Google’s next big event is on October 4 — more than 24 hours away — but you may not have to wait to get the scoop on the company’s new flagship phones. Carphone Warehouse, the UK electronics retailer, appears to have leaked all the major features of both new devices. Enlarge Image The best alleged …
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Yes, for years Facebook failed to notice it was overestimating a video metric, but don’t worry about it: None of its now 4 million advertisers paid any attention to the measurement to begin with, Facebook executives said Tuesday. “Universally, I’ve heard that nobody has actually unitized that metric,” Carolyn Everson, the company’s vice president of global marketing solutions, said at …
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Things didn’t go so well when the humans of “2001: A Space Odyssey” tangled with artificial intelligence. Fortunately, Google’s Allo is much friendlier. In the classic 1968 movie, astronaut Dave Bowman asked eerie supercomputer HAL to open the ship’s pod bay doors and let him back inside. HAL infamously replied, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Happily, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Comcast going cellular, Google teases possible Pixel… 1:48 Google said late Monday it will hold a media event in San Francisco next month, at which it is expected to unveil its new flagship phone. The October 4 event was announced in a YouTube video that shows the web giant’s familiar horizontal search bar slowly morphing into …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google Allo puts an assistant in your pocket 1:37 Life is full of tough conversations. When push comes to shove, you have only two options: Be an adult and tackle them head on, or let an app generate replies so you don’t have to. Cowering behind an app may not be the most mature approach to …
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Apps. How retro. Bookings by bots are outstripping the growth of the early app economy, according to a Citigroup research note reported by Bloomberg. Bots, short for chatbots, are software applications that use artificial intelligence to do simple tasks: answer a question, write an email or book travel. Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s messaging service, …
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Artificial intelligence today can organize your iPhone photos, answer your Gmail, endow drones with vision and decode human speech. And with Microsoft’s newest SwiftKey keyboard app, AI will guess what you’re about to type next, too. On Thursday, Microsoft released a new version of its SwiftKey for Android that includes an AI technology called a neural network to try to …
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A nondescript building hidden away in Silicon Valley might hold the key to an NFL team’s Super Bowl chances. Inside, dozens of colorful computers and widescreens at Zebra Technologies‘ command center intricately track the on-field movements of all the nearly 1,700 players active across each week’s National Football League games. The San Jose, California-based company gets the data through nickel-size …
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Want a smarter Alexa, savvier Siri, brainier Google Now or a cleverer Cortana? So do Amazon, Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft — and each is working to make its voice assistant your personal Einstein of choice. Amazon recently enhanced its efforts by nabbing an AI expert from eBay, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Hassan Sawaf is now Amazon’s director of …
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As Steve Martin put it: “Some people have a way with words, and other people, oh… not have way.” Not sure where you fall in that spectrum? The creators of Boomerang — a great Gmail and Outlook plug-in that works like a snooze button for email — have added a writing asset called Respondable. Its goal: to help you write …
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