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Some Google Pixel owners can now use the company’s Duplex service to do their talking, just as Google promised last month. The search giant’s human-sounding artificial intelligence call service is available to a “small group” of Pixel owners in “select cities,” VentureBeat reported Wednesday. It started limited beta testing in June. Google confirmed the accuracy of …

Apple quietly bought artificial intelligence startup Silk Labs, according to a report. The acquisition occurred earlier this year, The Information reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed source. Silk Labs specializes in developing on-device AI software, meaning it doesn’t have to communicate with the cloud, where companies potentially would have access to huge amounts of personal data. The San Mateo, California, company …

The Google Clips camera is like your personal AI photographer. You set it aside and every time something “interesting” happens (which it determines using AI) it records a 7-second video. Google says it’s meant to capture those little moments you might miss — isn’t that sweet? But what’s not so sweet is its retail price: $249. In CNET’s review of …

Google’s computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that’ll appear in the newspaper’s features about history. The newspaper’s “morgue” has 5 million to 7 million photos dating back to the 1870s, including prints and contact sheets showing all the shots on photographers’ rolls of film. The …

Samsung’s Bixby digital assistant is getting a boost in capabilities — but the question is whether it’s too late. The South Korean company on Wednesday will kick off its two-day developer conference in San Francisco, an annual event that reflects the company’s big push to get developers to make software specifically for its devices. In the past, that’s meant making …

A long-promised chip manufacturing technique is now here. And that means our phones will keep getting faster, while our batteries will last longer.  Samsung on Wednesday said it’s now building 7-nanometer chips using technology called extreme ultraviolet, or EUV. EUV has been in development for decades, but it’s been difficult to roll out in real world factories. Samsung now is …

Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday.  Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …

This might sound a bit meta, but Microsoft is applying new digital brains to cut down on the difficulties of using artificial intelligence technology. Artificial intelligence, which these days typically refers to technology called neural networks or machine learning modeled loosely on human brains, is moving from the exotic to the mainstream in the computing world. But that doesn’t make …

Writing got a lot easier when spellcheckers and grammar checkers arrived on the scene. Now Facebook is using artificial intelligence to give programmers a similar boost with a tool called SapFix that’ll debug their software. “SapFix can automatically generate fixes for specific bugs, and then propose them to engineers for approval and deployment to production,” Facebook engineers Yue Jia, Ke …

It’s hard to know what the future will bring, but a majority of US consumers think that five decades from now, we’ll all be overly dependent on tech and spend less time interacting with each other.   At the same time, consumers believe tech makes our lives easier and are most enthusiastic about where things are headed with computers, smartphones …