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Google Photos will use AI to suggest edits, colorize B&W photos, convert documents to PDF

Google 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Goodnight Picasa (Google shutters its first photo sharing service)

Before there was Google Photos, there was Picasa. Originally developed as a desktop app by Lifescape, Google acquired Picasa in 2004 and eventually added a photo sharing component called Picasa Web Albums. But now Google is pulling the plug on Picasa. The company says it will be retiring Picasa “over the coming months” to focus […]

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Lilbits 304: Maybe Microsoft makes more money next year

Microsoft has just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year. As expected, the company took a nearly $8 billion write-off for costs associated with its acquisition of Nokia’s phone business. So it’s probably not all that surprising that the company says revenue from its Devices and Consumer business declined. Windows OEM […]

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Google Photos offers unlimited photo and video storage

Google is launching a new service for managing, storing, and sharing your photos and videos. It’s called Google Photos and if it looks familiar, that’s because it’s the evolution of the Photos portion of Google Plus. But you don’t need a Google+ account to use the new service… and you don’t need to pay. Google Photos […]

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Report: Google Photos apps for Android to spin off from Google Plus

Like the Google Photos app for Android, but don’t like the Google Plus social network? Tough. Right now the two apps are tied together. While the Photos app gets its own icon, it’s not a standalone app. It’s actually part of Google+. But that could soon change. The folks at Android Police have obtained a […]