Conferencing solution company Zoom announced a slew of new features this week at its Zoomtopia 2019 conference in San Jose, California — 300 in total, to be exact. Among the highlights are AI-powered transcripts and meeting notes in Zoom Meetings, in addition to a Zoom Rooms people counter informed by facial recognition.
On the Zoom Meetings side, live transcripts tap startup Otter.ai’s speech…
OpenAI teaches a robotic hand to solve a Rubik’s cube
October 15, 2019
Robots with truly humanlike dexterity are far from becoming reality, but progress accelerated by AI has brought us closer to achieving this vision than ever before. In a research paper published in September, a team of scientists at Google detailed their tests with a robotic…
Apple plans to manufacture the iPhone 11 in India as iPhone XR is now produced there
October 15, 2019
We first heard about Apple making its high-end iPhone models in India earlier this year. Today a new report from claims the company has just started the production of the iPhone XR in the country, with plans to also manufacture the iPhone 11 there in the following months.
Google Assistant has a new look on the Pixel 4
October 15, 2019
Google has given Assistant an overhaul, updating the UI and making the voice assistant more useful, with a better understanding of context for the information or actions you ask it about. At the Made by Google event, the company showcased some of what the new Assistant has in store, including a zippy flow from Maggie Rogers’ Twitter account to her upcoming shows, sharing that info with a…
If you’re in the market for a new router, good news: Google just announced a replacement for its long-in-the-tooth Google Wifi. The new Nest Wifi Router and Nest Wifi Point, which debuted at an event in New York City this morning, are a mesh-capable wireless router and…
Google Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go, and Pixel Buds 2 are the latest iPhone, MacBook, and AirPods competitors
October 15, 2019
During its Made by Google event today in NYC, Google announced its latest hardware products. The new lineup includes a new iPhone competitor, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones, AirPods competitor, the Pixel Buds 2, a brand new MacBook challenger, the Pixelbook Go, and…
A faster, near real-time Google Assistant made its debut at a hardware event held today in New York, where the flagship Pixel 4 smartphone was also debuted. The next-generation Google Assistant can be used to open apps and deliver automated speech transcription from voice recordings, as well as using multi-turn dialogue to respond to multiple commands or queries.
Google Assistant is also getting…
Google Stadia launches on November 19, pre-orders shipping soon
October 15, 2019
Stadia, Googles new streaming platform, goes live in just over a month – you’ll be able to sign in starting November 19 at 16:00 UTC and start buying games. And seconds later youll be playing those games because of the way Stadia works, theres no…
Pixel Buds with hands-free Google Assistant will arrive in 2020
October 15, 2019
Google today released the second-generation version of Pixel Buds, earbuds with a dedicated chip for on-device machine learning that gets rid of the string that held the first generation earbuds together. The device is made to allow environmental ambient sound and uses…
Mumbai- and Mountain View, California-based CleverTap, which develops cloud-based customer management and engagement tracking tools, today revealed that it recently closed a $35 million series C funding round at a valuation of $385 million — over double its previous valuation of $150 million. Tiger Global Management and Sequoia India co-led the raise, which brings the startup’s total raised to…
