1 month ago | By TechRadar

Google Maps's Immersive Immersive View feature - which lets you virtually tour landmarks - is finally getting a major upgrade in five major cities across the globe, which should make it easier to find your way around. When the feature was announced at Google I/O 2022 , Immersive View allowed people to virtually tour hundreds of landmarks from, Tokyo Tower to the Acropolis of Athens. Using a blend of aerial and street-view images - along with some AI assistance - Immersive View can show you an accurate 3D model of the tourist destination, providing you with a sense of the location's layout...
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Google Lens to gain 'search your screen' AI tool for Android phones

1 month ago | By Android Central

Google announced a slew of improvements coming to Google Lens and its multisearch tool.
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Google's head of VR is leaving to form an AI company with the former co-CEO of Salesforce

1 month ago | By The Verge

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Clay Bavor, Google's vice president of its forward-looking Labs division, is leaving the company to found an AI startup, as announced in a post on Bavor's LinkedIn on Wednesday .
Longtime Verge readers may recognize Bavor as the face of many of Google's virtual reality and augmented reality plans, including Google's ARCore and its early VR hardware efforts. But in 2021, he was appointed to lead Google Labs , meaning his purview increased to also include things like Google's Project Starline video chat booth and its Area 120 incubator, which was...
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How to use Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing search

1 month ago | By AndroidPhoneFans

Just when OpenAI's ChatGPT started to gain immense popularity, we knew the tech giants will not just be the cheerleaders on the sidelines. Google's own take is called Bard and is currently in the internal testing phase. Now, Microsoft has announced a new and revamped Bing search powered by artificial intelligence. It says the goal behind releasing this new Bing version is to “deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience, and the ability to generate content. ” The upgraded Bing search experience is powered by the next-generation GPT model, claimed to be more powerful...
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Google Maps, Search and Translate are About to Get Better

1 month ago | By AndroidPhoneFans

Aside from Android and its Pixel brand, Google has put a lot of effort into improving its software services. Following the reveal of Bard AI , the software giant has announced some big changes to several of its software products, during its “ Live from Paris ” event. More specifically, big changes and new features will be coming to Google Maps, Search, Lens, and Translate - let's take a look! Google Maps First up is “Immersive View,” which starts rolling out to Google Maps. The new feature will primarily be available in five areas including London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and...
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Google unveils its AI chatbot Bard and feature updates at Paris event

1 month ago | By MobileSyrup

Following in Microsoft's footsteps, Mountain View, California-based Google today, at its Live from Paris event, announced AI-focused updates to Search , Maps and Translate, via The Verge.
Just two days ago, on Monday, February 6th, Google announced that its ChatGPT competitor 'Bard' will be available to the public in the "coming weeks," with Google CEO Sundar Pichai describing it as an “experimental conversational AI service” powered by LaMDA. The chatbot made an appearance at the event, where Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president at Google, said that users would be able to interact...
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Former Salesforce exec Bret Taylor is teaming up with Google AR/VR vet Clay Bavor on mystery startup

1 month ago | By TechCrunch

When Bret Taylor announced he was stepping down as co-CEO and co-chair at Salesforce in November, it was easy to be cynical about him saying he wanted to go build again. Well, guess what? He wanted to go build again - and today he and long time Google engineering veteran Clay Bavor announced they were teaming up on a new mystery project.
Bavor, who spent almost seven years as the VP of AR and VR at Google as part of an 18 year career with the company, was coy in a LinkedIn post about what is coming next, but he was clear he's doing it with his pal Taylor.
He wrote that the two have known...
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Google Translate update brings more AI improvements and better accessibility

1 month ago | By Android Central

Google is strengthening its AI software through its Translate app to bring in more of the world around us.
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How to use Google's Jamboard whiteboard app for collaborative brainstorming

1 month ago | By ZDnet

If you need a digital whiteboard for brainstorming sessions with colleagues, Google has you covered with Jamboard.
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AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound

1 month ago | By Phys.org

Nearly a quarter-century after Google's search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence.
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Google Lens resurrects this feature from 2015

1 month ago | By Android Headlines

Google just pulled the wraps off of some new and interesting Search, Lens, and Maps features in Paris. One of the more notable features comes to the company's AI-powered camera app. Google Lens will, eventually, be able to search what's on your screen, according to TechRadar .
So, Google Lens didn't fare too well as a standalone app, but the search giant switched up its strategy. The company implemented Lens into different corners of its ecosystem of services. Now, it's implemented into the Google Search bar and Google Photos, and you can automatically scan screenshots. This powerful AI...
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Google Maps gets more immersive live views, even from above

1 month ago | By Computerworld

Google today announced several upgrades to its search, translate and maps applications that use artificial intelligence and augmented reality to provide expanded answers and live search features that can instantaneously identify objects and locations around a user. In at an event in Paris, the company demonstrated upgrades for its Google Maps Immersive View and Live View technology, along with new features for electric vehicle drivers and people who walk, bike or ride public transit that show 3D routes in real time. Live View, announced in 2020 , allows users to get directions placed in...
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Google Maps Immersive view is now live, bringing new AI and AR features

1 month ago | By Android Central

Immersive View is finally live in Google Maps along with a bevy of new features for EV drivers, people who walk or use public transport, and even in-airport navigation.
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AI is about to make Google Translate a whole lot smarter

1 month ago | By Digital Trends

AI fever is everywhere as Google upgrades its Translate app on the iPhone and Android with new AI-powered tools.
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It costs Google $413 USD to produce a Pixel 7 Pro: report

1 month ago | By MobileSyrup

Counterpoint Research released a new report breaking down the cost of the mmWave variant of the Pixel 7 Pro. It costs around $413 USD to manufacture and uses about 50 percent of Samsung-made components.
Spotted by 9to5Google , the Counterpoint Research report breaks down the bill of materials for the mmWave Pixel 7 Pro to reveal which components came from which manufacturers and how much everything cost. However, it's worth keeping in mind that the $413 figure only covers the production cost, leaving out things like marketing, research and development, and other production-related...
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