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14 votes
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Google announces "Made by Google" family 2018: Phones (Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL), tablet (Pixel Slate), and virtual assistant (Google Home Hub)
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Alphabet to shut Google+ social site after user data exposed
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Why I’m Worried About Google - I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t.
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This blog has moved
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Data Factories
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Google announces "Project Stream", a test of streaming Assassin's Creed Odyssey through Chrome (signup available)
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Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
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How companies can use fake websites and backdated news articles to censor Google’s search results
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Siri, Alexa, Google - Who's using and having good experiences with voice commands?
Hi there, Big companies are spending big money on allowing consumers to control everything from their TV, smart speakers, lights, microwaves, etc with voice commands. But do people really want...
Hi there,
Big companies are spending big money on allowing consumers to control everything from their TV, smart speakers, lights, microwaves, etc with voice commands. But do people really want that?
I'm curious because I very much do NOT want to interact with computers vocally. I find it's slow and prone to error, not unlike writing out long passages on a smartphone. It functions, but it's not a great experience and remains a novelty for me.
Bought both kids Echo Dots which is a smart speaker with Amazon's Alexa assistant. It's cool, really innovative. But after a couple weeks both remain unplugged in my kids' rooms - totally lost interest. The only person who I've seen really use a voice speaker is an elderly gentlemen for whom it was the easiest way to interact with a computer (using it specifically to play music and get news).
My friend swears that teens commonly use Siri on their phones to look up information. I can only think of one person I've seen actively use the voice controls and that was an older woman who wanted show her friends how Siri could "rap."
So I was curious how many of you find yourself frequently interacting with computers via voice commands. I personally feel very awkward and self-aware and get easily frustrated because it reminds me so much of the terrible automated attendants on 800 numbers.
Edit: You all are confirming my suspicions. Anyone under age 25 use the voice commands often? I feel like this is all just the first step in designing AI interfacing
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The real reason Google made Android
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Google’s Eric Schmidt accidentally discovers labor unions
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Chrome's new forced login policy is a violation of user privacy and trust
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Planned updates for Chrome 70 to give more control of browser sign-in, show sync state, and clear all cookies
30 votes -
Google confirms it's letting third parties scan your Gmail
21 votes -
Secure, open-source alternative to Google Keep
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any...
I was looking to maybe cut down on my Googleness and replacing Keep seemed like a good start. I need something that has a simple interface and most (if not all) of the same features as Keep. Any suggestions? Also I'm on Android btw.
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Battery saver had been turned on for a lot of Pixel users unintentionally, according to Google employee
21 votes -
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers
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Google employees are reportedly resigning over China search efforts
30 votes -
Leaving Apple & Google: /e/ first beta is here
14 votes -
Inbox is signing off. Find your favorite features in the new Gmail
36 votes -
Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google
15 votes -
Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default approach to building webpages. Tell them no.
66 votes -
Ajit Pai does ISPs’ bidding, pushes for tighter rules on Google and Facebook
16 votes -
Google AMP can go to hell
7 votes -
Chinese company says they are bringing Google Cloud to China, then swiftly denies the news
4 votes -
Patent Examiner sides with inventor who claims Google is trying to patent his work he dedicated to the public domain
20 votes -
$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
16 votes -
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
26 votes -
While Google is attacked over privacy concerns and perceived bias, DuckDuckGo raised $10M
44 votes -
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance
17 votes -
Trump accuses Google of rigging search results to show mostly negative stories about him
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'F--- You!': Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders and break a cardinal rule at the company
12 votes -
Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China
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Google Needs To Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
16 votes -
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Android 9 "Pie" launched today
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Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
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A generation grows up in China without Facebook, Google, or Twitter
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YouTube deletes Alex Jones' channel for violating its community guidelines
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Google in potential cloud services talks in China, with Tencent and others
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US Lawmakers pressure Google over "deeply troubling" China censorship project
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Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
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Zooming out on Google Maps now reveals a globe
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Google's devil bargain with China is a gateway to bureaucratic hell
8 votes -
Google plans to launch censored search engine in China, leaked documents reveal
18 votes -
Inside the life of the world's first self-driving teen
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Just an observation, Google Search is ready for replacement.
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for...
We're obviously being denied the benefits of so called advances in algorithmic search, as evidenced by the poor showing of Google Itself in unusual searches. For example, if you search images for "runners wearing green hats -shamrock -st. -patrick" Guess how many runners wearing green hats you get?
So search is hard? I think it's more likely that Google and everyone else is more interested in selling you a hat than helping you find a picture of a runner in a green hat.
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Google said to deliberately make YouTube slower on Microsoft Edge, Firefox
35 votes