Google I/O 2016

Google’s new 360-degree short ‘Pearl’ puts you in the passenger seat with dad and daughter

It's Friday, so you can probably spare a few minutes to watch a heartwarming little 360-degree animated film, the latest in Google's "Spotlight Stories." This one, entitled "Pearl," takes place entire

Google demos Project Ara developer unit, plans for a 2017 commercial release

It’s been a little while since we’ve heard much about Project Ara, but Google wasn’t going to let an I/O go by without shedding a little more light on the much discussed (and formerly Moto-cent

Google’s ATAP is bringing its Project Soli radar sensor to smartwatches and speakers

Every year at I/O, Google's ATAP division, which is responsible for turning some of the company's crazier ideas into products, organizes its own small keynote. This year, the company offered updates o

Google and Levi’s team up on a “connected” jacket that lets you answer calls, use maps and more

At Google’s I/O conference today, Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) research unit offered an update on its interactive textiles project unveiled last year, Project Jacquard

Houzz wins “Best App” at the inaugural Google Play Awards

Interior design and decorating resource Houzz is the overall best Android app of the year, according to Google, which this evening announced the results of the first-ever Google Play Awards at its de

Google’s Chrome OS will soon be able to run all Android apps

The Play Store is coming to Chrome OS, Google announced at its I/O developer conference today — and with that, you will soon be able to install and run virtually any Android app on your Chromebo

Rhapsody brings music to your face with VR experience

Music blasting into your ear-holes not immersive enough for you? Rhapsody's new VR app brings you as close to the music as you can get without getting sprayed with spit, sweat and god knows what else

Yes, Google is actually building its own Daydream virtual reality headset

Google dashed the rumor-fueled hopes and hype of many yesterday when it failed to bring any real VR hardware onstage and instead spent much of its time detailing the Daydream platform they would be pu

Unreal Engine adds full Google Daydream VR support, native Unity support coming this summer

VR developers looking to get started on readying content for Google’s new Daydream VR platform can get started today thanks to an Unreal Engine preview version (4.1.2) that adds support for the

Google’s Allo won’t include end-to-end encryption by default

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 Assistan

Google built its own chips to expedite its machine learning algorithms

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 Processi

Xiaomi shows off a 4K Android TV set-top box at I/O

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 f

Google asks the Internet for N-words — what could possibly go wrong?

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 naiveté here.

Google brings Android Pay to ATMs, Chrome and more apps

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. Pal

Android developers get new beta testing, analytics and pre-launch tools in Google Play

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

Google Cardboard platform picks up steam with 50M app downloads to date

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 t

Google releases an updated, faster version of Android Studio

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 con

Google takes a new approach to native apps with Instant Apps for Android

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 r

Google turns Firebase into its unified platform for mobile developers

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

This is Google’s new Daydream VR headset reference design, hardware to start arriving in the fall

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, et
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