Livestream It’s time for Google to show us its roadmap for 2017 and beyond. The search giant has once again taken over the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, for its annual Google I/O developers conference, which runs today through Friday. What to expect While ostensibly targeted at the army of developers working in the …
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Google‘s I/O developers conference brought lots of news about the Google Home speaker. It can now make hands-free calls, communicate more with your phone and better integrate streamers like Spotify. Most exciting for those of us Down Under, though, is the news that Google Home is actually coming Down Under. Home is powered by Google Assistant, the tech giant’s AI-powered …
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We all know it can take hours or days on end to put images from the Google Photos app into albums. Now, the company says it’s going to make that process much quicker with the launch of a new feature called Photo Books, which is currently available on desktop and will be on smartphones next week. “The way we are …
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Two years ago, a Google senior vice president named Sundar Pichai flew back to his birth country of India to launch a major new initiative aimed at connecting “the next 5 billion.” He was referring to the vast number of people who did not yet have a smartphone. The effort was called Android One, and the goal was to teach …
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Count it as a promise for zombies and time travel fulfilled. AMC Networks, home of The Walking Dead and owner of BBC America, where Doctor Who plies his era-hopping trade, is now available on YouTube TV. The service announced the new additions in a tweet Monday. Before you get too excited, remember that YouTube TV is not regular old YouTube. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s new Chromebook Pro hybrid can run a universe… 1:44 With Android Nougat adding full support for a Night Light mode, it was only a matter of time before Google added the feature to Chrome OS. Night Light, also commonly referred to as night mode, limits the amount of blue light your display uses, which, in …
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Move over, Siri. Google is reportedly planning to launch its Google Assistant iOS app this week, according to Android Police. The annual Google I/O conference takes place Wednesday through Friday near the company’s global headquarters in Mountain View, California. CNET will be on the ground covering the event live. Assistant is Google’s AI helper designed to compete with Apple‘s Siri, …
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Now playing: Watch this: 3 ways to email photos in iOS 1:44 With Instagram, I email photos with less frequency than I used to. And I turn to Google Photos or Dropbox if I want to share an album’s worth of vacation photos or some other event. On occasion, however, I just need to email a photo to somebody, and …
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Global tech giants Google, Apple and Amazon have all developed their own voice assistants, and South Korea’s biggest search engine is following in their footsteps. Today, South Korean tech giant Naver announced the launch of its AI-powered “cloud voice assistant” app Clova. It was developed with its Japanese subsidiary Line, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps. Clova will …
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Now playing: Watch this: The LG G6 gives the people what they (mostly) want 2:41 LG‘s flagship of the year, the G6, is now available unlocked for purchase at online retailers and for preorder at LG’s site. Though Amazon currently lists it for about $630, others like B&H and LG are selling it for $700. The phone marks LG’s return …
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