Former Google AI Chief Will Now Head Apple’s Machine Learning and AI Strategy Apple hasappointedGoogle’s former head of search and AI, John Giannandrea, as its ‘Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy’. In his new capacity, Giannandrea will lead a combined Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) team at Apple, and will report directly to the company’s CEO, Tim Cook. The development comes just over three months afterthe former Google exec joined Applein a move that’s expected to help the iPhone-maker enhance its AI capabilities....

Fortnite for Android Will Be Released on July 24 WhilePUBGmight have brought the battle royale genre to the limelight and made itself a huge success along the way, the streak was ended by Epic Games’Fortnite: Battle Royale. With Fortnite conquering the PC and the console world, PUBG Corp. decided to release a mobile version for Android and iOS which, surprisingly, actually runs better than the PC port. On the other hand, Fortnite had also released a mobile game which was available only on iOS....

Google Assistant Now Shows Up Different Colors for Each Voice Google had previously rolled a total of 6 new voices for its Google Assistantback at the I/O 2018 conference. However, now a new update is coming to the assistants and this one makes everything a lot more colorful. Google is rolling out an update to its Assistant service that will assign colors to its various artificial intelligence voice options. Basically, whatever voice option a user is currently using will be given a color, and the colors have been randomly selected by Google so as not to associate any one color with a certain gender or intonation....

Google Brings Responsive Search Ads With Machine Learning Integration Last month, Googleannouncedsweeping changes to the company’s portfolio of advertisement products by streamlining its offerings such as AdWords, and making it easier for businesses and advertisers to choose the most suitable option for their campaigns. At the Google Marketing Live event today, Google has unveiled new ad marketing tools that come with machine learning smarts, and has announced the integration of ML tools in existing products....

Google Maps Now Available for Reliance JioPhone Earlier this year, KaiOS, the platform powering the new breed of smart feature phones such as the Nokia 8110 and the Reliance JioPhone,announcedthat it has partnered with Google to bring features such as Google Assistant, Google Maps, YouTube and Google Search to smart feature phones. Following investments byRelianceandGoogle, the KaiOS-poweredJioPhone has finally received support for Google Maps. Announced back in July last year, the JioPhone was expected to get support for Google products, including Google Maps, in the future....

Infinix Hot 6 Pro With Face Unlock Launched in India For Rs 7,999 Infinix has announced the launch of its latest smartphone in India. Called the ‘Hot 6 Pro’, the device is the latest product to be launched by the company as part of its ‘Hot’ smartphone series that includes the Hot 4 from last year. The company also markets phones under a bunch of other lineups, including Note, Hot S and Zero....

Instagram Adds Question Stickers to Stories, and It Makes Very Little Sense Instagram has been adding a ton of features to Stories lately, so much so that it could be an app by itself. You havepolls,music stickers,shopping linksand a lot more! Add one more to the list, but this one makes little sense for me. Instagram is now introducing a new spin on poll stickers for Stories, by adding a new Question sticker....