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    Home»World»Everything (important) Google announced at I/O

    Everything (important) Google announced at I/O

    World By Agency Staff19 May 2021
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    Google CEO Sundar Pichai

    Google on Tuesday unveiled updates across many services, including Maps, Photos and operating systems, as the company showcases its role in a world that has become more digitally connected during the pandemic.

    The announcements during the virtually held Google I/O developer conference add up to a boost for the company’s smartwatch efforts, which compete with Apple, and for its collaboration tools that rival offerings from Microsoft.

    They also show how Google is aiming to demonstrate that its advancements in artificial intelligence will keep users attracted to its ad-supported or paid services for shopping, communication and entertainment even as pandemic lockdowns ease and people resume in-person activities.

    Google said its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS, would be adopted by its newly acquired Fitbit unit

    Google said its smartwatch operating system, Wear OS, would be adopted by its newly acquired Fitbit unit and Samsung Electronics, both of which had used their own systems for years. Now working together, the companies could attract more app developers and better compete with Apple Watch.

    The company also shared new editing and viewing options for Google Docs and other work software, including a simple tool that suggests using inclusive terms instead of gendered words.

    Social justice

    CEO Sundar Pichai has made advocating for social justice a priority across the company, and in another move the company said by this spring its Pixel smartphones would better capture darker skin tones and curly and wavy hair in photos.

    AI updates included a new effort to help drivers using Google Maps reduce sudden braking by navigating them on “safer” routes. Google Photos will offer users a reminder that they can search Google Images for specific objects in screenshots.

    Google also said a more powerful computer chip, TPU v4, important to AI development would be available this year to Google Cloud customers.

    Image: Brett Jordan/Unsplash

    Android 12, the latest version of the mobile operating system active on over three billion devices globally, will arrive later this year packed with personalisation features such as customising apps’ colour schemes. It will also enable devices to be used as a digital key for some cars.

    In a tease of futuristic collaboration software, Pichai revealed Project Starline, video-conferencing booths that use so-called light-field displays to let people view a 3D representation of their counterparts. Healthcare and media companies would test the system, Pichai said.  — Reported by Paresh Dave,, with additional reporting by Subrat Patnaik, (c) 2021 Reuters

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