Android 10 (formerly named Q) begins rolling out now to Google’s Pixel phones. Non-Pixel Android devices will apparently get the update later this year. Announced at Google I/O, the update boasts a range of new features, such as: New privacy and security features (including around location). A number of “digital well-being” controls to limit screen time and …

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During Google’s Marketing Live event on May 14, VP of engineering, shopping and travel at Google, Oliver Heckmann, announced the latest efforts to consolidate and simplify travel planning. This effort is known as Trips and is available on mobile and desktop platforms. Trips lets users explore sights and attractions as well as shop for flights, …

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During the State of the Search session at Google I/O on Thursday, Google announced that it will launch higher quality image support, 3D images, as well as the ability to swipe up images from AMP pages. Here’s some info regarding the 3D images from Google’s keynote Wednesday, and swipe navigation with AMP articles. According to Google, …

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First showed off at Google I/O last year, App Actions is expanding with built-in intents for four new App Action categories: Health and fitness Finance and banking Food ordering Ridesharing These new intents are aimed at enabling developers to integrate their apps with Google Assistant. Developers can start integrating the new actions immediately. Google says …

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Several updates were announced by Google on May 7, which was the first day of its annual Google I/O developer conference. The updates cover news, top stories, images, Google Lens and others as well. Google will roll out improvements within Google search in the Top Stories section.The top stories section will cover not only the …

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Last year, Google Lens was announced at I/O for Google’s Pixel devices, and was later rolled out for both iOS other Android devices, even if it was a bit awkward to use for Android (It was used through the photo app).  By taking a photo, you could run Lens against the photo rather than through the camera …

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At the beginning of this year, Google announced a solution for the AMP cache URL problem where Google would show and let you share the Google AMP URL instead of the publisher URL.  The solution was demonstrated at I/O as an early beta of how this would look like for a publisher. So, as an example, rather than showing …

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Google has decided to bring the Chrome browser to virtual Reality (VR), as well as augmented reality (AR).  On the second day of I/O, at the end of their morning keynote, Google made some announcements that were tied to Chrome that were interesting for the future of the mobile web. Previously, Google had authored a web …

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During Google’s keynote at I/O 2017, Google Assistant made quite the impression.  The Assistant gained a number of new features and expanded beyond its Android-based roots. Not surprising at all, Google chose to make Assistant available on the iPhone.  This will make it an even bigger competitor to Siri, the iPhone’s built in assistant as well …

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During Google I/O yesterday (May 18), the company introduced something new called Google Instant Apps for Android.  Basically, you can have the app experience in the mobile web without a download. It seems that Instant Apps is a manifestation or evolution of App Streaming, which of course many people haven’t been able to experience yet.  Users are taken to …

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