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Enlarge ImageThe Google Doodle team pays tribute to the Copa America Centenario. Screenshot by Andrew Gebhart/CNET Are you ready for some futbol?Today's Google Doodle celebrates the start of the Copa America Centenario -- the 100th year of the Copa America soccer touament featurin...

Taylor Martin/CNET Ever since Google introduced Now on Tap as part of the Android Marshmallow update last year, more suggestions as you work in other apps has been one thing we've been hoping for. Fortunately, we got a little of that yesterday when Google added text and image search to its personal assistant feature.With text, users can select specific words or phrases to get a definition and links to relevant apps. For now, only English is supported, but more languages are coming soon.The new image features comes in two forms, the first being a reverse search. Tap an unfamiliar photo either in your Photos folder or another app to surface a card with information such as the location. When us...

[embedded content] German director and animator Lotte Reiniger would have been 117 today. Bo in 1899, she was one of the pioneers of animation, and is widely credited with having made the world's first full-length animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed," in 1926.What made Reiniger's style unique, and what is being celebrated in today's Google Doodle, was her inspiration: from a very young age, she was fascinated with the shadow puppetry of China. Her films were created using intricately detailed shadow puppets, filmed using a technique we would now call stop motion, moving the puppets a little bit at a time between frames. She also developed and used in the world's first multiplane ...

Move over Gaga, here comes Google. The Web giant on Wednesday unveiled a 90-second piano melody (mp3), the first piece of art created by machine leaing as part of Project Magenta. The project, aounced last week at Moogfest, is an artificial intelligence effort to create original music and visual art. Along with creating music and art, another goal of the project is to build a community of artists, coders and machine leaing researchers, Douglas Eck, a research scientist working on Project Magenta, wrote in a blog post Wednesday explaining more about the team's ambitions. Eck wrote that the team wants to open-source the infrastructure, begiing with audio and video support.One of the greatest c...

Google An Android Police teardown of the APK for Google Photos' next update looks like there are some new tweaks and features coming to the backup and storage service, including a pot sweetener for Nexus users. A line in the code reads "Unlimited free storage for original quality photos -- videos uploaded from your Nexus device."Currently, Google Photos caps photo size at 16MP and videos at 1080p. This new feature for Nexus owners means that these will no longer be capped, and photos and videos can be backed up and stored at their original size. For photos, that's not a big deal, since the best Nexus camera shoots 12.3MP, but it makes room for better device cameras in the future. However, th...

Three This week the dashing Andrew Hoyle is joined by the majestic Katie Collins to discuss the week's most pressing tech news. The duo discuss the possibility of not one but two Xbox consoles arriving in the next two years, why Three wants to block all adverts appearing on its network and why Google wants to name and shame companies that don't update their phones fast enough.All that, and whether or not Gillian Anderson of "The X Files" fame would make a brilliant female Bond. Finally, Luke Westaway didn't want us to forget that he and Rich Trenholm have seen the new "X-Men" film and have made a lovely video about it, which you can watch below. Be waed, though: it's f...

Google and Oracle aren't together on Thursday's verdict. Corbis/Getty Images Software can continue talking to software the way it always has.That's because a jury found Thursday that Google's Android mobile operating system doesn't violate copyrights owned by Oracle. Rather, it's covered by fair use. The case, brought by Oracle, involved application programming interfaces, which gove how code communicates with other bits of code. The APIs were part of Java, which Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems. The case was widely watched because of its potential to change the way apps are written for the Android OS going forward. That's a big deal because almost two thirds of the world's mo...

Google's doodle on May 26 honors Frankie Maing, the man who changed swing dancing forever, on his 102nd birthday. Google Yes, I know it's not 1996, but the folks at Google still think that swing dancing is cool.That's why Google is honoring the 102nd birthday of one of the great iovators in swing dancing, Frankie Maing. Today, Google has made its doodle, created by Nate Swinehart, one that celebrates Maings' acrobatic style, showing dance partners jumping and spiing around the Google logo.It all started one moing in 1929 when Frankie Maing, who was only 15 years old at the time, passed the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem on his way to Sunday school, according to Google's explanation of today's d...

James Martin/CNET Sick of waiting for your phone to get the latest version of Android? So is Google, apparently. To help speed the process, the tech giant may start shaming companies that take too long to bring fresh versions of Android to their handsets.Google already has a list that ranks manufacturers by how up-to-date their handsets are, Bloomberg reports. While this list is currently only available inteally -- and to the manufacturers themselves -- Google is reportedly plaing to make the list public.In doing so, it will hopefully shine a spotlight on those firms that take too long in updating the phones. Google is yet to respond to a request for comment.Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Eric Schmidt, iPhone user. Stephanie Pilick/dpa/Corbis Please try to imagine Steve Jobs wandering around with a Samsung Galaxy in his pocket.Somehow, it's hard.Yet at Google, they claim to be a touch less stringent about these things.Take Google holding company Alphabet's executive chairman Eric Schmidt. For years, he's been proudly admitting that he has an adoration for his BlackBerry.However, as CNBC reports, he's now confessed to something far more heinous, should you be of the Android persuasi...

If Brian May could capture one moment from his life so that others could step inside that moment and experience it, it would be the time he strode onto the roof of Buckingham Palace alone except for his guitar and played to 200 million people."I'd love people to know what that felt like," said the Queen guitarist. "It was a whole life-changing experience for me."No-one but May will ever know what it was like to perform on the roof of 'er majesty's gaff for the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2002. But the legendary guitarist is giving music lovers a chance to see what it's like to be part of a Queen show, thanks to virtual reality.The band filmed its recent Barcelona concert with 360-...

Enlarge Image Sam Falconer It's a busy time of year if you're a geek. While others are prepping their beach bods, the CraveCast crew is more conceed with what's going down on all sorts of screens. Join us live for our next show Tuesday, May 24, at noon PT when Kelsey Adams...

Enlarge ImageThe Google Home would love to have a chat. Ly La/CNET One of the first things Genevieve Bell did after bringing home an Amazon Echo was ask the smart speaker to set a timer. After the Echo replied in its soft, reassuring female voice, Bell told the device "thank you." "When was the last time you said 'th...

Enlarge Image Screenshot by Luke Lancaster/CNET Google aounced Science Joual, a new Android app for budding scientists in a blog post on Google for Education. Aiming to "bring out that ier scientist in all of us", the new app will use the existing sensors in you...

One killer messenger app. That's all you need. Not the four that Google seems to think you do. At Google I/O, the Inteet giant's aual conference for developers, Google unwrapped two new, very distinct messenger apps that will work on iOS and Android phones "this summer." There's Allo, for messages and emojis, and Duo for videoconferencing. This is already on top of Google Messenger and Hangouts, each of which handles both texts and video calls.What gives, Google? Do we really need all these messaging apps?Google says we do. Allo and Duo are both apps that Google built from scratch, not based on any existing code for Hangouts or Messenger. And both new communication apps draw deeply on machin...

At its aual developer's conference today, Google aounced that its long-awaited modular phone will be available to developers by the end of this year. And if everything stays on schedule, consumers will be able to get their hands on it by 2017.Known as Project Ara, the handset will have detachable hardware components that you can swap out according to your needs. This allows users to customize their device according to their preferences (for instance, someone who enjoys photography can choose a camera module with a higher megapixel count and superior sensors) and let them upgrade certain parts whenever they see fit.The concept of a modular phone has been a long-awaited dream for the mobile in...

Google and Levi's is showing off its latest wear: a commuter smart jacket.On Friday, the tech giant and the denim maker unveiled the jacket which is part of their Project Jacquard collaboration that is geared toward cyclists on the move. The jacket will be available in beta version this fall with widespread release next spring. It wasn't immediately clear how much it would cost. With "a gesture, a tap, a swipe" you'll be able to get driving directions and control tunes with a sensor in the left cuff of the jacket. The thinking is that you can do this without having to look at any displays and keep your eyes directly on the road while riding your bike.Take a quick look for yourself: The jacke...

RoadshowNewsEarth, Google and Fire: Some jerk apparently tried to torch a Google mapping carEnlarge ImageWhile Google uses satellite imagery for Google Earth, I'm assuming the MVPD meant to call it a Google Maps car, as it regularly uses vehicles to flesh out its cartogr...

The very first Google I/O conference didn't have the puffy white tents or long lines of this year's show, held at an outdoor concert venue in Mountain View, Califoia -- and it certainly didn't have attendees fretting about seagull droppings splatting down from overhead. We would know. We were there.Enlarge Image...

Go ahead: Ask Google anything. James Martin/CNET Google wants to go beyond being a search bar, instead providing its know-how anywhere people may want.To that end, the company's aual I/O conference focused heavily on Google assistant, a digital butler that can fetch all kinds of information for users and help them complete tasks. The platform will first live in the new Google Home smart speaker and the Google Allo messaging app.Though this software sounds promising, we discuss how realistic some of Google assistant's capabilities will be starting off and if some of Google's new tools and hardware are just copycats of products from other tech companies.The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and an...