![]() There’s a new generation of Google’s custom AI chips Vertex is a new development platform for enterprise AI that puts many of these tools in one place and integrates closely with optional services and standards. But its machine learning development tools have been a bit scattershot - useful but disconnected. Google and its sibling companies are both leaders in AI research and popular platforms for others to do their own AI work. Vertex collects machine learning development tools in one place Why not Bluetooth you ask? Well, Bluetooth is old. Google is working with BMW first, and other automakers soon most likely, to make a new method for unlocking the car when you get near it, or exchanging basic commands without the use of a fob or Bluetooth. Well, assuming you have a really new Android device with a UWB chip in it. Your Android phone is now (also) your car key Developers will be glad to hear there’s a new Google TV emulator and Firebase Test Lab will have Android TV support. The company also showed off a powerful new phone-based remote app that will (among other things) make putting in passwords way better than using the d-pad on the clicker. The smart TV space is a competitive one, and after a few starts Google has really made it happen with Android TV, which the company announced had reached 80 million monthly active devices - putting it, Roku, and Amazon (the latter two with around 50 million monthly active accounts) all in the same league. Android TV hits 80 million devices and adds phone remote So the two companies will also be working together to improve how folding screens interact with Android. And they’re working together on foldables tooĪpparently Google and Samsung realized that no one is going to buy foldable devices unless they do some really cool things, and that collaboration is the best way forward there. In the face of Apple’s utter dominance in the smartwatch space, however, the two have put aside their differences and announced they’ll work on a “unified platform” so developers can make apps that work on both Tizen and Wear OS. ![]() These two mobile giants have been fast friends in the phone world for years, but when it comes to wearables, they’ve remained rivals. Samsung and Google announce a unified smartwatch platform Wear OS is getting a bunch of Fitbit DNA infused, with integrated health tracking stuff and a lot of third party apps like Calm and Flo. Wear OS gets a revamp and lots of health-focused appsįew people want to watch a movie on their smartwatch, but lots of people like to use it to track their steps, meditation, and other health-related practices. It’s still experimental but looks very promising. One of the most surprising things at the keynote had to be Project Starline, a high-tech 3D video call setup that uses Google’s previous research and Lytro DNA to show realistic 3D avatars of people on both sides of the system. Google built a futuristic 3D video calling booth And yes, it was exactly as weird as it sounds. They demonstrated it by showing conversations with anthropomorphized versions of Pluto and a paper airplane. Google’s LaMDA is a new natural language processing technique that makes conversations with AI models more resilient to unusual or unexpected queries, making it more like a real person and less like a voice interface for a search function. It’s a little too easy to stump AIs if you go off script, asking something in a way that to you seems normal but to the language model is totally incomprehensible. ![]() AI conversations get more conversational with LaMDA Looks complicated, but potentially convenient. Now with Smart Canvas you can have a video call as you work on a shared doc together and bring in information and content from your Drive and elsewhere. Millions of people and businesses use Google’s suite of productivity and collaboration tools, but the company felt it would be better if they weren’t so isolated. ![]() Smart Canvas smushes Docs, productivity, and video calls together There’s a beta out today for the adventurous! Wow, Android powers 3 billion devices now Some security features like new camera and microphone use indicators are coming, as well as some “private compute core” features that use AI processes on your phone to customize replies and notifications. A new look, called Material You (yes), focuses on users, apps, and things like time of day or weather to change the UI’s colors and other aspects dynamically. We’ve known Android 12 was on its way for months, but today was our first real look at the next big change for the world’s most popular operating system. Android 12 gets a fresh new look and some quality of life features This year’s I/O event from Google was heavy on the “we’re building something cool” and light on the “here’s something you can use or buy tomorrow.” But there were also some interesting surprises from the semi-live event held in and around the company’s Mountain View campus.
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