Intel will open a trio of labs which inside it will test next-generation laptops under the codename Project Athena. The labs will be located in China’s Shanghai, Taiwan’s Taipei, and California’s Folsom, and will all be used to test hardware makers components to ensure they meet the standards of Project Athena. Those standards involve performance and power optimisation […]
It might not have the same kind of horsepower as the original Pixel 3, but the 3a XL offers just about everything else that made last year’s models compelling at a steep discount. Even beyond the basics, the 3a XL features a few touches that fans have been clamoring for, like a headphone jack and […]
People aren’t buying smartphones like they used to, primarily because they’ve gotten so expensive that consumers are hanging on to them for three or four years. So, instead of building a phone with more bells and whistles, Google is stripping out a lot of the expensive stuff and building a phone called the Pixel 3a […]
The annual Google I/O Conference this afternoon, the company announced alot of what it’s been working on over the last year, from new phones to a next-gen version of its voice-powered Assistant. Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max Google Lens upgrades Google’s “next-gen” Assistant Android Q beta 3 has: […]
Last year’s biggest news out of I/O, Google Duplex, came across as a bit of an afterthought this year, dodging concerns about the AI that can make human-like calls in your behalf by making it unable to speak at all on an upcoming version for the web. In an early demonstration, Google says Duplex can […]
Google has managed to shrink its voice recognition models down from hundreds of gigabytes to half a gigabyte, making them small enough to fit right on a phone. By storing it locally, they’re able to eliminate the latency involved with the back-and-forth pings to the cloud, making conversations with Assistant almost instantaneous. As it’s running […]
Google Lens has been one of the few compelling reasons to use AR on your phone and now it’s about to get supercharged with three cool new features, which have just been announced at Google I/O 2019 conference. Google announced the three upgrades that are coming to the camera tech from “later this month”. One […]
Android 10 Q beta 3 is available today on more devices than any previous Android beta has been available on before. Google is announced new major features for the tenth version of Android yesterday at Google I/O. Beta 3 features Android Q betas have already brought over 50 features and improvements around user privacy and […]
Project Euphonia is to help people with speech impairments, Live Relay to help people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and Project Diva to give people some independence and autonomy via Google Assistant. Google cited a few numbers from the World Health Organization to back its efforts. Over 1 billion people, or 15% of […]
Google used to give us monthly updates on the distribution of the different versions of Android, but after its October 2018 update, the news stopped. According to Google (via Android Police), Android 9 Pie was on 10.4 percent of devices that accessed the Play Store during the 7-day period ending on May 7, 2019. Google […]
Google wants to change the way you use Google Maps on a Pixel, by using the phone’s camera and augmented reality to overlay directions and other relevant travel information when you use walking directions. It was something they announced at last year’s Google I/O. Google followed up with the feature at this year’s I/O keynote […]
Google Assistant is about to become a much more helpful passenger while you’re on the road. The assistant is getting a new “driving mode” with voice commands that should make it easier to interact with your device and access the information you need without ever taking your hands off the wheel. The new feature, announced […]
Google has officially unveiled the previously leaked Nest Hub Max, a 10-inch smart display that’s essentially the Google Home Max, Nest Camera, and the Google Home Hub combined into a singular device. Unveiled at the company’s I/O developer conference today, the Hub Max is a 10-inch display that looks like a stretched-out Home Hub. But […]
Google’s Pixel phones may have the best cameras on a smartphone, but they’re also expensive. The most recent Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL started at $800 and $900, respectively. It’s a big jump from the days of Google’s Nexus phones, which typically cost under $500. Well, the Pixel flagships are now getting a midrange companion. Google took […]
Google today announced a major new initiative around its Chrome browser that will, in the long run, introduce significant changes to how Chrome handles cookies and enhance its users’ privacy across the web. Google is also pushing back against non-cookie tracking techniques like browser fingerprinting, reducing the amount of passive information Chrome provides to sites […]