Tag: Google

May 25, 2022

The AI imagery competition is getting personal. Google this week unveiled a new challenger to OpenAI’s vaunted DALLE-2 text-to-image generator — and took shots at its rival’s efforts. Both models convert text prompts into pictures. But Google’s researchers claim their […]

May 20, 2022

This week, Bandcamp co-founder and CEO Ethan Diamond said Google has agreed to leave the music service’s Android app alone pending the court case between it and Epic Games, which recently acquired Bandcamp. Until then, Bandcamp will pay artists its […]

May 12, 2022

Mapping and navigations are areas where Google shines thanks to products like Google Maps and Waze, which are must-have apps for so many people. Unsurprisingly, Google Maps got a short segment during the Google I/O 2022 keynote this week, where […]

May 12, 2022

Android Auto, Google’s car interface app for Android, is getting a new, more flexible design at Google I/O. Android Auto previously demanded a pretty rigid screen aspect ratio. It could not handle things like large, vertically oriented car screens and […]

May 12, 2022

Google has launched Flutter 3, a major release of the cross-platform development toolkit that adds stable support for building macOS and Linux desktop apps. Flutter already provided stable support for iOS, Android, web, and Windows targets.Unveiled May 11, Flutter 3 […]

May 11, 2022

Google announced a major revamp to its Google Wallet platform that will turn it into a catch-all destination for your ID cards, payment cards, access badges, and much more. The massive expansion of its capabilities will see it crossing over […]

May 10, 2022

Google has announced a new Advanced Web Apps Fund, which is set to include in its scope anything that “improves the web as a platform for advanced apps”. Google admitted that it doesn’t have a precise definition for what “advanced […]

May 2, 2022

Google’s incredibly serious about making Android appealing to the enterprise and the broader universe of business users. That’s the official company line, at least — and the narrative Google’s been pushing hard since launching its Android Enterprise Recommended program in […]

April 29, 2022

Google has just introduced Android 13 Beta 1, aiming to improve privacy and security, as well as developer productivity. Alongside it, developers can start exploring the Privacy Sandbox Preview, a collection of technologies that improve user privacy while enabling personalized […]

April 22, 2022

Starting May 11, Google will begin rolling out a policy change to its Play Store that will prevent third-party apps from using the Accessibility API to record calls and some new consumer protections. This is the start of a year-long […]