The Google Lens augmented-reality tool is directly integrated into Google’s new Pixel 3 phone, Google said Tuesday at a launch event for several new products. Lens unlocks previously announced capabilities like Style Search, which identifies products online that’re similar to the one you’re pointing your phone’s camera at, or a feature that gives you the option …
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Android TV is taking another stab at the living room. Unlike the $35 Google Chromecast, Google’s big-screen Android TV operating system appears only on relatively expensive devices, namely the $200 Nvidia Shield and Sony TVs, for example. Today Google aims to close the price gap a bit by building Android TV into a new device. The Xiaomi Mi Box S …
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Google has made it possible for you to join the Avengers, unveiling a new AR team-up with Marvel Studios as part of a big hardware event the search giant held Tuesday in New York. At the event, Liza Ma, a Google product manager, and Brian Rakowski, vice president of product management, also revealed that the company is working with actor and …
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One of the worst-kept tech secrets in recent history is officially out of the bag. Google has announced a new tablet, the Pixel Slate, alongside a handful of other new products including the Pixel 3 phone and Home Hub. Google Pixel 2018 event Pixel 3, Google Hub and Pixel Slate: Everything Google announced Google Home Hub wants to finish the job …
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To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Google’s annual fall hardware event proved to be not quite as jam-packed as Amazon’s recent surprise clown-car-full of announcements, but the company did announce the long-expected new phones, plus a tablet, laptop, smart home hub and AR partnerships with Marvel and Childish Gambino. Some might also say Google hopes the Pixel 3 and Home Hub dazzle you enough …
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Ahead of its Pixel event in New York, Google’s Photo app just got an interesting update. It’s a new feature called Live Albums, and it automatically shares photos of people you select with friends and family. Google Assistant also now has the power to sift through, search and organize your photos neatly into albums. The ability comes in version 4.3 …
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Google promises you’ll never have to answer another robocall again. That’s thanks to some new smarts coming to its Pixel smartphones via the Google Assistant. Users can now screen spam calls and get a real time transcription of the call so they can decide whether to answer, hang up, or block the number and report it as spam. Google already …
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Google announced the latest version of its flagship phone, the Pixel 3, on Tuesday. While there’s plenty exciting about the phone itself, Google’s Pixel accessories game is strong this year. Alongside the phone, it’s introducing the Pixel Stand, a smart charging pad equipped with the smarts of Google Assistant. The stand props your phone up at an angle and will …
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With its Pixel 3 phone, Google has improved photography with a feature called Top Shot to avoid unflattering photos, an ability to shoot in the dark with no flash, and a way to zoom in beyond the camera’s ordinary resolution known as Super Res Zoom. Top Shot lets you skip photos where people are blinking, frowning and otherwise not looking …
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The leaks keep on coming. Now playing: Watch this: Google unveils the Pixel 3, Pixel Slate and Home Hub 1:46 Even as Google kicked off its Made By Google event in New York City, Tuesday, a short video appearing to show upcoming product announcements like a new Pixel 3 phone, the Google Home Hub, and the Pixel Slate tablet surfaced …
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