A few days ago, at Google's annual I/O developer conference, the search giant revealed a new AI system called Duplex. It can book appointments for you by carrying out natural conversations over the phone, but what happens when a company makes a computer system sound too human?
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Google just opened its annual I/O developer conference for 2018, rolling out several big announcements during the opening keynote. We've got news on Android P, Google Maps, Google News, Google Assistant and more β here's what coming to Google's apps and services in the months ahead.
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Since it launched in April 2004, Gmail has been one of the standard bearers for web-based email, and Google just announced a major refresh for it. As well as a visual overhaul, Gmail is getting confidential emails, the option to snooze messages, and smart replies, among other new features.
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Just days after we saw the first Chrome OS tablet arrive, there's another new form factor for Google's desktop operating system. Enter the HP Chromebook x2, a detachable Chromebook that follows the template laid down by Microsoft's Surface Book and gives Chrome OS fans another option to pick from.
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Samsung has finally unleashed its latest flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, into the wild. Now itβs time to see how they stack up against the other main Android player, as New Atlas compares the specs and features of the Galaxy S9 and S9+ to the Google Pixel 2 and 2 XL.
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Acer and Google have unveiled the first tablet device running Chrome OS, the Chromebook Tab 10. It's aimed primarily at the education market but it marks the end of the Android tablet era for Google, as it focuses its attention on Chrome OS across both laptops and tablet devices.
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As part of the Game Developers Conference currently being held in California, Google has been pushing the augmented reality (AR) capabilities of Android. New app features from eBay, Ikea, and others have been launched to show exactly why we should start caring about AR on mobile.
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Google Maps is getting better all the time, and today its utility expands even further with a new feature built specifically to help wheelchair users better navigate public transit routes.
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Android Wear is no more, but the software continues under a new name: Wear OS by Google. The tech giant has decided to rebrand its wearable efforts, effective immediately β in part perhaps to try and appeal to more iPhone owners and to reinvigorate a platform that had grown a little stale.
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Google's Magenta project has unveiled a hardware interface for an algorithm-based synthesizer that uses a deep neural network to generate completely new sounds. Musicians drag a finger around the NSynth Super's touchscreen to explore the unique sounds offered up by the machine learning algorithm.β
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