Google wants to put the art back in artificial intelligence. During the last session at Moogfest, a four-day music and technology festival, in Durham, North Carolina, Douglas Eck, a researcher on Google Brain, the company’s artificial-intelligence research project, outlined a new group that’s going to focus on figuring out if computers can truly create. The...Read More
On Wednesday Google kicked off its I/O developer conference by unveiling a series of new artificial intelligence-powered products, including a messaging app with a virtual assistant and and a home speaker with a voice interface. Given what we’ve seen in the explosion of AI assistants and software bots from other companies, you’d expect Google to...Read More
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Former employees of Google, Apple, Tesla, Cruise Automation, and others — 40 people in total — have formed a new San Francisco-based company called Otto with the goal of turning commercial trucks into self-driving freight haulers. Prominent staffers include former Google Maps lead Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski of Google’s self-driving car team. Rather than...Read More
The Nexus 6P is wonderful. It’s a superb Android phone from top to bottom — design, build quality, display, battery life, and camera. But when I say “camera,” I mean the image quality that the 6P (and 5X for that matter) can capture. I’m talking about the sensor and image processing. You can take shots...Read More
I downloaded the new Gboard for iOS today, and have been really enjoying it so far. Along with wondering about what Google will tell advertisers now that they can read every single thing I type, I came to the realization that pretty much every major function of my iPhone has now been taken over by...Read More
A team of four Google employees has developed a set of 13 emoji designed to better represent women in the professional world. In a presentation to the Unicode Consortium, the body that approves and standardizes emoji, the team says the new emoji depict “a wide range of professions for women and men, with a goal...Read More
When Kaspar Korjus was born, he was given a number before he was given a name, as are all babies in Estonia. “My name is 38712012796, which I got before my name of Kaspar,†says Mr. Korjus. In Estonia, much of life—voting, digital signatures, prescriptions, taxes, bank transactions—is conducted with this number. The resulting services...Read More
Google today announced that it is bringing some of its Google Cloud Platform and Google Apps tools a little bit closer together. BigQuery, Google’s serverless analytics data warehousing service, will now be able to read files from Google Drive and access spreadsheets from Google Sheets. There has long been something of a firewall between Google’s cloud computing...Read More
Unless you take the bus in Silicon Valley, Google’s self-driving car technology hasn’t had much of an an impact on you. But a partnership with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could help make the promise of cars that do not need drivers, and hopefully do not crash, a reality for everyone. Under a deal announced Tuesday, Google plans to integrate...Read More
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