Google Announces Edge TPU, Cloud IoT Edge at Cloud Next 2018 After unveiling its enterprise Cloud Services Platform on the first day of its Cloud Next conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA,Googleused Day 2 of the event to announce two new products that the company says will help customers“develop and deploy intelligent connected devices at scale”. The first,Edge TPU, is a new IoT-focused hardware chip for the edge environment, while the second,Cloud IoT Edge, is a software stack that extends Google Cloud’s AI capability to gateways and connected devices....

Google Assistant Reigns Supreme Over Siri, Alexa and Cortana in Search Test Virtual assistants are everywhere, and one of the most popular offshoots of the AI trend that’s sweeping the tech world. With so many AI assistants around, there is always a debate about which is the smartest? And like afew of these tests in the past, Google Assistant seems to be the answer in the latest one conducted by Loup Ventures....

Google Releases Final Android P Beta Build Before Stable Update The final Android P beta update (Android P Beta 4 / Developer Preview 5) is now available for supported devices such as Google’s Pixel lineup and other OEMs part of the Beta program. Android P Beta 4 is thelast preview milestonebefore the stable Android P update begins rolling out in the upcoming months. “Today’s Beta 4 update includes a release candidate build with final system behaviors and the official Android P APIs (API level 28), available since Beta 2....

Google Shows Off Material Theme Redesign For Gmail On Android Google’sMaterial Design 2.0brings forth some interesting new changes, and in line with the new guidelines that were announced at its I/O developer conference earlier this year, the company has gone a redesign spree, and has been steadily rolling out revamped and redesigned versions of many of its products, including Gmail, Chrome, and Google Drive on the web. Interestingly, we recentlygot a sneak peekat the upcoming all-white Material Theme design that could eventually find its way to the Android versions of Gmail, Photos and Maps....

Google Unveils Titan Security Key to Replace 2FA, But Yubico Raises Security Concerns A Google representative recentlyrevealedthat the over 85,000 of the company’s employees have been using physical security keys, which are USB-based devices that offer an alternative approach to two-factor authentication (2FA), and it has yielded a high success rate since being deployed in 2017. Google has now unveiled its very own physical security solution called the‘Titan Security Key’, which uses the multi-factor authentication Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard....

How to Hide Apps on iPhone X (Guide) We all know that iOS is a fairly restrictive operating system and we cannot make a lot of system level changes. That’s why things like locking apps with your biometric data or hiding individual apps from being seen are somethings users cannot really do. However, many people don’t realize that if you dig into its Settings, you can find some amazing hidden features that iOS has on offer....

How to Record Calls Using Truecaller on Android The ability to record calls on your Android device is a feature which only a few smartphone manufacturers include by default. Since call recording is illegal in many countries, it deters manufacturers from including this service by default. While I can understand why these laws exist, I cannot deny the fact that call recording is a very handy feature to have. I personally record all my work calls just to make sure that I never forget what was discussed....