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Australian healthcare provider Feros Care integrates Google Assistant to bring clients easy self-service voice...
Australian not-for-profit health care provider Feros Care announced an Australian-first integration with the Google Assistant to provide customers with access to self-management service options via a voice interface.
The announcement was detailed this morning at...
Android Q Beta launch is imminent according to Google’s bug tracker
We have been speculating when Android Q Beta was going to launch with most speculation pointing to the middle of this current month based on previous years. According to the bug tracker for...
Fan renders of Google’s gaming console controller pop up in the lead up to...
OK Google, let's play. We've been hearing about a potential 'Google Gaming Console' being in the works for a while now, and we've been watching Google's game streaming trial "Project Stream" for Chrome with...
Google Podcasts adds individual episodes to search results (coming soon to Australia)
Google is slowly developing its podcast product, and while it might not have feature parity with established players in the field, it's making improvements to make it better and easier to use.
One such improvement...
Over 5 billion users have downloaded Google Maps from the Play Store
Google Maps has become the second app on the Play Store to hit five billion downloads, after YouTube became the first back in December 2018.
Technically, its the third, because Google Play Services has also...
Continued Conversations rolling out to all Google Assistant Smart Displays, even in Australia
It's no secret that we're huge fans of both Google Assistant and Google's Smart Displays here at Ausdroid, and as such any time the Assistant ecosystem reaches feature parity with itself it's a cause...
Google’s new AI platform Coral is aimed at building intelligent devices
Google has launched a new local AI platform that helps developers building intelligent devices, called Coral.
Coral offers speedy local on-device neural network performance and increased privacy. It's designed to help developers grow their ideas...
Google Podcasts update will bring episode search this week
Google Podcasts for Android is bringing an update which has been requested since the podcast app launched back in April last year, episode search, on top of the features the app has been slowly...
Google Pixel 3 vs Huawei Mate 20 Pro vs Samsung Galaxy S10 — Which...
It's a question we're asked every time a new smartphone comes out - which one should I buy?
In the realm of Android, there's really three big names you need to know about when it...
Kogan now have the Google Pixel Slate available to purchase
Last year Google released their new tablet, the Pixel Slate, running ChromeOS. Unfortunately for Australians it has not been released here and there is no easy way to get one here. Early...
Smart Compose in Gmail is now available to all Android smartphones
Smart Compose in Gmail is basically predictive text taken to the next level. Unlike your keyboard, though, which predicts one word at a time, Gmail's Smart Compose can predict whole sentences.
The feature examines what...
Google Photos disabled on Android TV due to privacy concerns
Whoops! It seems there was a bug in the Android TV function that allows you to set your screensaver function to show your Google Photos, a reasonably serious bug that (given the right circumstances)...
Grab 10% off Google Play Gift Cards from Coles beginning today
Google Play is a necessity of life for those of us in the Google Android ecosystem and some of us end up spending a fair amount of hard earned there. Luckily it is...
March security update rolling out to Google Pixel phones now
Google has begun pushing out its March security update patch to Pixel devices with the update bringing tweaks to the About menu and the ability to schedule update restarts along with the usual additional...
Sony release a new pair of Google Assistant-toting headphones: with EXTRA BASS
Sony have made great headphones for a long time with their current WH-1000XM3 widely regarded as the best noise-cancelling headphones around. Today they have announced a new set of headphones to their EXTRA...