Google Lens in Pixel’s Assistant can now recognize famous people

Google Lens in Pixel smartphones is now able to recognize photos and depictions of well-known people like actresses, celebrities, and politicians. It’s not clear when the ability to recognize celebrities was added to Lens in Google Assistant. The feature was identified during Lens tests conducted by VentureBeat this week. Google did not respo…Read More

Google isn’t honoring Pixel’s warranty, so we’re suing, customers say

The same San Francisco law firm that recently settled arbitration claims against LG over the “bootloop” issue has now filed a new proposed class-action lawsuit against Google. This time, the firm is alleging manufacturing defects in the microphone on Pixel and Pixel XL handsets. The firm’s clients—Patricia Weeks of Florida and Waleed Anbar of California—say […]

Lawsuit claims Google ‘knowingly sold’ Pixels with microphone issues

Shortly after Google released its first branded smartphones in 2016, the Pixel and Pixel XL, some early adopters reported a microphone issues. While they were fixed in phones produced later, the problems disabled all three mics on the devices and often cropped up at odd times, like when holding the devices in different ways or […]

‘Significant Zero’ and ‘Blood Sweat and Pixels’ Review: Taking On Game Development, and the Demon That Is “Crunch”

Two recent books take readers into the pressure cooker that videogame development can so often become. https://media.wired.com/photos/59cd8cdf1609f048a8833574/master/pass/VideoGameBook-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest

Imagine a world where every Android phone has the Google Pixel’s camera

I’ve made no secret of my deep and passionate love affair with the camera inside Google’s Pixel. The phone itself is nothing special, but the pictures I take with it are a whole new level of awesome that I’ve never previously experienced with any mobile device. So spending the week at Mobile World Congress in […]

Google Pixel’s Assistant AI upgraded for smart home control

At Google I/O last May, the tech giant announced its own voice-powered hub to rival Amazon’s Echo: the Home, which would be powered by their AI helper, Assistant. The Siri-like software was promoted as a standard feature on the search titan’s first phone, the Pixel, which came out later in fall. But Google announced a […]