The keynote for Google's annual developer conference just wrapped up; here's a raw copy/paste of the notes I took. See if you can guess where I lost interest.
Sundar Pichai
- full coverage from google news is coming to search later this year
- search will also index podcasts and offer them as search results
Aparna Chennapragada
- ar + your camera is also coming to google search - view result in your space
- point your camera at a menu and google lens will tell you popular items
- point camera at bill and lens will split it for multiple diners
- for feature phones in developing markets, google lens adds these features to google go
Sundar Pichai
- duplex on the web - car reservations, movie tickets, etc.
- voice recognition ai can now fit onto a smartphone locally (0.5 gb)
Scott Huffman
- with local storage assistant is now 10x faster than before, faster than using your thumbs
- coming to 2019 pixel phones later this year
- picks for you - personalized events, podcasts, recipes - also coming this year to home devices
- personal references - data shared with google is integrated into assistant - "weather at mom's house?"
- now you can stop timers, alarms, etc. by saying "stop"
Sundar Pichai
- to combat bias in ai, search results, google is using a model called tcav
- auto-delete coming to data shared with google today
- incognito coming to maps and search this year
- two-step security is coming to android
- federated learning coming to google kb - learning new words without knowing the words you use
- live transcribe - app for hearing disabilities
- live caption - does this for youtube
- live relay - google duplex for hearing disabilities
- project euphonia - enabling als and stroke survivors to speak through their phone
Stephanie Cuthbertson
- there are currently 2.5 billion active android devices
- android q supports foldable devices, 5g, on-device learning (like apple)
- dark mode (finally!)
- security - new gartner report gives android (actually pixel) a score of 26 out of 30
- location access controls are now front and centre
- security updates are now ota modules, no reboot required
- focus mode - disable selected apps (like social media) when you're working
- family link - remote admin (limits) for your kids' devices
- q beta 3 available on 21 devices from 12 oems, plus all pixels
Rick Osterloh
- smart homes of today are fragmented and frustrating
- google home is now google nest; home hub max is now nest hub max
- available later this summer for $229 usd, current home (now nest) hub now $129 usd
- you can leave video messages on it using google duo
- pixel 3a, 3a xl, starting at $399 usd
Sabrina Ellis
- pixel 3a colours confirmed
- oled displays, stereo speakers, audio jack (!)
- cameras have night sight, portrait mode
- active edge confirmed
- 3 years of software and security updates guaranteed
- available on all us carriers and in other markets, starting today
Jeff Dean
- miscellaneous ai research jargon
Dr. Lily Peng
- ai research in diabetes, cancer research
Jeff Dean
- ai research in weather pattern prediction
- ai for social good - recipients of $25 million research grants revealed
- welcome to i/o 2019!
Look for a YouTube super-cut of the event in tomorrow morning's news briefing...
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