Talk conversationally dirty to me, Google

Google’s artificial intelligence may soon be able to snatch dates away from you at the bar. It’s been reading up and refining its pickup game by reading up on romance novels:“Damn girl, this is the best French toast I’ve ever had.”and:I wanted to peel that dress off of your body myself and I’m pissed I won’t get the chance to now.It was difficult picking out passages from Kelly Elliott’s Unconditional Love, but those are just two of the many from the ...

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Gmail joins six other Google services in billion-user club

Who doesn’t use Gmail? Apparently, plenty of people still, given it took the world’s most popular email client several months longer than Facebook to cross the one billion active users mark. One billion monthly active users, to be exact, compared to FB’s daily billion count, though the feat remains a remarkable one.The figure stood at 900 million just eight months back, and in case you’re wondering, Google Search, Chrome, Android, Google Play, Maps, and YouTube indeed reached the ...

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Google optimizes Inbox search with new at-a-glance answers

Have you come around to the Google Inbox way of managing email? While the flagship Gmail brand is still the feather in Google’s cap, Inbox has emerged as an alternative, and dare we say smarter way to cut through the chaff and really get to important data living in your email. In recent updates we’ve seen Google continue to improve Inbox with features like convenient composition widgets and a semi-automated Smart Reply ...

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Inbox by Gmail streamlines response messages with Smart Reply

It’s been just over a year now since Google brought smartphone users on iOS and Android a powerful new way to manage their communications with the launch of Inbox for Gmail. From the start, the app set out to be smarter than your traditional email, using machine learning to identify message highlights, bundle similar emails together, and optimize search performance. This week Google’s announcing the latest feature to come to ...

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Inbox Android app gets two new widgets for setting reminders, composing email

What used to be one of Android’s most defining features (“You’re going to buy the iPhone?! Man, that doesn’t even have, like, widgets on the home screen.”) is now usually something we gloss over, though it’s difficult to deny the convenience they bring to the platform as a whole. Reminding us of that convenience today is Google, which has issued an update to one of its two emailing applications bringing two new Inbox Android widgets – one that will allow you to set reminders, and another that will let you quickly jump into composing an email ...

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Google updates Wallet and Inbox Android apps

We know from experience now that when Google decides to go big, it goes big. The same holds true for its app update days. Early this morning, we were hearing word of a major update to Hangouts, and then hours later we learned about a major Android Wear revision for Lollipop. ...

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Android Lollipop imminent, new Nexuses nearing, no more Nokia | Pocketnow Weekly 119

Update: The Weekly 119 is now available in super-HQ audio form – your ears will thank you if you download or stream from one of the links below. See you next week!As one brand gets a supersized juice-up, another goes a little quicker to the retirement home – and the rest undulate in uncertain undertakings from the sensational to the soporific.So it goes in mobile as in any other field, and we’re here to cover it in the brief lull between reviews at Pocketnow’s Boston offices! In between talk of the Lollipop-flavored new Nexii and the sandblasting of Nokia logos from ...

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Google updates email for 2014 with launch of Inbox for iOS and Android

Over ten years ago, Google first launched Gmail as a private beta. In the decade since, the service has gone public, spread to mobile devices, and changed the way many of us access our messages. Recent improvements to Gmail like categories have endeavored to help keep email relevant as we get more and more of it, and keeping on top of the important bits becomes increasingly difficult. Rather than continue to push Gmail further away from its ...

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