Google might be feeling pretty smart today about its high-tech Home and Home Mini speakers. That’s because a new research report puts Google ahead of Amazon in first-quarter shipments of smart speakers, the first time that has happened. Google in Q1 shipped 3.2 million of...
Yelp announced that it has renewed a European antitrust complaint against Google. The online reviews company filed a similar complaint in 2014, stating that Google’s local search tools, such as business listings and reviews from Google Maps, receive top billing in results over links to Yelp...
The Justice Department is facing calls by Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin to look over the clout and power technology firms including Google have over the economy in the U.S. Bloomberg, according to comments Mnuchin made on a “60 Minutes” segment focused on claims that Alphabet’s Google has a monopoly when...
One year after it went on sale, Google is adding more functions to its connected jean jacket with Levi’s, including support for ridesharing alerts, Bose’s “Aware Mode,” and location saving. Last year Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group introduced Jacquard, a connected apparel platform that lets...
The latest iteration of Google Maps is slated to launch this summer, TechCrunch reported, with a slew of new features that tie into exploring surroundings, rather than just focusing on getting from here to there. The tech trade publication wrote on Friday (May 11) that the...
Google’s most futuristic product, Duplex, is drawing heavy criticism from those who question the ethics of placing robots in conversations with humans, without the other parties realizing it. Google previewed Duplex at its I/O Developer conference on Tuesday (May 8), showing off the experimental service...
Aiming to make Google Assistant smarter, Google announced Tuesday (May 8) Google Duplex, a new technology for carrying out tasks over the phone using natural conversations. In a blog post, Yaniv Leviathan, principal engineer and Yossi Matias, vice president of engineering at Google, said the...
So, what did we learn this week at Google I/O? As Alphabet kicked off its annual developer conference in Mountain View, California, this week, the name of the game was artificial intelligence (AI). Google announced that its research division will heretofore be known as Google...
Google unveiled several new features on the first day of its I/O Developer Conference on Tuesday (May 8). The additions range from visual assistants on Android phones to a new calling feature that connects consumers with local businesses. Through a feature dubbed “Duplex,” for example, Google Assistant...
