Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

На конференции I/O 2016 компания Google представила голосового помощника нового поколения Google Assistant. По сути, Assistant является более «умной» и продвинутой версией Google Now, при этом в компании попытались максимально её «очеловечить». С новым помощником можно будет общаться в режиме диалога. В отличие от Google Now, Assistant сможет не только отвечать на простые запросы, но и распознавать вопросы на обычном языке, а также отвечать на вопросы, возникающие в контексте уже предоставленных ответов. Т... →

Posted by Laura.Lippay[Estimated read time: 9 minutes] (header image photo by H.L.W. from the Blind Photographers Flickr Group.) Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! 39 million people are blind. 285 million are visually impaired. 15% of the world’s population — over a billion people — have some form of disability. Disabilities can come in many shapes and forms: physical, cognitive, visual, hearing. How does someone who is blind check their email? How does someone who can’t hear decipher any of the tens... →

Another year, another Google I/O Keynote slammed with back-to-back announcements. Miss our liveblog earlier? Don’t have time to catch up on every last bit of news? Don’t sweat it: we’ve compressed the most important bits into bite-sized morsels for lightning fast perusal. Ready? Read More... →

Google announced its new messaging app Allo at its I/O developers conference today, and it looks pretty cool. It’s a feature-rich interface with graphics and doodles, and it works with Google Assistant to make suggestions and schedule plans. Allo even has an option for users to send their messages using end-to-end encryption, a security feature that has become increasingly popular and is… Read More... →

As Google announced at its I/O developer conference today, the company recently started building its own specialized chips to expedite the machine learning algorithms. These so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are custom-built chips that Google has now been using in its own data centers for almost a year, as Google’s senior VP for its technical infrastructure Urs Holzle noted in a… Read More... →

Like a number of other bits and bobs announced at Google I/O thus far, there are still some important questions left unanswered about the Mi Box, but here’s what we do know about Xiaomi’s forthcoming set top box. It’s sleek, it’s small, and it’s apparently won the Chinese phone maker a couple of design awards already. The Mi Box is powered by Android TV 6.0,… Read More... →

18 мая 2016 года состоялось открытие ежегодной конференции для разработчиков Google I/O. На мероприятии руководители корпорации представили несколько новых продуктов и технологий, полезных и для пользователей, и для специалистов из ИТ-индустрии.Редакция vc.ru собрала мнения российских разработчиков о нововведениях от Google.... →

What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naivete here. Read More... →

After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today. Pali Bhat, Google’s senior director of product management for Android Pay, told me that one and a half million users in the U.S. now set up Android Pay on their phones every month. Read More... →

На ежегодной конференции разработчиков Google I/O компания Google анонсировала запуск платформы Daydream для создания VR-приложений для мобильных устройств.... →

Google is launching a major update to its Play developer services today that should make life a little bit easier for Android developers. With 65 billion app installs in 2015, Google obviously knows a little bit about what its developers want; with this update, the company is focusing on giving developers more tools to test their apps before a new (or first) release. While Google Play… Read More... →

The amount of Google Cardboard app downloads has doubled in just the past four months. Today, onstage at I/O, Google’s head of VR, Clay Bavor, announced that the company had seen downloads on the Google Cardboard platform from the Google Play store grow to 50 million from just 25 million downloads in January. “We think that’s pretty good for what is, after all, just a piece… Read More... →

Google на конференции Google I/O представила операционную систему для «умных» часов Android Wear. В ней появятся новые возможности для ответа на сообщения, а также нативные приложения.... →

Google is updating its Android Studio developer environment with a whole slew of upgrades under the hood that’ll make it faster. The company unveiled the new tool at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View. Making the developer experience easier is critical to companies like Google to encourage developers to build apps Android-first, which is important to capture moments… Read More... →

Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget you installed them. Now, Google wants us to rethink what mobile apps are and how we interact with them. Instant Apps, a new Android feature Google announced at its I/O developer conference today but plans to roll out very slowly, wants… Read More... →

Google offers a plethora of cloud services that mobile developers can use to power their apps. With Firebase, which it acquired in 2014, it already offered developers a dedicated platform and SDK for building mobile apps; today it is greatly expanding this service by launching a number of new features and integrating the service deeper into the rest of its cloud tools. The new Firebase,… Read More... →

In what’s become the Google I/O defining moment, the company kicked off the 2012 event with a series of skydivers, bikers, and climbers to debut the hot newness that was Project Glass (hindsight, etc.). Two years later, Google went all Oprah on everyone and sent I/O attendees home with Cardboard headsets of their very own – this was, mind you, back in the days before the system… Read More... →

Google’s Android Wear smartwatch platform launched more than two years ago and it’s now supported by more than a dozen brands and runs on more than 100 watch designs. Today, the company took the wraps off version 2.0 of Android Wear, the biggest update of the platform yet. Google will release the developer preview of Wear 2.0 at I/O, but it’ll take until the fall before… Read More... →

В операционной системе Android N появится система защиты приложений SafetyNet, которая будет следить за приложениями на устройстве. Об этом представители компании заявили на презентации в ходе конференции Google I/O.... →

How big is the Android app ecosystem? Google gave an update on this today at its Google I/O Developer conference, when VP of Engineering Dave Burke announced 65 billion installs from Google Play over the past year. “There were 65 billion installs in the last year alone. And I’m just in constantly in awe of all the amazing apps and services that’s fueling this,” he… Read More... →