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Google just launched the ultimate keyboard app for iPhone with a built-in search bar
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, smartphone
Summary | Google launched a new keyboard app with a built-in search bar that allows you to search on your iPhone without a browser.
Image Description | Video explaining how the new app works, screenshot of a smartphone screen displaying the built-in search bar, three smartphone screens displaying the app
Image Tags | smartphone, text
Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Google boss on life beyond the smartphone and how the company will pay more tax in the UK
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, smartphone
Summary | The author of the article first describes Google headquarters (objects, atmosphere, workers etc.). She then talks about Sundar Pichai (Google's chief executive). Pichai wants people to see Google as a full-on assistant that can help them accomplish all sorts of tasks. In the future, Pichai wants Google to target homes and cars. The future is also linked to artificial intelligence. They want to work with new techniques that relie on neural networks in order to allow computers to teach themselves. Pichai talks about the future: using AI in medicine, privacy issures, personal assistants, Google search option, Google translate, and other services.
Image Description | Four photographs of Sundar Pichai, Google HQ, man holding Google Home and speaking, driveless car, video about the history of Google
Image Tags | Google, male(s)
Surfing With a New Keyboard
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, Google, smartphone, texting, translation, word/writing
Summary | Third party keyboards are now available to download to your smartphone. One of them is Gboard, it is very good at translating your texts in real-time. Some keyboards also offer a search function for emojis or GIFs. The swipe-typing feature is also very popular which allows users to swipe across the letters to enter words rather than type each individual letter.
Image Description | N/A
Planning a Trip With the Help of Google Home
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, misunderstanding, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google's artificial intelligence assistant is getting better every day. It is available on all Android smartphones and on the home speaker. It can find out web search queries, translate phrases, and help book a flight by keeping one updated about changing flight fares. Sometimes one however has to adjust one's syntax so that the AI assistant will correctly decode one's request.
Image Description | The Google home personal (AI) assistant speaker.
Image Tags | Google
Tech industry slowly rallies behind Apple in iPhone fight
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, law, privacy, smartphone, threat
Summary | The FBI had issues a court order to Apple to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists. When Apple declined, other tech magnates like Google and Facebook sided with them saying that tech companies cannot be ordered to compromise their customers' privacy by the governement. Allowing this to happen now would set a problematic precedent for the future.
Image Description | Portrait of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Mobile Devices' Built-In Keyboards Aren't the Last Word
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, spelling, texting
Summary | The built-in keyboards that we have on our smartphones are the only options available. Gboard, a third-party keyboard app works the same way and also offers punctuation and emoji options. Gboard also offers some extras: for instance, its space bar also works as a track pad, and it incorporated a search feature into the keyboard. On Gboard, you can also glide-type. Another third-party keyboard app is SwiftKey. It's good at autocorrecting mistakes thanks to artificial intelligence. Finally, there are other available apps: Fleksy, Swype, and Microsoft's Word Flow.
Image Description | N/A
Wenn das Handy antwortet: So zahlen wir in Zukunft
(When the phone responds: this is how we will pay in the future)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Various companies like Google and Amazon are coming up with new conversational commerce solutions, i.e. (voice command) chatbots with which one can conversationally make purchases online. Making payments via smartphone apps is very common in China while Switzerland is lagging behind. Some companies like Mastercard are already working on further ways to pay, namely by verbal cues. This means that people will only have to say it to secure the payment.
Image Description | Two informational videos and a series of photos from a technology convention.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
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