There’s a semiconductor shortage that’s affecting the supply of chips for a wide range of products including laptop and desktop computers, game consoles, and automobiles, just to name a few product categories. Like so many things that have happened in the past year, you can largely blame this on COVID-19, which has led to changes […]
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Lilbits: Pixel 5 custom ROMs, GPD Win 3 gameplay, and Plasma Mobile updates
Less than a month after the Google Pixel 5 began shipping to customers, developers have created the first custom ROM for the phone. GPD’s next handheld gaming computer probably won’t ship until Q2, 2020, but the company is starting to show off gameplay on a prototype of its new Tiger Lake-powered handheld. And a group […]
Google Photos is pulling plug on free unlimited photo storage
One of the best reasons to use Google Photos is that Google can automatically back up all of the photos you take with your smartphone for free. Or at least that used to be one of the best reasons to use Google Photos. Starting June 1, 2021 Google is removing that feature – you’ll still be […]
Google Photos gains text recognition (and copy/paste)
Google Photos already uses image and facial recognition in interesting ways, such as automatically grouping your photos by the people in them or letting you search for pictures with cars, dogs, or just about anything else. Now Google is rolling out support text recognition. Basically if a photo has text in it, you may be […]
Google releases Gallery Go: a lightweight, offline version of Google Photos
Google Photos has become immensely popular over the past four years, having recently crossed the billion-user line. The service lets you automatically back up your photos to the cloud, where they’re automatically organized and made searchable. You can also use Google’s tools to edit and share your photos with others. Now Google is bringing many […]
Have you emptied your Google Drive trash lately?
This week Google launched an update to its online storage service. It’s called Google One, and it gives Google users a single bucket of storage that they can use to keep photos, files, and Gmail messages in the cloud. Every user gets 15GB for free. Every now and then Google gives out some bonus storage […]
Google Photos will use AI to suggest edits, colorize B&W photos, convert documents to PDF
Comments Off on Google Photos will use AI to suggest edits, colorize B&W photos, convert documents to PDFGoogle Photos already uses machine learning in some pretty cool ways to do things like let you search for all the photos with a certain friend, family member, or pet just by tagging them once and then searching by name. Soon it’ll get a whole bunch of new artificial intelligence features, including the ability to […]
Google Lens comes to iOS (via Google Photos app)
Google Lens began rolling out to (some) Android devices last year before expanding to additional devices earlier this year. Now Google Lens isn’t just for Android anymore. Google has announced that it’s rolling out a Google Lens preview for iOS starting this week. It’s part of the Google Photos app for iPhone and iPad. Google Lens […]
If you take a lot of photos, the original Pixel has a perk the Pixel 2 does not
Google’s Pixel smartphones have some of the best cameras available on any phone. The 2016 model was one of the best available at the time… and the 2017 model is said to have an even better camera. If you use those cameras to snap a lot of photos, Google also offers a bonus feature: if […]
Google Photo Book: buy a a printed book with your best photos (made with machine learning)
1 Comment on Google Photo Book: buy a a printed book with your best photos (made with machine learning)Odds are that you take a lot of photos with your smartphone camera… but getting them off your phone can be a bit of a pain. Google Photos helps by offering an option to automatically back up your pictures to the web. But if you want to print them and store them in a photo […]
Google Photos gets faster backup option, Duo messenger adds voice calls
Google introduced new features for some of its smartphone apps at an event in Brazil today. The first is support for making audio-only calls with the Duo Messenger. Up until now you could only use Duo as a simple video messaging app, although I suppose you could block videos by placing your finger over the […]
Google PhotoScan app digitizes your analog photo collection (Android and iOS)
Odds are that most photos you snap these days are shot on your phone or a digital camera. But if you took a lot of pictures a few decades ago… they’re probably in a shoebox or photo album. Google’s new PhotoScan app is designed to make it easy to digitize those pictures and save them […]