#Google, in the hot area of Artificial Intelligence, will begin letting customers directly use its custom intelligence processors in their infrastructure. #AI #Security #EdgeComputing #Trend Machine learning is coming closer to home. [read more] Source: CNET
#Google announced its new #Titan security key; a device that protects your accounts by restricting two-factor authentication to the physical world. #Security #Trend Google really, really wants you to use physical security keys to protect yourself from hackers. After announcing… Read More ›
#Google announced it will soon be enhancing its’ meeting hardware to support voice commands. The buttons as we know them, will start disappearing. #AI #VoiceFirst #Trend Today at the Google Next conference in San Francisco, the company announced it would… Read More ›
#Google is officially building AI technology to replace some of the work in call centers: Contact Center #AI. #Technology #Trend Google is officially building AI technology to replace some of the work in call centers, the company announced at its… Read More ›
#Google’s #Nest is reportedly looking to integrate smart home devices into senior living facilities to help people live independently longer. #Mankind #Trend The devices could help people live independently longer, CNBC reports. [read more] Source: CNET
Monzo is the first bank to partner with the #IFTTT automation platform. You can now connect your #Monzo account to over 500 different services including #Twitter, #Dropbox, #Google Drive, and even #Philips #Hue! #Trend https://t.co/y1WW5DWqvL We’ve connected Monzo with the… Read More ›
#Google Pay expands its footprint in the core financial customer journeys. #GooglePay #Trend Google Pay is getting an update: Users can finally pay friends with the app, save concert tickets and boarding passes, and manage payment information. [read more] Source:… Read More ›
#Google may be making a play to find other applications for its human-sounding assistant and has already started experimenting with ways to use #Duplex to do away with roles currently filled by humans. #AI #Voice #Trend When Google introduced Google… Read More ›
#Google knocked #Amazon out of the top spot for the first time by increasing sales of their Google Home #SmartSpeaker by a staggering 483 percent year-over-year to 3.2 million units versus 2.5 million Echo devices for Amazon. #AI #Trend When… Read More ›
The #SmartSpeaker sales in the first quarter: #Amazon shipped 4 million Echo devices, #Google sold 2.4 million Home devices, #Alibaba managed to ship 0,7 million units and #Apple only sold 0,6 million #HomePod devices. #Trend Apple may have shipped just… Read More ›
“Hello, I am robot”. #Google #Duplex will make itself “appropriately identified”, for the benefit of all parties involved. #AI #Voice #Trend Following widespread outcry over the ethical questions raised by Google’s new Duplex system, which lets AI mimic a human… Read More ›
At #Google I/O, the move from Mobil-First to AI-First can be summarised with a single quote: “use Mobile less, but AI more”. #Trend Google is trying to combat screen addiction, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get addicted to its… Read More ›
The Augmented Hearing features of the #Google #Pixel #Buds now allow you to switch spoken notifications on or off for each app. #AugmentedHearing #Trend A beta preview back in March hinted at a few features coming to Google’s Pixel Buds,… Read More ›
All the new Google Assistant, Duplex, Android and the Google Apps features… announced at #Google I/O. #Trend From Gmail that writes itself to an Assistant that may pass the Turing test, Google I/O brought us a ton of enhancements to… Read More ›
#Google is developing an impressive feature that lets your phone impersonate people; intended to make people’s lives easier by handling standard phone calls that are necessary, but not especially personal. #AI #VPA #Trend Google could soon have a feature that… Read More ›
#Android Things is… an #IoT optimised OS tuned to run well on low-powered devices, a selection of #Google-approved hardware kits, and a streamlined system for pushing new software and security updates to IoT devices. #Trend Android Things was first shown… Read More ›
#Google is playing catch-up to #Apple’s #iMessages, with #Android Chat. #Mobile #Trend Google is spearheading an initiative to replace traditional SMS texting with a new standard called RCS. It will bring iMessage-like features to Android. [read more] Source: Business Insider
The new “custom device actions” enable developers to build #Google #Assistant into devices, and create custom commands. The race to catch-up on #Amazon #Alexa has begun. #SmartSpeaker #Trend A washing machine with Assistant built in could recognize commands for its… Read More ›
After playing around in the experimental phase, #Google is bringing its #ARCore Augmented Reality platform to its 1.0 release with availability on over 100 million #Android devices. #AR #ARKit #Trend After playing around in the experimental phase, Google is bringing… Read More ›
Is #Spotify building its own #SmartSpeaker; and will the voice interface of the new device use #Amazon #Alexa, #Google #Assistant, something proprietary, or something else? #AI #Trend Multiple job listings confirm Spotify’s hardware ambitions. [read more] Source: Ars Technica
#Google launched a new service, called Cloud #AutoML, that uses several machine-learning tricks to automatically build and train a deep-learning algorithm that can recognize things in images. #AI #Trend Automating the training of machine-learning systems could make AI much more… Read More ›
Although #Amazon and #Google already have a huge advantage, #Apple joins the race for the Smart Speaker today. The first of 10 to 12 million #HomePod devices will leave the factory today. #AI #SmartSpeaker #Trend After facing a delay late… Read More ›
By day four of #CES2018, journalists start reporting when a gadget doesn’t have Alexa or Google Assistant. #AI #SmartSpeaker #Google #GoogleHome #Amazon #AmazonEcho #Alexa #Trend The rivalry between Amazon and Google’s virtual assistants is fiercer than ever at the tech… Read More ›
#Facebook is shutting down its M bot just as its competitors are ramping up their own digital helpers. Both #Amazon and #Google are trying to get their Virtual Assistants, into the hands and homes of more users. #AI #VPA #Chatbot… Read More ›
There is a war going on at #CES2018 between #Amazon and #Google. The battleground, this time, is the market for Smart Speakers. But what’s really at stake is the relative positions as we enter a new wave of computing. #AI… Read More ›
#Google introduces competition for the #Amazon Echo Show; Smart Assistant devices with a touchscreens for your kitchen countertop. #CES2018 #SmartSpeaker #Trend Google Assistant-enabled touchscreens unveiled Monday at CES are made for your kitchen countertop and will compete against Amazon’s Echo… Read More ›
Smart Speakers are now the fastest-growing consumer technology; faster than any other recent consumer technology, including AR, VR or wearables. #AI #Google #GoogleHome #Amazon #AmazonEcho #Alexa #SmartSpeaker #Trend Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over… Read More ›
This infographic sheds light on the fight for Smart Speaker market share, how early adopters are using the devices, and the growing array of voice-enabled devices currently on the market. #SmartSpeaker #Amazon #AmazonEcho #Alexa #Google #GoogleHome #Trend The growing array… Read More ›
Google’s effort to catch up to #Amazon in the nascent Smart Speaker market is gaining traction. #Google has sold more than one Home device every second since October. #SmartSpeaker #Trend Google says more than one Home device is sold every… Read More ›
#Google announced a cheap and simple computer vision kit for #Raspberry #Pi that doesn’t require access to cloud processing, because of the extra processing unit (integrated neural networkin). #EdgeComputing #Trend Google is offering a new way for Raspberry Pi tinkerers… Read More ›
#Google is reportedly thinking about bringing #Nest, and its portfolio of smart home devices, back into Google, in an effort to beat out #Amazon’s increasing dominance in the space. #SmartSpeaker #Trend Google is reportedly thinking about bringing Nest, and its… Read More ›
#Fin, an intelligent voice assistant startup that – unlike #Amazon #Alexa, #Apple #Siri, #Google #Assistant, or #Microsoft #Cortana – has the true ability to learn your habits. In their credo, “AI” means “Always Improving”! #AI #SmartAssistant #VPA #Trend The company,… Read More ›
#Google’s #Pixel Buds might not be the greatest pair of earbuds on the market, but they sure are a useful tool for traveling abroad… and translating foreign languages. #SmartEarBuds #Trend Google’s Pixel Buds are the company’s first attempt to make… Read More ›
Instant Apps are now an integral part of the #Google Play Store. #Trend Google today is announcing a number of changes to its Google Play app store, the most notable being a new way to try apps immediately without having… Read More ›
The augmented reality battle between #Apple and #Google is on! #AR #ARKit #ARCore #Trend Clearly, the next big battlefield for tech gamesmanship between Apple and Google will be augmented reality. While the announcement of the new iPhones by Apple may… Read More ›
The #Google Cardboard for #AR is here (without cardboard): #Mira’s #Prism. #AugmentedReality #ARKit #ARCore #Trend Mira’s Prism headset is a lot like Google Cardboard but for augmented reality, and investors at Greylock Partners think that’s a cool enough idea they led a… Read More ›
#Google introduced “Audio QR” (#AQR) in it’s new #Tez payment app. #Trend Tez works on any phone with a mic and speaker [read more] Source: The Verge
#Apple, #Amazon, #Microsoft, and #Google expand their efforts to capture the voice assistant landscape. #AI #Trend This story was delivered to BI Intelligence… [read more] Source: Business Insider
#Google didn’t copy the #ARKit of #Apple; in reality #ARCore packs 2 extra years of maturity. #Tango #Trend A couple of days ago, Google announced ARCore, its competitor to Apple’s ARKit. Obviously this is great news for the AR industry,… Read More ›
#Google is getting serious about designing for #VR, #AR and #MR. #Trend With its new app Blocks, Google is getting serious about designing for VR, AR, and everything in between. [read more] Source: fastcodesign
What a surprise! #Apple releases its #SmartSpeaker (and at a much steeper price the #Amazon or #Google). #Trend Although we were rebuffed at Apple’s main demo area at WWDC today, we did get a chance to go listen to the… Read More ›
#Google’s AI systems are creating better AI systems: designing better #AI models then humans. #AutoML #Trend Google’s AutoML makes it easier to design better AI. [read more] Source: Futurism
#Google is releasing analytics and suggestions to make bot experiences better for users. #Chatbase #Chatbot #Trend Just ahead of Google’s I/O event kicking off later today, some details have leaked out about a new service that Google is launching for… Read More ›
Is #Google’s mysterious #Fuchsia OS the successor of #Android? #Mobile #Trend When we last looked at Google’s Fuchsia operating system, it was very modest. While it was designed for everything from Internet of Things devices to PCs, there… [read more]… Read More ›
#AI is not flawless. Last year, the face recognition algorithm of #Google made some offending picture labels. #Trend Google has removed the ‘gorilla’ tag from its new Photos app, after it was found to be misidentifying images of black people… Read More ›
By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence! #AI #Google #Trend 12 years. That’s how long Google’s Director of Engineering Ray Kurzweil thinks it will take for computers to reach human levels of intelligence. [read more] Source: Fox News
#Google says its #AI has gotten so good it doesn’t even need the CAPTCHA checkbox anymore. #Security #Trend Google’s security AI has become so smart, it can now tell whether you’re a human or a robot without asking you to check a… Read More ›
Russian, Hindi and Vietnamese are now supported by the newly #AI powered #Google Translate service. #Trend Last fall, Google introduced a new system for machine-assisted language translations, Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which takes advantage of deep neural networks… Read More ›
The next features of #Google Home: multi-user support and voice recognition. #SmartSpeaker #Trend Google may be on its way to solving one of the biggest problems with smart speakers: they only work with a single account. Android Police spotted signs… Read More ›
10 million… that’s how many #Google cardboard virtual reality viewers have already shipped! #VR #Trend If the numbers are any indication, people like Google’s Cardboard viewer in a very big way. [read more] Source: CNET