The Google Home app is set to see a major redesign in the coming months but, ahead of that, Google is opening up a whole new world of automation. This week, some Google Home app users are noticing support for device triggers on Assistant routines.
Google Assistant routines in the Home app have been available for quite some time at this point, but they’ve primarily been focused at using voice…
Android 13 (Go edition) announced with Material You, Google Play System Updates, and more
October 20, 2022
Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience and underlying technical functionality grouped under “reliability, usability and customization” tentpoles.
It starts with Material You and wallpaper-derived…
Microsoft wants to take on the Google Play Store and App Store with its own mobile game store
October 20, 2022
Both Google and Apple have come under regulatory scrutiny over the past few years due to practices with their respective mobile app stores and the lack of competition. As it turns out, Microsoft has been quietly working on its own mobile game store that would take on the…
Amid the work-from-home era, Google’s Area 120 incubator released Threadit to boost team collaboration with video messages that could be replied to at any time. This project is shutting down soon, but the Threadit team is joining Google Workspace.
Threadit wanted to do video without the “live” nature given that some teams do work in different time zones. It starts by recording your…
Meta AI announces first AI-powered speech translation system for an unwritten language
October 20, 2022
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Artificial speech translation is a rapidly emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Initially created to aid communication among people who speak…
Microsoft wants to build an Xbox-branded mobile game store
October 20, 2022
Microsoft wants to bring a taste of Xbox game shopping to your phone. As The Verge explains, a company filing with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has revealed plans to build a “next generation” Xbox store that’s available on mobile…
Meta's AI translator can interpret unwritten languages
October 20, 2022
Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine learning translation systems, as they typically need to convert verbal speech to written words before translating to the new language and reverting the text back to speech, but one that Meta has reportedly…
Google’s Material You design language has been available since Android 12, but you wouldn’t know it if you bought an entry Go Edition phone stuck with the old look. Thankfully, Google is finally bringing that aesthetic to lower-cost handset. The newly announced…
Google's iOS 16 lock screen widgets are now available
October 20, 2022
Google’s iOS 16 lock screen widgets are officially available. As outlined in September, the widgets give you at-a-glance info and shortcuts for some of the company’s core apps. Gmail can show your new message counts, while Maps can either provide a link to…
Honda’s first electric moped design revealed in patent filings, giving us an early look
October 19, 2022
Like most Japanese motorcycle manufacturers, Honda has been late to the electrification game. But don’t count the storied motorbike brand out just yet, as the company’s upcoming electric moped looks to be shaping up nicely based on recent IP filings.
Honda recently announced that it planned to rollout 10 different electric motorcycle models by 2025, though most of those are expected to be…
