Like Facebook and Apple before it, Google has introduced a new user privacy policy to comply with a new European data privacy law — General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — that goes into effect on May 25. Google’s updated privacy policy makes it easier to understand what information it collects about you. More importantly, Google …
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When Google revealed Gmail’s new look in April, it unveiled some new features too. There’s a new offline mode, a new tool for sending self-destructing messages, and Smart Replies. Going one step further than basic replies, Google announced a new Smart Compose feature at Google I/O last week. The feature was promised to launch in the coming days and weeks, but …
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Google wants to trick you into thinking machines are human. That’s a theme the tech titan pushed as it rolled out new features for its Google Assistant voice software at Google I/O, Google’s annual conference for developers. Google Assistant is in nearly every Android phone, the Google Home smart speaker and drives future smart displays, which means that robo-voices that …
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Still resisting the notch fever sweeping phone designs these days? Give it up. Google has. The Android P beta, a build meant for app developers that anyone is free to download and use, supports not one, but three different notch designs. There’s the central Cycloptic notch we find in phones like the iPhone X, Huawei P20, LG G7 and Essential …
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There’s been an awful lot of hacks in the news recently, and it’s always frustrating to see my oh-so-personal phone (in my case, a Motorola Moto Z2 Play) go months without a patch. Google is pretty quick to issue them, but it takes longer for OEMs like Motorola and Samsung to get with the program, and I’ve definitely noticed some major …
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The future of Google VR needs to work better with my hands. But…maybe not just yet. Google’s next wave of VR just arrived a few days ago, in the form of a standalone headset called the Lenovo Mirage Solo. It’s an impressive demonstration of how VR will start to involve larger-scale tracking. But it doesn’t have a new, next-generation set …
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Google and Qualcomm are working on a next generation of smartwatches that should be arriving this fall, and more possible details continue to arrive during this year’s Google developer conference. Google is expected to finally make its own watch through its internal hardware division — or its own watches, according to the latest report from German tech site Winfuture.de. The …
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Google’s Android P beta software brings radical change to the way that you’ll navigate an Android phone. As with the iPhone X, Android P is all about gestures. Case in point: You swipe up from the bottom to see an overview of all your apps and to open the app drawer, and swipe left and right to select apps. It’d …
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Google I/O, the Big G’s annual developer conference, crammed in a mind-boggling number of demos and announcements to show off advancements in everything that the tech behemoth touches. These are the changes that’ll you’ll use every day on your phone, your work and your home. The most important updates come to Google Assistant, Android, Google Maps and AR. Now …
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Tuesday, at the I/O 2018 conference, Google announced that users would soon be able to choose among six new voices, including the voice of John Legend. These new voices are powered by WaveNet, an AI-based voice synthesizer created by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google UK. Now playing: Watch this: Give Google Assistant a new voice 1:41 WaveNet lets Google simulate entire …
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