Amazon recently updated the Alexa app for Android devices, adding the ability to set it as the default personal assistant on phones and tablets. Now playing: Watch this: Amazon introduces new, easy Alexa Skill builder 1:33 Users have had the option to use Microsoft’s Cortana in place of Google Assistant since 2017, but with Alexa’s …
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Coming to Google Assistant near you: movie-ticket purchasing. Just add that to the long list of what Google Assistant can do. In conjunction with Fandango, Google Assistant can now help you research a film, select a theater near you to see it, or find out where it will be playing when it opens — all via voice. You can also …
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Part One: Patrick goes to Google “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles It’s a sunny day at Google’s campus and I’m serpentining between giant statues of Android mascots. In my hand is a cigarette pack-sized camera with two lenses on it. My phone has two rear cameras so how is this any different? It …
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You rarely see Nokia phones in the US, but little by little that’s changing. The oddly named Nokia 6.1 is the latest attempt to make waves in the open US market. This is very much a budget device that will go toe to toe with Motorola’s Moto G6, a handset with a strong budget pedigree, and the Huawei Honor 7X, …
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The slim button on the left side of the new LG G7 ThinQ phone looks innocent enough. And when you press it, it opens up Google Assistant, a familiar and useful tool that’s already baked in to today’s Android phones. But there’s a problem here, and it’s one we’ve seen Samsung commit to its Bixby Voice software on the Galaxy S9, Galaxy S8 and …
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Microsoft just released its Windows 10 April 2018 Update, and some people who installed it are reporting freezing or hanging after launching Google Chrome. The good news: Microsoft is working on a fix and plans to release it in a May 8 update. Although some people report the issue after launching Chrome, ZDNet reports that Firefox, Office or Visual Studio Code may …
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Google Assistant is already on over 5,000 devices, and smartwatches are some of them. While Google software features can be summoned on Wear OS watches (Wear OS was formerly known as Android Wear), it hasn’t been quite the same as what you can get using a Google Home smart speaker. But it’s become a lot closer now, just a few days …
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Google’s Advanced Protection program isn’t exclusive to Google’s own apps anymore. It’s now bringing iOS users under the umbrella. The company on Thursday announced that it’s expanding its high security features to iOS apps, including Apple Mail, Contacts and Calendar. Google first rolled out the program last October, designed to protect high-risk internet users, like politicians, campaign staffers, business leaders, …
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An update to Google Lens might be right around the corner, but we didn’t get that hint from Google. Instead, LG dropped a reference in a press release for its latest phone, the LG G7 ThinQ. The LG G7 debuts a button on the phone’s side that you can click to open Google Assistant and double-click to snap open Google Lens. “The G7 ThinQ …
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Samsung last year debuted a button on its Galaxy S8 phones that triggers the company’s house-made Bixby Voice assistant. Bixby took months to roll out, but has since become a constant feature on high-end Galaxy phones. Now, LG has done the same, adding a hotkey on the LG G7 ThinQ that opens Google Assistant after you speak a command. Google Assistant …
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