Google’s annual Made by Google hardware event was held earlier Tuesday, and since the corporate introduced a lot stuff, so much received misplaced within the shuffle. We rounded up a number of the extra intriguing AI-related bulletins that didn’t get a ton of play, just like the image-generating Pixel Studio and Pixel Screenshots, which helps save and arrange data in screenshots.
Name Notes summarizes your conversations
For brief-term-memory-challenged people like this author, Name Notes could possibly be a helpful function.
Out there on the Pixel 9 family of devices, Name Notes saves a abstract of your dialog following a name. The small print — and a transcript — are saved to your cellphone’s name log.
Now if that feels like a possible privateness nightmare, you’re not incorrect. Google says that Name Notes runs totally on-device and notifies all individuals on the decision when recording is in progress — however we’ll should let the safety specialists weigh in.
Pixel Studio is a brand new image-generating app
Pixel Studio, unique to the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, is an image-generating app powered each by an on-device generative AI mannequin and Google’s Imagen 3 mannequin operating within the cloud. Pixel Studio allows you to enter prompts to generate no matter creatively strikes you, and add stickers and make edits and adjustments after the actual fact.
Creations from Pixel Studio — which requires a gradual web connection to make use of, regardless of the on-device element — could be shared with contacts by way of Google Messages.
Google PR informed my colleague Ivan Mehta that Pixel Studio can’t generate human faces yet, presumably due to Gemini’s unlucky slip-ups earlier this year. However the spokesperson didn’t say whether or not there have been some other safeguards to forestall the app from producing probably dangerous photographs.
Pixel Screenshots are searchable
In case you’re like me, you screenshot issues liberally — tickets, QR codes, boarding passes and what have you ever — for simple entry later. However screenshots aren’t precisely search-friendly. And that makes them an actual ache within the rear finish if you’re looking for one thing particular.
Happily for soon-to-be Pixel 9 homeowners, there’s Pixel Screenshots, a brand new app that makes use of AI to investigate the content material of screenshots, together with any captured textual content, individuals and objects. Google Photographs already did this — however Pixel Screenshots works domestically.
Google offers this colourful instance: “Let’s say your buddy, who loves squirrels, has a birthday developing. It’s possible you’ll browse Google Chrome for a present for them, screenshotting squirrel shirts, squirrel coasters and every part else squirrel-related you suppose they could like. Pixel Screenshots will analyze the content material of all these photographs and make the knowledge searchable for you within the app. So all you’ll must do is open the app and seek for ‘squirrel,’ and these outcomes will pop up. Even higher, it’s going to embrace hyperlinks to the place you discovered every part and a abstract of what you’re taking a look at with related data.”
Pixel Screenshots will even helpfully seek for issues like door codes and addresses throughout images.
