A week ago, Microsoft held its Build developer conference in its backyard in Seattle. This week, Google did the same in an amphitheater right next to its Mountain View campus. While Microsoft’s
Google Home has spent the past year catching up. No surprise, really. The Echo had a roughly two-year head start on the device. This week, the smart home hub celebrated the one-year anniversary at I/O
One of the areas that Google talked up regarding Android beyond phones at I/O this year was in vehicles, and Android in the Car was the main way it's expanding its in-car presence. The expansion of it
For the last few years, Google's skunkworks ATAP unit always held its own keynote at I/O, Google's flagship developer conference. Often, this was where Google would show off its most experimental and
As Google looks for ways to keepĀ people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook’s Instant Articles — the company
At Google’s I/O developer event on Thursday, the company revealed Seurat, a new tool that allows for rendering of very high resolution immersive content even on mobile VR devices that don’
We're here at day two of Google I/O 2017, and the show starts with a keynote specific to Google's work in VR, led by its head of virtual reality and augmented reality, Clay Bavor. The keynote gets sta
Google's main keynote for its I/O developer conference happened yesterday, but the event isn't over yet. Far from it. Today, the company is hosting its first keynote solely focused on VR and AR. The V
Google is today making it easierĀ for users to make payments within third-party apps and mobile website, as well as in Google Assistant, when they’re out and about. No longer will the company re
Google announced today a change to its Google Play platform that will allow app makers to now place ads on the Google Play home page and app listing pages. These ads are an expansion of Google’s
The Google Play Console, Google's main tool for helping developers manage their Android applications in its store from beta to retirement, is getting a major update at Google I/O today.
Google today announced a slew of updates to its Firebase app platform that touch many of the service's core features (or will do so in the near future). More than a million developers have now created
With Instant Apps, Google is trying to bridge the worlds of web and native apps by making native apps -- even those you haven't installed on your phone -- load as fast as a web page. The company first
The vast majority of Android developers use Google's own Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Google offered a first look at what Android Studio 3.0 will look like. Most of these u
Google just kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference. It’s a great opportunity to get a sneak peek at what’s next for Android and other platforms. This year was no different a
Google has announced it's working on a service to offer detailed indoor location positioning using its Tango 3D sensing computer vision tech.
At the end of Google I/O, the company unveiled a new program to give researchers access to the company’s most advanced machine learning technologies for free.Ā The TensorFlow Research Cloud prog
Today, at Googleās I/O developer conference, the company teased that it will be working on Daydream all-in-one virtual reality headsets with partners like HTC, maker of the Vive VR headset, as well
There are 2 billion Android devices currently in use around the world. Google is now thinking about the next 2 billion devices. In order to do this, Google has a new project called Android Go. Itās
Onstage at Google I/O, VR Head Clay Bavor announced that Daydream support for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will be coming this summer. Last year, when Google announced that Samsung would be a partner on
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