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Google is tackling fat fingers, text translation through Gboard's AI Google Hangouts now takes advantage of iOS native-calling features Here’s what Google Lens’ Style Match, Smart Text Selection features look like JBL’s Google Assistant-powered Link Bar now available for purchase How to turn on Now Playing and see music history on your Google Pixel If you have the latest version of the Google app installed, you should see it shortly. The update is rolling out to all users gradually, Okonkwo said. Google’s Goggles app, the search giant’s artificially intelligent camera app for Android and iOS, can also translate text, and recognize bar codes and QR codes. But the app’s unceremonious abandonment - Goggles hasn’t been updated since May 2014 - is perhaps a sign that Now on Tap will pick up the machine learning torch where it left off. If a few of Now on Tap’s features sound a bit familiar, that is because many of them tread old ground.

It’ll work on “packaged products, books, DVDs, and more,” Okonkwo said.įinally, Now on Tap has gained a new section, Discover, that is intended to “help you learn more about things that interest you.” Basically, if you find yourself in the mood for internet dumpster diving, Discover will show you content tangentially related to the article, email, or conversation that is on your screen. If you’re reading an article about Jupiter, for instance, you’ll see relevant YouTube videos, photos, and news articles. Scan a book’s code and you’ll get information about its publisher and author, or scan a bag of chips and you might get nutritional information. In addition, Now on Tap can now decipher the sorts of everyday bar codes you might encounter in a supermarket or convenience store. It’s a three-step process: launch your phone’s camera application, and, while centering the QR code in your viewfinder, simultaneously launch Now on Tap. Now on Tap can now extract whatever digital content (i.e., website link or photo) is hiding behind those opaque, monolithic black-and-white boxes. Now on Tap’s other cool, new trick involves those familiar square graphics you’ve probably spotted on the sides of buildings, billboards, and bus stop banner ads: QR codes.

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