Google is announcing a new messaging app today. It's called Allo and its main feature is a Google assistant that's built right in. Google says it'll be available later this summer — for free — on both iOS and Android.Allo (pronounced like "Aloe" and not like "'allo, guv'nor!") is a mobile-only app that you might think is meant to replace Google's other messaging app, Hangouts. But you'd be wrong. Allo is explicitly meant to be a fresh start for Google's new communication's division (which also runs Hangouts and Project Fi).
Google is releasing a new video calling app later this summer. It's called Duo, and it's probably the fastest and simplest video calling app I've ever seen. Like its companion chat app, Allo, Duo is mobile-only. It uses your phone number as an identifier, and it will work on both iOS and Android.
Today's announcement of Google Home is likely to be the most exciting "living room" news that comes out of the company's annual developers conference, but that doesn't mean TV has been completely forgotten. Google today announced a bunch of new hardware partners for Android TV and Google Cast, its two solutions (just two!) for watching web content on TV screens.
A pair of Google veterans have assembled a team of experts who have worked for a number of other notable Silicon Valley companies and startups to form a company called Otto with the aim of making truck driving on highways safer through automation. Unlike driverless car projects elsewhere, the company is more concerned with developing the technology that can be easily fitted into trucks to help drivers on the road.
Remember BoatyMcBoat face? Ohh no its now called David Attenborough to the disbelief of so many who had voted. A similar name is with Google? Seriously? Have a look yourself!
A standalone headset could arrive at the I/O conference. It looks nearly certain that Google will launch an Android-powered VR headset that works without a phone or PC.
Google is switching to HTML5 wherever possible following its decision to end support for Adobe’s Flash software. The software makes multimedia rich content run on a particular web page but a number of security holes make Flash vulnerable to exploitation by hackers.
The company behind two of the most highly rated smartphones the leading smart thermostat, a super high-end laptop, a 2-in-1 tablet, a Wi-Fi camera, streaming audio and video players, a sexy router and a smart smoke detector ... is Google? It's strange but true.
Google working out on an iOs thing? Take a look! Google this morning havelaunched a new application for iOS devices called Gboard that puts the power of Google’s search index directly into your mobile device’s keyboard.
Cybersecurity and anti-virus pioneer John McAfee has reportedly tried to mislead reporters into believing that he had sabotaged Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption. Apparently, this isn’t the first time that the self-styled libertarian gained media attention for such outlandish claims like when he told the FBI that he’ll help them hack into the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone.
In its effort to improve AI’s ability to learn and understand the ambiguity and complexities of human language, Google has open-sourced Parsey McParseface powered by SyntaxNet. These two pieces of NLU programming is free for use, distribution, and modification by other developers to hasten the development of human-like computers.
In an effort to keep a hold on its massive audience, YouTube is experimenting a new messaging add-on that allows people to share and talk about video content without switching to other apps for other social networking purposes. The move comes at a time when many social media platforms are increasingly incorporating YouTube-like features to keep their user base from switching to rival apps.
Google introduces ‘Gboard’ which integrates the tech giant’s search engine features and other media contention into people’s conversation. Meanwhile, Gboard chief developer Rajan Patel hinted on the possibility of adding text-to-speech into the their speeches
Google have now brought out some new designs for their emojis honoring women in the world of work. The designs have been presented to the Unicode consortium, the body that approves and standardizes emojis. The move was brought into place after the team stated that it hoped that would “empower young women and better reflect the pivotal roles women play in the world".It includes healthcare workers, scientists and businesswomen.” Emojis are increasing in terms of usage in mobile and wed messaging applications to actually personify their emotions or stories. It was so popular that even the word was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2013.
As a response to the growing demand for restrictions against payday loans, Google has announced its ban on ads related to predatory lending practices. Other Silicon Valley titans like Facebook has already made a similar restriction on loans designed to push people deeper into the debt trap.
