Official Google Australia Blog: agosto 2018

Meet your bilingual Google Assistant, and get help with Routines

viernes, 31 de agosto de 2018

Your Google Assistant now understands and speaks more than one language at a time – and is becoming more useful with custom and scheduled routines.

With the Google Assistant, it’s easy to get stuff done through a simple conversation – whether you’re looking for a delicious pumpkin soup recipe, setting a reminder to take the laundry off the line, or playing your favorite tunes. And starting today, the Assistant will become more helpful with two new capabilities: we’re adding multilingual support, so that the Assistant will be able to understand and speak more than one language at a time. Additionally, you can now set custom and scheduled routines on smartphones and speakers, making it easier to get things done quickly with your Assistant.
Talk to the Google Assistant in multiple languages Family members in bilingual homes often switch back and forth between languages, and now the Assistant can keep up. With our advancement in speech recognition, you can now speak two languages interchangeably with the Assistant on smart speakers and phones and the Assistant will respond in kind. This is a first-of-its-kind feature only available on the Assistant and is part of our multi-year effort to make your conversations with the Assistant more natural.
If you speak German at home, you can ask, “Hey Google, wie ist das Wetter heute?” And if you’re at a house party with friends, you can switch to English and say “Hey Google, play my BBQ playlist.” Currently, the Assistant can understand any pair of languages within English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. We’ll be expanding to more languages in the coming months.

Get help with your routines
Your Assistant will now be able to help you manage your daily routines and get multiple things done with a single command. We’ve put together six Routines that help with your morning, commutes to and from work, and evening at home. For example, say “Hey Google, I’m home” and the Assistant on your Google Home or phone can turn on the lights, share any home reminders, play your favorite music and more, all with just four words.

We’re also rolling out Custom Routines in Australia, which allow you to create your own Routine with any of the Google Assistant’s one million Actions, and start your routine with a phrase that feels best for you. For example, you can create a Custom Routine for family dinner, and kick it off by saying "Hey Google, dinner's ready" and the Assistant can turn on your favorite music, turn off the TV, and broadcast “dinner time!” to everyone in the house. And on Google Home devices, you can now schedule Custom Routines for a specific day or time through the settings of your Google Assistant. So if you’re keen to get back into a regular exercise routine, you can set up your workout routine to automatically kick off several times per week.
We hope that these new features will make it even easier for you to get things done – even in multiple languages.

Google One is coming Down Under!

jueves, 30 de agosto de 2018

More and more, we rely on the internet for ways to safely store the things that matter—making life simpler and less cluttered. Over the years, we’ve provided people with easy, secure ways to create, store and share files online, including 15 GB of free space with every Google Account. Thanks to mobile phones, and new file formats like 4K video and high-res photography, people are storing more than ever before.
Recently, we introduced Google One, a plan that gives you expanded storage and helps you get more out of Google. Aussies will soon be able to enjoy more options to fit their storage needs – whether you’re working, connecting with friends or preserving your memories.

More storage for what matters
Google One gives you more storage across Drive, Gmail, and Photos. With plenty of space, your most important memories and files are stored safely in original quality in the cloud and available on all your devices. We've improved the price of some of our plans and added new plan options, ranging from 100GB to 30TB, you can choose the plan that’s right for you.
More help when you need it
As a Google One member, you can easily get in touch with a team of Google experts to answer your questions—whether you need help recovering a file you accidentally deleted or want to learn how to use Gmail when you're offline.
More benefits for members
With Google One, you’ll also get extra benefits across Google. We’ve started with credits on Google Play and deals on hotels found in Google Search. In the coming months, keep an eye out for Google Store benefits and more.
More for your family
You can also share your plan with up to five additional family members. That means simplified storage under one bill, and access to the benefits of Google One.
Coming soon to paid Google Drive plans
If you have a paid Drive storage plan, you’ll be upgraded to Google One automatically over the next few weeks. Look out for an email confirming your upgrade to Google One, where you can manage your storage plan and benefits. The way you use Drive to store and share files doesn’t change.
For everyone else, we’re working to bring Google One to you over the next few weeks. If you’d like to be notified when Google One is available, sign up for an update.

Canberra businesses connect with new skills

viernes, 24 de agosto de 2018

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Announcing the 10 startups that will take the stage at Demo Day Asia

lunes, 20 de agosto de 2018

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FreightExchange from Australia connects Australian shippers and carriers with their online platform.

DycodeX from Indonesia develops Internet of Things solutions for livestock farming

FreightExchange from Australia is an online platform for freight carriers to sell their unused space to shippers.

GITAI from Japan specializes in building robots that can help humans conduct scientific experiments in space.

Marham from Pakistan is a healthcare platform that helps people search, book appointments, and consult with doctors online.

Miotech from China is a fintech startup developing artificial intelligence-based software for financial services firms.

OneStockHome from Thailand offers an e-commerce platform for construction materials.

Origami Labs from Hong Kong makes smart rings that allow people to hear and send text messages without taking out their phones.

SigTuple from India creates AI-based solutions to automate healthcare screening.

SkyMagic from Singapore produces drone swarming technology for live entertainment and traffic management systems.

Swingvy from Korea provides human resources solutions for businesses.

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SkyMagic from Singapore works on drone technology for live entertainment and traffic management systems.

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National Homelessness Week 2018: Using Ask Izzy to help understand and address homelessness in Australia

viernes, 10 de agosto de 2018

Guest blog from David Spriggs, CEO of Infoxchange for Homelessness Week 2018 14 per centAsk IzzyGoogle.org

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The Ask Izzy Open Data Platform is currently in the beta testing phase and will be available more widely later this month.

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Android 9 Pie: Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you

martes, 7 de agosto de 2018

Cross-posted from the global Keyword blog

The latest release of Android is here! And it comes with a heaping helping of artificial intelligence baked in to make your phone smarter, simpler and more tailored to you. Today we’re officially introducing Android 9 Pie.
We’ve built Android 9 to learn from you—and work better for you—the more you use it. From predicting your next task so you can jump right into the action you want to take, to prioritizing battery power for the apps you use most, to helping you disconnect from your phone at the end of the day, Android 9 adapts to your life and the ways you like to use your phone.
Tailored to you Now easy as pie
Android 9 aims to make your phone even smarter by learning from you and adapting to your usage patterns. That’s why Android 9 comes with features like Adaptive Battery, which learns the apps you use most and prioritizes battery for them, and Adaptive Brightness, which learns how you like to set the brightness in different settings, and does it for you.

Android 9 also helps you get things done faster with App Actions, which predicts what you’ll want to do next based on your context and displays that action right on your phone. Say it’s Tuesday morning and you’re preparing for your commute: you’ll be suggested actions like navigating to work on Google Maps or resuming an audiobook with Google Play Books. And when you put in headphones after work, you may see options to call your mum or start your favorite Spotify playlist.

Later this fall, we’ll also roll out Slices (pie...slices...get it?!) which shows relevant information from your favorite apps when you need it. If you start typing “Lyft” into Google Search, you’ll see a “slice” of the Lyft app, showing prices for your ride home and the ETA for a driver so you can take action more quickly and easily.

Now easy as pie
Making your phone smarter and more adaptive is important, but we also want Android to be easier to use and more approachable. In Android 9, we’ve introduced a new system navigation featuring a single home button. This is especially helpful as phones grow taller and it’s more difficult to get things done on your phone with one hand. With a single, clean home button, you can swipe up to see a newly designed Overview, the spot where at a glance you have full-screen previews of your recently used apps. Swipe up from anywhere to see full-screen previews of recently used apps and simply tap to jump back into one of them. If you find yourself constantly switching between apps on your Pixel, we’ve got good news for you: Smart Text Selection (which recognizes the meaning of the text you’re selecting and suggests relevant actions) now works on the Overview of your recent apps, making it easier to perform the action you want. You can enable this new system navigation in Settings once you’ve received your update to Android 9 (learn more in the help center).

Changing how you navigate your phone is a big deal, but small changes can make a big difference too. Android P also brings a redesigned Quick Settings, a better way to take and edit screenshots (say goodbye to the vulcan grip that was required before), simplified volume controls, an easier way to manage notifications and more. You’ll notice small changes like these across the platform, to help make the things you do all the time easier than ever.

Find the balance that’s right for your life
While much of the time we spend on our phones is useful, many of us wish we could disconnect more easily and free up time for other things. In fact, over 70 percent of people we talked to in our research said they want more help with this. So we’ve been working to add key capabilities right into Android to help people achieve the balance with technology they’re looking for.
At Google I/O in May, we previewed some of these digital wellbeing features for Android, including a new Dashboard that helps you understand how you’re spending time on your device; an App Timer that lets you set time limits on apps and grays out the icon on your home screen when the time is up; the new Do Not Disturb, which silences all the visual interruptions that pop up on your screen; and Wind Down, which switches on Night Light and Do Not Disturb and fades the screen to grayscale before bedtime.

Digital Wellbeing will officially launch on Pixel phones this fall, with Android One and other devices coming later this year. But these features are available in beta now for Pixel phones running Android 9. To try them out:

Make sure you’re running Android 9 Pie on your device. (Learn how to check which version of Android you have.)
Sign up for the beta with the email address you use with Google Play.
Accept your invitation to become a beta tester by clicking the link in your welcome email.

Once you’ve accepted your invitation, Digital Wellbeing will appear in your phone’s Settings app. It may take up to 24 hours for Digital Wellbeing to appear on your device.

Security and privacy baked in
Improving security is always important in each of our platform releases. In addition to continuously hardening the platform, and an improved security model for biometrics, Android 9 enables industry-leading hardware security capabilities to allow protecting sensitive data like credit card information using a secure, dedicated chip. Android 9 also brings important privacy improvements, such as TLS by default and DNS over TLS to help protect all web communications and keep them private.

Coming to a device near you

Starting today, an over-the-air update to Android 9 will begin rolling out to Pixel phones. And devices that participated in the Beta program from Sony Mobile, Xiaomi, HMD Global, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus and Essential, as well as all qualifying Android One devices, will receive this update by the end of this fall. We’re also working with a number of other partners to launch or upgrade devices to Android 9 this year.Learn more about Android 9 Pie at android.com/9.
Posted by Sameer Samat, VP of Product Management, Android and Google Play

Google Home Max is here, Australia

miércoles, 1 de agosto de 2018

Music fans, time to turn up the volume! Our biggest and best sounding Google Home, the Google Home Max, will be available in Australia on August 9.

Built for premium sound
Thanks to premium hardware, including two 4.5-inch high-excursion woofers, Max delivers deep, powerful bass. And it’s loud…really loud, so you can fill even the largest room in your home with your favourite music. In fact, Max is 20 times more powerful than Google Home!

Redefine how you listen to music with Smart Sound
Powered by Google AI, Smart Sound means Max can automatically adapt itself to you and your environment. Once you’ve set up Max (connecting to your compatible device and Wifi), it will automatically tune itself based on where you’ve placed it in the room. Without lifting a finger, your music will sound just as it was intended when it left the production studio. And all of this is done dynamically, so if you decide to move Max to the other side of the room, it will adapt within seconds. There’s no extra setup or testing required.

Your personal DJ, 24/7
With the Google Assistant built in, Google Home Max is always ready to start your favourite song, pause or turn it up, all with just your voice. Can’t quite remember the name of that favourite summer jam? Your Assistant can find it with just a few small details.
Google Home Max works with YouTube Music, Spotify, TuneIn and Deezer – and Chromecast is built in, meaning you can cast from your phone with many more services. For all of your other music and devices, Max has support for both Bluetooth® and aux-in, so plug in your record player and dust off your vinyl.

Control your smart home
Make Max the centre of your smart home. Google Home Max works with more than 5,000 devices worldwide, and 100+ home automation devices from more than 50 brands here in Australia—including Nest, Belkin TP-Link and Philips Hue and more. Plus, with Multiple Actions available on Google Home Max you can get more done at the same time. If you have a compatible smart plug and bulbs, try saying, “Hey Google, dim the lights, play a summer time playlist.” Google Home Max is available starting August 9 for RRP $549 from JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, David Jones, The Good Guys, Officeworks and The Google Store. Turn the volume up, Australia!Posted by Chris Chan, Product Manager, Google Home

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Meet your bilingual Google Assistant, and get help with Routines

Google One is coming Down Under!

Canberra businesses connect with new skills

Announcing the 10 startups that will take the stage at Demo Day Asia

National Homelessness Week 2018: Using Ask Izzy to help understand and address homelessness in Australia

Android 9 Pie: Powered by AI for a smarter, simpler experience that adapts to you

Google Home Max is here, Australia

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