Hillary Clinton has achieved an unusual accomplishment: more Google searches than her competitor. Searches for the Democratic nominee outpaced those for Republican challenger Donald Trump 60 percent to 40 percent during the pair’s spirited and closely watched debate on Monday night, according to Google. Interest in the former secretary of state was greater than that …
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If there’s smoke, there must be fire. In this case, the heat centers on a Twitter purchase as Walt Disney becomes the latest company rumored to eye the stagnating microblogging service, according Bloomberg News. The report Monday follows CNBC’s story last week that several tech companies, including Google and Salesforce, would soon make formal bids for Twitter. Disney’s interest stems …
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Now playing: Watch this: Roku releases five new TV streamers, and the cheapest… 2:16 Update: We’ve now published reviews of the $30 Roku Express and the $40 Express+. We’ll review the 4K Roku boxes soon. Roku just made choosing a new streaming player five times more difficult, and at least five bucks cheaper than the competition. The giant-killing company’s products …
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Is Google Allo the next big thing in messaging apps? Maybe…or maybe not. The new “smart” messaging app is actually pretty straightforward — especially if you’ve used its competitors, such as Whatsapp or Line, in the past — but it does have a few tricks up its sleeve (namely, that in-chat Google search that nobody will ever be able to …
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Google’s Allo gives users a messaging app with Google Assistant built in, offering automatically generated responses called Smart Replies and other computer-generated suggestions for your everyday life. To make those features as useful as possible, Google made a trade-off with your privacy, the company confirmed Wednesday. Instead of keeping your messages on company servers for a short period of time, …
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Things didn’t go so well when the humans of “2001: A Space Odyssey” tangled with artificial intelligence. Fortunately, Google’s Allo is much friendlier. In the classic 1968 movie, astronaut Dave Bowman asked eerie supercomputer HAL to open the ship’s pod bay doors and let him back inside. HAL infamously replied, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Happily, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Comcast going cellular, Google teases possible Pixel… 1:48 Google said late Monday it will hold a media event in San Francisco next month, at which it is expected to unveil its new flagship phone. The October 4 event was announced in a YouTube video that shows the web giant’s familiar horizontal search bar slowly morphing into …
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Now playing: Watch this: Google Allo puts an assistant in your pocket 1:37 Life is full of tough conversations. When push comes to shove, you have only two options: Be an adult and tackle them head on, or let an app generate replies so you don’t have to. Cowering behind an app may not be the most mature approach to …
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Enlarge Image AT&T’s Project AirGig would attach antennas onto power lines to send data signals around the wires, instead of through them. Courtesy of AT&T Internet access could soon be synonymous with electricity in AT&T’s latest project. The Dallas telecommunications giant on Tuesday revealed Project AirGig, which aims to deliver “low-cost, multi-gigabit wireless internet speeds” using power lines. AT&T Labs …
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This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, more than 1.1 million …
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