How to use Google's Motion Stills app to be more creative with Apple's Live Photos

Google this week updated its Motion Stills app — which stabilizes Apple's Live Photos, and enables quick creation of GIFs and short movies — with support for exporting back to the Live Photos format. Here's how to do that and use the app in general.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 0

Chrome 57 for Mac throttles background tabs for better CPU use & battery life

The desktop versions of Chrome — including the Mac edition — now throttle the performance of background tabs, according to Google, reducing CPU demand and hence the browser's power consumption on MacBooks.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 17

Google adds Safari-like 'Reading List' feature to Chrome for iOS

Google on Tuesday updated its Chrome browser for iOS with the "Reading List," a feature mimicking an identically-named counterpart in Apple's Safari.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 5

Google launches Uptime collaborative YouTube viewing app exclusively for iOS

Google's "Area 120" incubator project has developed Uptime — an iPhone app for watching YouTube videos collaboratively with other users of the app.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 1

Google radically scales back glassy new HQ plans, unveils conventional corporate building instead

Less than two years ago, Google unveiled plans to build a new campus project as a vast open air city replete with greenery, inside of a massive glass greenhouse atrium. Now, the company is forwarding plans to build a basic tent-shaped building.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 72

How Google's lack of human curation spreads and monetizes fake news

Google search is developing a credibility problem that could be blamed on artificial intelligence. In a statement, the company said its algorithms for generating "featured snippet" answers can cause "instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content," resulting in false answers. However, Google is also the source—and funding—behind much of the fake news on the Internet, thanks to a similar lack of curation for YouTube.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 51

Google Keep for iPhone and Mac disappoints, imposes profound limitations on users

Even with Google's powerful search, the company's Keep service is too lightweight for serious use, but AppleInsider squeezes the most out of it that we can.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 24

Google's second-gen Pixel due in 2017, will tackle Apple iPhone in 'premium' segment

Riding off the success of its first self-designed phone, the Pixel, Google is at work on a second-generation model that will continue to challenge Apple's iPhone in the "premium" smartphone market, the company's hardware chief revealed on Friday.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 48

Google director hints at advanced Assistant tech coming to Apple's iPhone

Google Assistant — the chief rival to Apple's Siri — could be coming to the iPhone and iPad in the future, a Google director hinted on Thursday.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 18

Google's Chromebook Pixel ends up another F for Alphabet

In a meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress, Google's senior Vice President of hardware Rick Osterloh reportedly described the "end of the line" for the company's premium notebook bearing the Pixel brand, after shipping just two editions of the product since 2013.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 41

Microsoft adds Google Calendar & Contacts support to Outlook 2016 for Mac

Microsoft on Wednesday launched preliminary support for Google Calendar and Contacts data in Office 2016 for the Mac, filling in a significant gap in the email and scheduling app. Along the same lines, Gmail accounts can now make better use of Outlook features.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 6

Google Meet video conferencing app goes live on iOS, pulled from App Store

A new video conferencing service for business users from Google called Meet has partially gone live before an official launch, with an iOS app for the enterprise-focused meeting tool briefly appearing in the App Store before being pulled.

Malcolm Owen 9 years ago 9

YouTube TV to offer live TV from four major networks this spring for $35 per month

Google on Tuesday announced YouTube TV, a live TV service launching this spring that will compete with other internet-only providers like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue.

Roger Fingas 9 years ago 48

Patent owner infographic shows contrast between Apple, Google inventor's cultures

A pair of visualizations comparing Apple's and Google's "innovation signatures" shows the difference in corporate cultures between the two giants, but doesn't tell the entire tale.

Mike Wuerthele 9 years ago 16

Editorial: The future of Steve Jobs' iPad vision for Post-PC computing, part 2

In 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad as a new product category between the smartphone and notebook. Born into ridicule, there's still a widespread misunderstanding of what iPad actually is, seven years later. Here's a look at why.

Daniel Eran Dilger 9 years ago 37

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