Category: Google

Google brings automatic call screening to all of its Pixel phones

[ad_1] The feature is available in the Call Screen tool. It screens unknown callers and ensures those it deems to be robocallers don’t bother you. Call Screen stops them from making the phone ring, and because the screening takes place on your device, it won’t use up extra data. You can switch on Call Screen […]

Google Maps for iOS and Android is getting a makeover

[ad_1] The main thing you’ll notice in the app is a five-icon navigation system down at the bottom of the screen, like so many apps have now. There are two new tabs: saved, which pulls up all the lists and locations you’ve bookmarked, and contribute, which prompts you to add photos and reviews to places […]

Google tells facial recognition startup Clearview AI to stop scraping photos

[ad_1] In an interview with CBS This Morning, the company’s CEO, Hoan Ton-That, said Clearview plans to challenge the cease-and-desist letters in court. Ton-That compared Clearview’s practice of scraping the internet for images to what Google does with its search engine. “Google can pull in information from all different websites,” he said. “So if it’s […]

Google’s new Assistant speaks a second language: Japanese

[ad_1] According to Android Police, to use Assistant in Japanese, it must be the only language you’ve enabled — you’ll have to disable any other language on your device. Don’t worry, though: you can still activate the voice AI simply by saying “OK, Google” even if you switch to Japanese. It certainly took Google quite […]

Instagram brought in more money than YouTube in 2019

[ad_1] The site might be more profitable, too. YouTube shares most of its ad revenue with creators, and its video-only focus could mean steeper costs for streaming clips. Facebook has declined to comment on the data. The company hasn’t broken out Instagram’s revenue so far, and at last check hasn’t updated Instagram’s user count beyond […]

Google Fiber stops offering traditional TV service to new customers

[ad_1] The focus on internet-only service makes sense when Google recently dropped its 100Mbps tier. Why pay for old-school TV when you have a gigabit connection that can stream video without so much as a hiccup? YouTube TV appears to be thriving with 2 million customers, and Google Fiber customers are a prime candidate for […]

Alphabet’s Jigsaw created a tool that detects doctored images

[ad_1] Images that are edited in apps like Photoshop may look convincing to the human eye, but there are many artifacts that can be more easily detected by a computer. For example, the clone tool creates repeated patterns in an image that may be virtually undetectable to the untrained eye, but — to a computer […]

Google Photos bug sent private videos to strangers

[ad_1] Whoa, what? @googlephotos? pic.twitter.com/2cZsABz1xb — Jon Oberheide (@jonoberheide) February 4, 2020 As you can see, Google will tell you clearly if any of your files were affected. Further, the warning notes that backups made during that five-day period may be incomplete. Google says it has already identified and resolved the issue and suggests deleting […]

YouTube Premium and Music have 20 million subscribers

[ad_1] The company’s live YouTube TV service fared relatively well, too, with about 2 million subscribers by the end of 2019. That makes it smaller than Hulu With Live TV’s estimated 2.7 million from November and Sling TV’s 2.69 million. However, that’s still a healthy number for a service that was comparatively late to the […]