This year’s Google I/O conference saw the internet giant unveil a raft of new platforms and features. We look back at the top nine announcements from the event, from smart homes to streaming apps…
Google has launched Google Home, a small speaker capable of answering voice commands through a new digital assistant.
Car-hailing app Uber has begun testing a self-driving vehicle in a move that threatens to further disrupt the taxi industry.
Google has launched Spaces, a collaborative messaging app similar to the increasingly popular Slack.
How far would most small businesses go to beat their competition online? A new study has revealed the shocking (and illegal) lengths some would go to sabotage competitors’ search rankings.
The YouTube app on iPhones now supports Cardboard, Google’s own viewer headset that lets users experience virtual reality.
Google has added shopping ads within its image search results, showing related products next to Google Images.
Google’s AI has been set loose on 11,000 unpublished books, including 3,000 steamy romance titles, in a bid to produce more naturalistic sounding vocabulary. As a result, the machine produced some surprisingly abstract and melancholy poetry.
Google has launched a new keyboard for iOS devices that directly integrates search functions, such as maps, GIFs or shopping results, into user’s messages.
The average click-through rate for premium native ads on mobile is now 137% higher than on desktop, according to new research.