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Google TV starts rolling out user profiles next month on Chromecast, televisions from Sony, and TCL

October 11, 2021
Over a year after its debut, Google TV is getting a major and welcome upgrade. Rolling out next month, Google TV is getting user profiles. Google TV is all about personalized recommendations, which made the lack of personal profiles on the platform a pretty huge downside since it meant recommendations might be perfect for one family member, but wrong for another using the same TV. After…
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Google Home app will get an Android TV remote on both Android and iOS ‘soon’

October 11, 2021
A few months after its reveal at Google I/O 2021, Google started rolling out its new Android TV remote in the Google TV app last month. Now, the company is confirming plans to bring the same functionality to the Google Home app on Android and iOS devices. In a community post today, Google confirmed plans to add a remote for Google TV and Android TV devices to the Home app. This would live…
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Google is now focused on making its iPhone and iPad apps feel more native to iOS

October 11, 2021
Google applications on iOS have long been criticized for not feeling native to the platform. Earlier this year, the company’s designers reviewed their approach for developing iOS apps and opted for a change.  Google apps on iOS have long looked and functioned near identically to their Android counterparts. That in itself is fine and the company’s prerogative, but Apple enthusiasts have…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI lab DeepMind becomes profitable and bolsters relationship with Google

October 11, 2021
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! DeepMind, the U.K.-based AI lab that seeks to develop artificial general intelligence, has finally become profitable, according to the company’s latest financial report. Since being acquired by Google (now Alphabet Inc.) in 2014, DeepMind has struggled to break even with its…
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