Galaxy S8 Plus OnLeaks AI is poised …
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This, my friends, this glorious TV and movie trope, may be coming true. The ability to “zoom and enhance” an image, one that’s far too low-res for humans to understand, is now way, way closer thanks to a team of AI researchers at Google. Behold: Enlarge Image Google At left, the crummy low-res image the computer had to work with. …
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Blind users of Facebook just got an upgrade in the social network’s ability to explain photos to them — and the same technology helps everyone else, too. In brief, Facebook’s artificial intelligence technology now uses verbs, not just nouns, in the photo captions that computers can read to blind people. “Until recently, these captions described only the objects in the …
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