/Gizmo News

Google’s Instant Apps are now generally available to all Android developers

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

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 [...]

Daydream VR support is coming to Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus this summer

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Onstage at Google I/O, VR Head Clay Bavor announced that Daydream support for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ will be coming this summer. Last year, when Google announced that Samsung would be a partner on Daydream, many expectedly [...]

Everything Google announced at its Google I/O keynote

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google just kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference. It’s a great opportunity to get a sneak peak at what’s next for Android and other platforms. This year was no different as the company announced a ton [...]

‘A robot doesn’t have to shoot back,’ Rodney Brooks says of machines in the military

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Rethink Robotics co-founder and CTO, former CSAIL director and all-around robot luminary Rodney Brooks joined the Disrupt New York stage this afternoon to tackle some complex questions, ranging from robots place in the living room to the battlefield. [...]

Google is giving a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs to researchers for free

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

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. The TensorFlow Research Cloud program, as it will be called, will be [...]

Google to launch a jobs search engine in the U.S.

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google announced today it’s launching its a jobs search engine in the U.S. The service will focus on all types of jobs – from entry-level and service industry positions to high-end professional jobs. It will also leverage Google [...]

Google has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google has announced it’s working on a service to offer detailed indoor location positioning using its Tango 3D sensing computer vision tech. Read More on Tech Crunch

Android O beta is available today

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s already been available for a few months as a developer preview, but now the rest of us can finally get our hands on an upcoming version of Android. Android O Beta starts shipping today, if you point [...]

Google makes Kotlin a first-class language for writing Android apps

May 17th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor is JetBrains, the company behind tools like IntelliJ. It’s 100 [...]