Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future. The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the...Read More
Google One looks promising Google is restructuring and rebranding its paid cloud storage service. The new system includes a revamped price structure, some promised “extras”, a family plan, and perhaps most useful of all, unlimited free access to live help for all of Google’s consumer products and services. It’s called Google One. The new price...Read More
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Imagine having an intelligent conversation with a computer. Imagine that the computer doesn’t need to repeat things back to you or ask you to confirm what...Read More
Earlier this week Google unveiled a brand-new Google News app during the opening keynote of Google I/O. The new app uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to tailor each user’s news app to fit his or her personal interests. The app replaces the Google Play Newsstand app on iOS and Android. It’s slowly rolling out...Read More
It came as a total surprise: the most impressive demonstration at Google’s I/O conference yesterday was a phone call to book a haircut. Of course, this was a phone call with a difference. It wasn’t made by a human, but by the Google Assistant, which did an uncannily good job of asking the right questions,...Read More
If you’re the type of person who absolutely must use Google Maps, even if you have a fully functional navigation system in your car, then Volvo’s latest news will be right up your alley. Volvo announced Monday that its next-gen infotainment system will carry several Google services, including Maps, Assistant and Play Store. That puts...Read More
Google Assistant has had a good few months: Google’s smart assistant is now compatible with more than 5,000 devices, up from the 1,500 it worked with back in January. According to Google, it’s a list made up of a huge variety of products, including “cameras, dishwashers, doorbells, dryers, lights, plugs, thermostats, security systems, switches, vacuums,...Read More
Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, flew to Silicon Valley earlier this year for a long-planned speech to Google employees. It wasn’t until she sat waiting in a parking lot that a call came through notifying her the event was canceled. Ms. Newkirk had been invited by some...Read More
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 — Google’s stock clobbering shows just how freaked out Wall Street is about the online ad business right now The share price of Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. fell this week amid a...Read More
Google is taking another stab at putting together a coherent to-do list app by breaking off Tasks into a full, standalone service, complete with its own mobile apps and deep integration into the new Gmail redesign. The new app is like a fresh coat of paint for the long-neglected Tasks built-in to Gmail, with a...Read More
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