android
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AI Test: Can Google Lens Actually Recognise Stuff?
My dog, Alice, is an RSPCA special. She’s a nearly 40kg mix of every medium-to-large working breed without any distinguishing traits. Alice is such a mongrel that she’s registered as a ‘mixed cross’. Maybe Google Lens would be able to work out what breed she is. Its first guess was Dachshund/Corgi cross. That’s not right.…
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Beta-Test The Google App To Share Search Results More Easily
Android: How do you normally share search results from Google with your friends? I confess, I’ve never copied-and-pasted the gigantic URL for the results page to anyone else; I usually just use the deliciously passive-aggressive “lmgtfy.com” to help them out. Maybe I’m a jerk.
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Don’t Depend On Google Assistant To Remember Your Parking Spot
Thanks to Google Assistant, you’ll never lose your car in the parking lot again — but you shouldn’t be losing it anyway, as you’ll get better accuracy if you remember to tell your smartphone where your parking spot is before you leave your car.
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No, You Still Shouldn’t Let Facebook Pay You To Track Your Phone Habits
Facebook wants to know as much about you as possible—if you let it. This week, the social giant launched a new app-based market research program called Study from Facebook. If you participate, you’ll get paid to run an app on their your phone that tracks what other apps you’ve installed and how you’re using them.