Google has begun using artificial intelligence to categorize Android apps on its Google Play store, the company said Tuesday. Using technology called a neural network, which is based loosely on the way human brains work, Google processes app names and descriptions to try to figure out which ones to show in search results. It’s not …
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Now playing: Watch this: The Google Pixel’s camera continues to wow us 3:03 Google Pixel owners, I have good news: Gone are the days of installing an OS update on your Android device, causing you to spend hours looking at a funky Android robot on the screen and waiting for apps to update. Starting with Android 7.1 Nougat (currently available …
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Sorry today’s Social Cues is late. Like so many of you, I was out voting this morning! Election Day is dominating Twitter and Facebook, as the country decides who will be the next president. After more than a year of trending topics for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — and that time Gary Johnson drew a blank on Aleppo …
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If something about the Google Home voice-operated speaker sounds familiar, there’s a good reason: apparently much of its muscle is borrowed from the tech giant’s Chromecast. That was the conclusion of iFixit, which routinely conducts teardowns of new products to find out what makes them tick. iFixit’s latest target was the $130 smart home speaker, which showcases the artificially intelligent, …
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Vevo added a tool to its site Monday that lets users make shareable animated GIFs out of five seconds of many of its music videos. It’s Vevo’s latest lure to hook music video lovers, hoping it can entice them to watch more of its videos on its own site rather than YouTube. Vevo is a bedrock for music videos on …
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Shoppers looking for a prepaid phone will have two more options to choose from on Verizon’s network. Starting November 13, new 5 GB and 10 GB data plans join the carrier’s 3GB and 6GB plans. 5GB plan: $50 a month gets you unlimited talk and text in the U.S., carryover data when you pay on time, mobile hotspot capabilities and …
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LG is stepping up its Android game, on Tuesday beginning the rollout of Android 7.0 Nougat to the G5. That makes the G5 the first non-Google phone to receive the update. Meanwhile, the recent Google Pixel and LG’s V20 were shipped with Nougat. LG said G5’s in South Korea will get the update first, with the Americas and Asia getting …
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YouTube is firing up support for videos shot in high-dynamic-range, a picture quality growing more popular among TV makers. High-dynamic range accentuates color and amps up the contrast between the brightest whites and darkest blacks, improving overall image quality. The announcement by Google’s YouTube coincides with the rollout this month of the Chromecast Ultra streaming device, also made by Google. …
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On a cloudy day this May, in the dull fluorescent light of a plain white Google conference room, Rafa Camargo, Richard Wooldridge and Blaise Bertrand told CNET their plan to disrupt the phone market. Ara, a Lego-like phone with modular parts, would let buyers snap on a better camera, additional batteries or any other creative hardware a developer might dream …
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The SMS text-messaging experience hasn’t changed much in more than 20 years. But that will change for Sprint subscribers on Android devices starting today thanks to a new update to Google‘s Messenger app. Google said in a blog Friday that Sprint will be the first carrier to use its RCS-enabled Messenger app to update its text messaging service on Android …
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