Thursday, May 16, 2013

Google I/O Live Blog - Business Insider

just wrapped up a massive keynote presentation at its annual I/O developers conference, which culminated in a surprise appearance by CEO

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Page gave an insightful speech about where he sees technology moving, noting that we as a race have only achieved 1% of what we're capable of. In a surprising move from a CEO of a major company, Page then took questions from the audience where he touched on everything from getting more women involved in technology to Google's future in the real world with projects like self-driving cars.

Before Page's appearance, Google's executives showed off a slew of new products and updates to existing products. Google+ has a brand new look, there's a new streaming music service, and Google Maps is getting a massive, gorgeous update.

A lot happened, so check out our stream of events below to catch up on all the news that happened today.

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This is a big thank you to the 6,000 developers in attendance today.

Most people in the world used one operating system, Windows. With the advent of smartphones and other mobile devices...people are adopting web-connected devices.

This is a pretty wonky explanation. Barra is talking about Google Services, which are tools Android developers can use to make apps.

One new tool is a location API that will greatly reduce the battery life your phone's GPS uses. That's a big deal because many location apps suck away battery power.

Another tool is called Activity Recognition. It can automatically figure out if the user is walking, driving, or biking. This will be useful for mapping apps.

Developers can also use Google+ so users can sign into a service on the website and log into the Android app at the same time.

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This means players can save their games virtually. You can start a game on your phone and pick up playing where you left off on your tablet.

Google+ Circles will let you compare stats and scores in games with your friends. It'll also work on iPhone/iPad and the Web.

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It also encourages developers to make tablet version of their apps, which is a good move. Android tablets usually just run bigger versions of the smartphone apps, which doesn't look good on a large screen.

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He's going to talk about some new features in the Android app store that will make it easier for you to find apps.

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We're getting a demo now.

It has editors that curate songs.

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You can add songs to your playlists and listen to songs you have stored in your virtual file locker.

The menu changes based on what you've listened to recently and what's stored in your online locker.

If you sign up before June 30, you only have to pay $7.99 per month.

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The crowd was not happy about the price. Lots of grumbles.

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It's pretty impressive. The demo shows a game from "The Hobbit" movie with 3D graphics and touch controls. Not bad for a game running entirely in the browser.

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He's talking about some developer tools for Chrome that will improve speed and image loading.

He also showed off some tools that will make shopping online easier on Chrome for mobile devices and others that will make designing for the Web look the same on any device.

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The Pixel is a great computer with a high-resolution touchscreen. The crowd went nuts.

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Google has some new tools that make it easy for teachers to send apps to their students' tablets.

Schools can make purchase orders for apps in a special version of the Android store.

New stream design and new photos.

It's really pretty. It has a multi-column design with content shared by your friends. Posts like photos and videos can span multiple columns. There are some really neat animations for menus too.

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Big lead up here. Gundotra criticized Apple's chatting tools for only working with other Apple devices.

It's a standalone app. The app keeps all your shared photos and texts in one stream. You can also video chat with your groups of friends. It syncs across all devices: web, Android, iOS. The app launches today. It's kind of like GroupMe and Facebook Messages merged together.

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You can't do that on popular services like Instagram or Facebook.

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How does it know?

It takes out blurry images and duplicates.

It can also recognize landmarks and feature those photos.

The machine algorithms can tell if people are smiling and can pick out pretty shots.

Finally, it recognizes people close to you and features photos with them in it.

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It can also tell if you've taken multiple photos of the same group of people and composite a photo where they're all smiling.

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This is Google's search tool that brings you the answer to the questions you ask.?

Eventually, Knowledge Graph will be able to anticipate what question you'll ask next based on older searches.

This is already available on mobile phones, but now it's part of Chrome for desktop.

You don't even have to touch a button. Just say "Okay, Google" and ask your question.

Google Now getting an update that lets you set your own reminders.

Hands free: "Okay, Google. Show me things to do in Santa Cruz."

Very cool!

It's really smart. You can ask it any kind of question you want. You speak to Google naturally. No typing necessary.

"How long will it take me to drive to Santa Cruz beach?" ?? Google shows you directions with Google Maps and tells you how long it'll take to get there.

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You can set reminders, send emails, etc. "Remind me to call Katie next Wednesday."

Reminders can work on times, dates, locations. For example, you can say, "Remind me to take out the garbage when I get home," and Google Now will remind you.

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Talking about the launch of Google Maps on iPhone. "...and most importantly, it's accurate." Nice jab at Google.

The app includes Zagat integration for restaurant and venue reviews.

You can search for basic stuff like "coffee." Google Maps also integrates offers from big brands like Starbucks. You can redeem the offer within the app.

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Traffic view will alert you when there's an accident on your route.

Dynamic rerouting: Google can warn you of poor conditions ahead and change your rout.

Includes the iPad.

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There's a gorgeous full screen mode. The side bar is now gone.

It also connects to Google+ so you can get recommendations on venues that your friends like. You can even peek inside of venues like restaurants.

It uses Google Now data to learn your habits and get better the more you use it.

If you click on a certain area in Google Maps, road names and landmarks will automatically pop up. It also recommends other similar places to explore.

There's a new schedule viewer for public transit, walking, or biking. It tells you exactly how long it'll take for you to get somewhere.

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It looks incredibly realistic. Gorgeous. And it's all done within the browser. You can also take a 3D tour inside of buildings. This is an amazing demo.

Users can upload their own photos inside buildings and add to Google Maps.

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He's going over the importance of building great experiences across all the various devices we use today.?

"Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life."

Devices will eventually understand context in your life and make your life better. But we're at the early stages.

Says companies need to add interoperation with other companies. "I've been sad the industries hasn't been able to advance those things...focus on negativity and zero-sum games."

"We have a strong desire for freedom of speech and free flow of information."

Make sure we talk to government leaders around the world to advance that.?

Making sure we protect private information, ensure computer security...and being as transparent as we can about requests we get from governments.

"I think it's kind of sad we have all these computers out there and they're all connected to each other through a tiny little pipe that's super slow."

We know if we build that capacity, we'll be able to build those computers to do great things.

Google X is focused on these projects. Sergei Brin is heading up these projects.

"Possibilities for some of those things are incredible great."

Technology in transportation hasn't really started yet...it's also a way the company can scale. All our products are interrelated.

When we launched Gmail people said we were nuts because we were a search company...but we new a lot about data centers etc...it was great we did it.

No matter how much money we try to spend on automated cars, etc...they end up being small chunks so they don't end up being a business issue.

Glass is different than existing computing devices...our main goal is to get happy users using Glass.

Want to make sure we're building experiences that really make people happy.?

Team built minimal set of things that make happy users.

We'll get going and work on it for the next 10 years.

Part of the answer is we don't know...I think the basic use cases we have around photography are amazing.

Communications are amazing, navigation is amazing. Walking around Manhattan is really nice.

Ultimately a lot of your experiences can move to Glass...a lot of you can figure that out.

"I use Google a lot...understand the crazy people in an area."

You want to think about the biggest thing...raw materials of smartphones only cost $1...so when I see people making things in the industry I ask how far off you from the raw materials cost...they never know the answer.

You have to ask what is the real issue...I don't think people answer those questions. Most of the work that's done is very incremental and we don't make the progress we need to.

I encourage non-incremental thinking and a real deep understanding of what you're doing.

"Yeah we've had a difficult relationship with Oracle."

Money is more important to them than any sort of collaboration. I think we'll get through that.

"I think people are concerned about change...and change is good...we haven't adapted mechanisms to deal with that."

"I think it's been difficult...we had Google Health...did not make much progress on it. All issues were regulatory."

I think we'll see amazing things in healthcare...like DNA sequencing...something amazing will happen.

I just disclosed my voice issues yesterday and I got so many thoughtful emails and great advice...I felt I should've done it sooner. I asked why people are so focused on keeping medical history private...the answer is probably insurance...that makes no sense...we should change the rules so insurers have to insure people.

We've been super focused on that forever...Sergei and I spend a lot of time interviewing women.

The only answer is we have to start early and make sure we get more young women and girls excited about technology.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-io-live-blog-2013-5

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