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Google announced a bevy of new features coming to the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, thanks to its new Tensor chip and on-device AI processing.

Google Pixel 6 has a Tensor chip that manages speech and messages on your phone. Google Pixel 6 is the first smartphone from the company that is equipped with a Tensor chip.

Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked — functions: the ability to make phone calls. In previous years, Google Assistant learned to screen your calls and make your reservations by phone via a technology called Duplex. Last year, it […]

Next stage of development will be chatbots designed to be proactive, experts say

Training AI to Better Negotiate with Humans Jul 1 2021 Despite unprecedented advancements in technology and countless depictions of complex human-AI interactions in sci-fi movies, we have yet to fully achieve AI bots that can engage in conversation as naturally as humans can. Kushal Chawla, researcher at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and a doctoral student in computer science, along with collaborators at both the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and ICT are taking us...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Over the past few years, Google (perhaps sharing younger generations’ hatred of making phone calls) has been on a tear trying to fix all the worst parts of talking on the phone. In 2018, Duplex blew Google I/O attendees away by promising to make reservations for the user with a human-sounding call system. Today, the company has added a litany of handy phone-related features for some Android phones, but a few are so buried you...

Prabhakar Raghavan is not the CEO of Google. He Just Runs the Place We use duplex to call businesses. So do you have robots making these calls and receiving information from people? I hope the other end reveals that it is a robot. “This is a Google Duplex robot. We are curious whether you have changed the hours or not ”. There is a bit of a conversation. “What happens on Saturdays?” We caught that, and we did millions of updates. Have you returned to the office? I have, but not regularl...

In his first interview since taking a top job, Raghavan gets into the future of search, misinformation, employee ferment, and robots making phone calls.

New Google Chrome feature could stop you being hacked in SECONDS Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter 19 May 2021, 17:10 Updated: 20 May 2021, 1:59 Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter Invalid Date, GOOGLE Chrome is getting a new tool that will quickly let you know if one of your passwords has been compromised. The feature will give you a warning and allow you to change your passwords in seconds. 2 The feature adds a handy "change password" button to...

(Image: Getty) Rule number one for secure passwords is dont reuse simple passwords across sites and services. Because chances are, that password has been exposed in a breach, putting your accounts in jeopardy of being hacked. But people are creatures of habit, and even the most tech-savvy web user can get lazy and re-use terrible passcodes. Google Chrome already warns you if youre using compromised passwords, but going forward, it will help you change bad passcodes with just a tap. "On support...