Speech recognition, image search, translation — those are just the beginning for artificial intelligence, if Google is reading its pulse right. While machines are getting better and better at these skills, Google believes it can do more — can, and must, by putting people at the forefront...
Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area that it doesn’t dominate? Karen Webster does, and she says that the European Commission was so focused on the online search for products...
Google rolled out a new virtual reality app, dubbed Google Blocks, on Thursday (July 6) in which users can build 3D models. The free app, which works on the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive, is reportedly intuitive enough that it’s easy for newbies but...
Google’s AI fund has made its first public investment, leading a $10.5 million Series A funding round for Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that enables developers to tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models. According to news from TechCrunch, other participants in the...
Google has reportedly rolled out a new venture capital fund focused on artificial intelligence. According to a report in Axios, citing multiple unnamed sources, this is the first time Google has made an investment effort that is focused on specific technology. What’s more, the fund is being...
Aiming to make subscriptions a more lucrative option for companies and individual app developers, Google rolled out a slew of new tools within the Google Play Console. According to a report, Google launched a new subscription dashboard with the Play Console that lets users see new...
Yesterday marked the second day of the Google I/O developer conference, and the announcements just kept on coming. Wednesday, the company broke the news of a major development for enabling in-app payments — a new Google Payment API that will allow merchants and developers to...
Instead of adding text comments in YouTube VR, Google announced that it will be creating shared rooms where users can voice chat about the videos they’ve watched on the site. According to TechCrunch, the system doesn’t sound much different from Oculus Rooms, which allows you to...
Google just made a major move to expand its revenue beyond the realm of digital advertising. At the keynote address of this year’s I/O developer conference, Google’s CEO announced that the company will be selling AI computer chips, called Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), via...
