Apple is hiring Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence; John Giannandrea. The news was first reported by The New York Times, and it comes one day after he announced that he was stepping down from his role at Google. Continue reading “Apple hires Google’s former A.I Chief John Giannandrea, aims to improve Siri”
Google today announced updates to its search results to make it easier to pick a movie. It will now let you can quickly compare movies by factors like ratings, showtimes, theater location and more all from the same view. You can also click showtime to purchase a ticket in advance. Continue reading “Google updates search results to make it easier to filter movies by ratings, showtimes, theater location and more”
Few weeks back Google began blocking Google Play apps and services on uncertified devices which created a lot of confusion among users and what it means. While Google mentioned that it would let custom ROM users be whitelisted, but the page was accepting IMEI values or Play Service Framework Device ID, but the pressing issue here is that it only accepted 100 IDs to be whitelisted. Today, a Google representative has confirmed to XDA that the company is removing this limit. Continue reading “Google removes 100 device registration limit from uncertified device page”
Google today made it clear that it will no longer encourage crypto mining extension as the company will no longer accept extensions that mine cryptocurrency and the existing extensions that mine cryptocurrency will be delisted from the Chrome Web Store in late June. Continue reading “Google bans crypto mining extensions from Chrome store”
Google already announced that it is launching the Google Home in India on April 10th and now the Google Home in India has gained English support and Saavn and Gaana music streaming integration. Users have the ability to them as default music streaming service. Continue reading “Google Home gets Saavn and Gaana music streaming integration ahead of India launch”
We have been seeing the trend of Lite apps for Play Store’s popular apps like Facebook Lite, Messenger Lite, Skype Lite, and Twitter Lite. Along with Lite apps, Google introduced its own set of Go Apps for phones with less than 1GB RAM for Android Go (Oreo Edition) phones. It already released YouTube Go, Maps Go, Gboard Go apps. Continue reading “Google Play Store now recommends Lite and Android Go apps”
With every major Android release, Google revamps its Pixel launcher to accommodate the device and the new design language better. With Android P right around the corner, we now are seeing a slightly revamped Pixel launcher that will ship with the Google Pixel 3. Continue reading “Google said to be testing revamped Pixel launcher search bar for Pixel 3”
Google’s URL shortener; goo.gl was introduced back in 2009 and today the company has announced that it is shutting down the services and is replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). FDLs are smart URLs that can send existing and potential users to any location within an iOS, Android or web app. Continue reading “Google shutting down goo.gl URL shortener in favor of Firebase Dynamic Links”
Gboard beta 7.1 is now rolling to users along that hints at bunch of new features and improvements including Auto-spacing, new emoji, GIF making, 20 new languages and dialects, handwriting settings and more. Continue reading “Gboard 7.1 beta for Android hints at new emoji, GIF making, 20 new languages and dialects”
Google launched Audiobooks back in January, and today it is receiving a major update including smart resume, bookmark favorite moments, speed controls and more, more reading time with routines on the Google Assistant. Continue reading “Google audiobooks gets smart resume, bookmark favorite moments, speed controls and more”
Back in October 2017, DeepMind Artificial Intelligence startup became a part of the Alphabet, and its WaveNet technology which is a deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms is used in producing better and more natural sounding speech for Google Assistant in English and Japanese languages. Continue reading “Google launches Cloud Text-to-Speech service powered by DeepMind’s AI for more natural sounding voices”
Google Home just got better; the company now lets you connect your Home device to your personal Bluetooth speaker so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of your voice. Firstly, you need to pair any compatible Bluetooth speaker with your Google Home. Continue reading “Google Home can now connect and stream music to Bluetooth speakers”
Google just released the Android P developer preview for Wear OS after re-branding the Android Wear earlier this month. The Android P developer preview is now available for Huawei Watch 2 Bluetooth, and it can be installed on either the Sport or Classic versions. Continue reading “Wear OS Android P developer preview with dark theme, battery improvements released”
After adding a bunch of new phones support and V1 release at the MWC 2018 event and announcing a range of ARCore apps last week, Google is rolling the update to ARCore app bringing its version number to V1.1 revealing its support for more devices. Continue reading “ARCore V1.1 update hints at upcoming support for Huawei P20, Nexus 6P, Galaxy S9 and more”
Google Maps is now getting 39 additional languages support spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide. Google Maps currently has more than 1 billion active users and lets you discover new places, find the best driving, biking, and walking routes, and more. Continue reading “Google Maps gets support for 39 additional languages”
