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Live blog: Google I/O 2013 keynote

Devindra Hardawar May 15, 2013 8:38 AM

Google IO 2013 3

Google I/O 2013, the company’s annual developer conference, will kick off soon with a massive 3-hour keynote. We’re on the scene and ready to liveblog the heck out of this thing.

News announced so far:

  • Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech
  • OK, Google, your conversational search is awesome as hell
  • Maps rebuilt from the ‘ground up,’ iPad version coming this fall
  • Google Play for Education could kill the iPad in schools
  • Major design overhaul makes Google+ look a whole lot like Pinterest
  • Hangouts, the best part of Google+, gets standalone iOS, Android, and Chrome apps
  • Google Glass is for dorks — and for doctors
  • Google Glass gets first news app for the ‘connected generation’
  • Google gives mobile developers some massive love with 5 new money-making features
  • Google’s latest Nexus phone is an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 with pure Android
  • Google Chrome reaches milestone of 750M montly active users
  • Google announces its Spotify competitor, Google Play Music ‘All Access’ — ‘radio without rules’
  • Google releases location APIs that may hugely help fitness apps
  • Google Play game services is a Xbox Live-like mobile network — and offers cross-platform gaming
  • Google Play has 48B app installs, 2.5B in the last month alone
  • 900M Android activations to date, Google says

Most Read

  • Google's Flutter logo Google paints its ambient computing vision for Flutter
  • MIT IBM ObjectNet MIT and IBM's ObjectNet shows that AI struggles at object detection in the real world
  • DeepMind logo DeepMind's Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
  • Google Chrome Logo Chrome 79 arrives with password warnings, real-time phishing protection, and WebXR Device API
  • Microsoft Teams logo Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux

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