Category: Google

Users share what makes the Google Nest Hub great

[ad_1] Hardware Nicole felt the Nest Hub’s no-frills design and fabric-clad hardware gave it a minimalist, friendly look that helped it naturally blend into a room. On this, user Richard agreed with her, stating that “looks-wise, it’s pretty sleek and doesn’t look like the monolithic block that Amazon went with for the Alexa so it […]

Reviewing the Pixel 4, Surface Pro 7 and more!

[ad_1] This week, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into some of our latest reviews: Google’s Pixel 4, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7, HTC’s Vive Cosmos and Dell’s XPS 13 2-in-1. Can Google still deliver a flagship smartphone? Is the Pro 7 just a ho-hum refresh? Take a listen! Stream the show below, or subscribe on your podcast […]

Google Pixelbook Go review: Function over form

[ad_1] In use While Google cut some corners in the design department, the Pixelbook Go is still among the more powerful Chromebooks out there. The base model pairs an eighth-generation Intel Core m3 processor with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage; the one I reviewed steps up to an i5 processor and 128GB of […]

Google’s 2020 transparency reports will include enterprise data requests

[ad_1] “The publication of this information is an important milestone in our efforts to improve transparency and help address broader uncertainty about how often governments are coming to Google to request access to enterprise customer data,” said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in a brief blog post. In the same post, Google outlines five new […]

Google researchers taught an AI to recognize smells

[ad_1] The researchers created a data set of nearly 5,000 molecules identified by perfumers, who labeled the molecules with descriptions ranging from “buttery” to “tropical” and “weedy.” The team used about two-thirds of the data set to train its AI (a graph neural network or GNN) to associate molecules with the descriptors they often receive. […]

Google explains when it slows down the Pixel 4’s Smooth Display

[ad_1] If you wanted to make everything on your screen refresh faster, you’d have to go into developer mode and enable the “Force 90 Hz refresh rate” setting. But since it was touted as one of the phone’s highlights, people expected it would work all the time. That is not the case. If you don’t […]

Google’s new apps are about reining in screen time

[ad_1] Unlock Clock adds a live wallpaper to your smartphone that tracks the number of times you’ve unlocked your device throughout the day. In this way, you don’t need to find your way to the Digital Wellbeing portion of Android’s settings menu to find how many times you’ve unlocked your phone out of pure habit. […]

Google says it’s achieved quantum supremacy

[ad_1] Quantum supremacy is a big deal, because it encapsulates the ability of quantum computers to solve problems that current technology couldn’t even begin to attempt. Google’s paper explains how its 53-bit quantum computer — named Sycamore — took just 200 seconds to perform a calculation that would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 […]

Google Home update leaves some speakers unusable

[ad_1] This doesn’t appear to affect the Home Max, displays like the Home Hub or Nest-branded speakers. It’s not clear when there might be a fix. However, it’s a serious problem for those unfortunate owners affected by the glitch. While it’s a relatively minor hassle to get a speaker replaced under warranty, many Home and […]