Google Assistant will now take an active role in helping you book a ride. Ask it for a ride to the airport or a local restaurant, and the digital assistant on your phone will pull info from popular ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. You’ll see wait times and prices compared, and if you choose …
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Google Assistant is opening itself up to new forms of communication. Starting today, when you pull up Google Assistant on your phone, you’ll see extra visuals and new ways of interacting by touch. Google is announcing the changes via a blog post Wednesday as the company prepares for its Made by Google event on Oct. 9. Rolled out initially as …
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By now you’re probably aware of Roku. It’s a company that creates streaming video players — you know, little devices that play Netflix and YouTube on your TV — as well as an operating system for Smart TVs. We like Roku streamers and TVs a lot here at CNET. Most are cheap and good. Now the company has two new …
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Now you can identify tens of millions of songs. On Friday, Google said it has integrated its Sound Search function into Now Playing, a music recognition feature, to faster and more accurately and faster match songs. Sound Search works on Google’s Search app, Google Assistant or any Android phone. To use the service, start a voice query. If there’s music playing near …
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Argos has launched a voice-activated shopping service that lets you ask Google Assistant to reserve products for in-store pick-up. It’s the first UK retailer to offer such a service. You can also use it to check the availability of up to 20,000 products from the Argos catalogue. And you can find your nearest store on Google Home or Home Mini …
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Last Wednesday, a seemingly innocuous request appeared in Google’s Chromium codebase: “Add mappings for “Hamburger” and “Assistant” keys on Hammer/Wand/Whiskers and BRYDGE keyboards.” But that single sentence may have been enough to reveal a secret — Google may be planning to bring a new wave of high-end Chrome OS tablets to market. That’s because Brydge is the name of a …
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The Earin M-2 truly wireless earbuds were supposed to ship in March 2017. Needless to say, they missed that date by a hair — but maybe good things come to those who wait? Twenty months later, the ultralight buds are finally shipping for $249 (roughly £200 or AU$350 converted) a pair. Not only does Earin claim they’re still the smallest …
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The competition among smartwatches and fitness wearables is heating up like never before: Fitbit has a new model, there’s a new Samsung smartwatch and Apple is expected to have a new watch soon. Not surprisingly, Google is upping its game, too: The company’s line of Wear OS smartwatches is getting some overdue software updates starting the middle of September, alongside …
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The great smartwatch showdown is underway, and one of the most stylish Google WearOS smartwatches is getting a big set of fitness updates. The Skagen Falster 2, arriving Sept. 12 — possibly the same day as Apple’s next Watch unveiling — does look more promising than the good-looking but bare-bones first-generation Falster watch from earlier this year. The Falster 2 …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. One of the most anticipated smartphone throwdowns of the year — the 2018 iPhones and the Google Pixel 3 — will be about far more than just phones. It will go to the root of the competition between Apple’s iOS 12 software and Google’s Android …
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