Android P is coming. Google’s next operating system will support navigational gestures similar to the iPhone X’s and employ sophisticated AI to help extend battery life. No, it doesn’t have a name yet — Android Plum? Peppermint? Parsnip? — or a release date, but the good news is you can get the Android P beta …
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Colorizing old black-and-white photos is just one of the new AI-powered features for Google Photos. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced new AI features for Google Photos, its platform for storing and sending images. At Google’s annual developers conference, company CEO Sundar Pichai talked about all the different ways artificial intelligence can help with its products. Pichai introduced …
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Google updated its News app on Tuesday, adding artificial intelligence to help users find personalized stories and trustworthy sources. Now playing: Watch this: Google News uses AI to give you the news you want 2:43 The new version of Google News will scan millions of articles, videos, podcasts and comments from around the web using AI to assemble them based …
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Nothing like throwing money at the problem. At Microsoft’s Build 2018 developers conference, the company announced that later this year it will start to give developers 95 percent of the revenue earned on the Microsoft Store from app purchases or any in-app products. The app purchase needs to be made from a deep link like one on the developer’s website. …
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It’s time to put the phone down, and Google — yes, the company behind the world’s most popular smartphone operating system — wants to help with that. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced a set of new features for Android designed to manage how much time people spend on devices. It may seem counterintuitive for a tech company …
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After a first day full of mind-melting discussion about what’s next in AI, cloud computing, machine learning and a Cortana-Alexa friendship, Microsoft’s Build 2018 continued with its second-day keynote. Day 2 was considerably quieter, but we still saw a few interesting announcements about phone and PC integration, Windows Sets and incentives for app developers. Here’s the news from day 2 of Build 2018: …
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Update: Watch live coverage of Google I/O here. Google I/O starts next Tuesday, May 8 and — like always — we’ll be there to bring you all the latest from the company as it’s announced. Just like last year it will take place at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California, and we’ll hear what Google has planned for developers as …
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Good news if you’re a Chrome OS power user: You’ll soon be able to run Linux software like programming tools, photo editors and word processors on the Google operating system. At its Google I/O show Tuesday, the company announced it’s released a test version of software that brings the Debian Stretch version of Linux to its personal computer software. Right …
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Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer’s conference, kicked off today at 10 a.m. PT. Here’s everything Google announced at the keynote. Here are some other notable Google I/O announcements from today: Google’s Duplex could make Assistant the most lifelike AI yet 3 ways Google Maps just got better Android P will give Android gestures like the iPhone X Get …
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When will we start to experience multiplayer augmented reality that blends a shared space between phones? Oh, in the next couple of weeks. While AR and VR announcements were generally on the quiet front at this year’s Google I/O Developer Conference, a new update to Google’s ARCore called Cloud Anchors is extremely exciting. Let me explain, because I just played …
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