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Google Assistant's new visual overlay answers questions before you ask
Google is rolling out an update to Assistant that gives it a proactive visual overlay which displays pertinent information ...
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How to check the security of your Google Chrome extensions
The other day, a friend called me and said that his Google Chrome browser is acting weirdly and may need reinstalling. According to him, every time he searched for something on Google some unknown website appeared with suspicious results. I asked him to remove every Chrome extension ...
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Academic expert says Google and Facebook's AI researchers aren't doing science
In the blue corner: Big tech and its billion dollar coffers. In the red corner: Academia and science. Place your bets! Winner ...
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Techies leave the likes of Apple and Amazon for greener pastures in the cannabis industry
The cannabis industry is tapping Silicon Valley's elite for top-tier talent as the sector continues to grow explosively.
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Google X's ambitious Loon and Wing projects graduate into independent companies
Loon and Wing, two of Google X’s moonshot projects, “graduated” yesterday to become full companies under the Alphabet ...
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YouTube will fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles
While blame for the spreading fake news has often fallen on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, they're hardly alone. YouTube in particular is hugely influential, with five billion videos watched every day. Earlier this year, Chief Product Office Neal Mohan said the ...
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Android P Beta 3 is rolling out now
Android P beta 3 is rolling out today. Don't expect much in the way on consumer-facing features, as Google finalized all the APIs with Beta 2. Instead, Google says Beta 3 focuses on "the latest bug fixes and optimizations for stability and polish," which suggests this should be ...
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DeepMind's AI learned to turn flat images into 3D scenes
Google sister company DeepMind continues to make landmark advances in the field of AI. With the London-based company's latest ...
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Google is reportedly building hardware for its game streaming service
We heard back in February about Google's plans to build a game streaming platform, codenamed Yeti. Now, Kotaku has a scoop ...
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YouTube makes picture-in-picture video (mostly) free for Android users in the US
Quite possibly the best thing about being a YouTube Red/Premium/Google Play Music subscriber is the ability to watch videos ...
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Here's how Google will help you avoid Independence Day traffic
Google is helping American holiday-goers in major cities avoid the heavy traffic jams by predicting the times when most cars ...
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Pixel 3 renders give us our best look at the devices yet
It was just a few weeks ago we got a look at a supposed Pixel 3 prototype, but new CAD renders courtesy of @OnLeaks and MySmartPrice provide ...
