Samsung’s Galaxy Fold may have gotten the new foldable wave of devices off to a false start, but that hasn’t deterred Google from continuing to work on the platform. At its annual Google I/O developer conference in California on Tuesday the search giant detailed its commitment to foldable devices as part of the next version …
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You’ll soon be able to stop Google Maps from tracking you. The tech giant announced Tuesday that it’s introducing a new privacy feature to its mapping app, called Incognito Mode. When this feature is switched on, people can hide their activity within Google Maps. That means places they’ve searched for or gotten directions to won’t be saved to their Google …
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Google unveiled new Android Q features Tuesday that it says can caption home videos in real time, with no internet connection needed. It’s possible because Google’s speech recognition software requires less processing power, so it can run on your phone or tablet, Google said. That comes with an added privacy benefit. Instead of streaming audio from your device to Google’s …
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Google’s new Android Q operating system will include a lot more parental controls, with the company’s Family Link features built in. When parents set up a phone or tablet for their child, they’ll be able to control and monitor that device using Family Link, a parental control app Google created in 2017. The controls include reviewing apps used and how …
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Google introduced a Focus Mode feature for its Android mobile operating system on Tuesday, letting you temporarily shut off apps you find most distracting so your device automatically tunes them out when you want to concentrate. It’s coming to devices using Android P and Q this fall. “When I enter focus mode, I can select the apps that I find distracting,” …
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Safari did it. Firefox did it. Brave did it. Now Google Chrome, too, is trying to curtail privacy problems posed by cookies — the small text files websites store that can track you online. “We’re changing how cookies work in Chrome, making them more private and secure by default,” said Tal Oppenheimer, a Chrome product manager speaking at the Google …
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If you’re feeling like Google’s data centers are holding back your AI abilities, the company now lets you gang together lots of its tensor processing unit (TPU) chips for better performance. The Google Cloud service now offers TPUs linked together into “pods,” the company announced at its Google I/O conference Tuesday. The resulting speedup is chiefly of interest to the …
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The Pixel 3A isn’t just a one-off affordable Google smartphone. It potentially marks the start of a family of budget devices. At Tuesday’s Google I/O conference, the tech giant said it would continue to bring premium phone products down to a more affordable price point. The company said it plans to release phones “pretty regularly,” but didn’t confirm that it …
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To kick off its I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google has announced the winners of its fourth annual contest for Google Play apps. App developers vied in nine categories, according to Google. Here’s a list of the first-place winners: Standout well-being app Woebot: Your Self-care Expert Developer: Woebot Labs Best Accessibility Experience Envision AI Developer: Envision Technologies BV Best Social Impact Wisdo Developer: …
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Google I/O 2019 starts Tuesday, and attendees of the event will get to try out 5G speeds thanks to Sprint. The mobile carrier said it’ll provide its Sprint 5G network at the conference, held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Sprint said it’ll use Ericsson 5G Massive MIMO radios to deliver both a 5G and LTE signal. Since …
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