Google’s annual Made by Google {hardware} occasion was held earlier Tuesday, and since the corporate introduced a lot stuff, rather a lot 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 set up data in screenshots.
Name Notes summarizes your conversations
For brief-term-memory-challenged of us like this author, Name Notes may very well be a helpful function.
Obtainable on the Pixel 9 household of units, Name Notes saves a abstract of your dialog following a name. The small print — and a transcript — are saved to your telephone’s name log.
Now if that feels like a possible privateness nightmare, you’re not incorrect. Google says that Name Notes runs absolutely on-device and notifies all folks 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 Professional Fold, is an image-generating app powered each by an on-device generative AI mannequin and Google’s Imagen 3 mannequin working within the cloud. Pixel Studio helps 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 gentle web connection to make use of, regardless of the on-device element — could be shared with contacts through Google Messages.
Google PR advised my colleague Ivan Mehta that Pixel Studio can’t generate human faces but, presumably due to Gemini’s unlucky slip-ups earlier this yr. However the spokesperson didn’t say whether or not there have been another safeguards to stop the app from producing doubtlessly dangerous pictures.
Pixel Screenshots are searchable
When you’re like me, you screenshot issues liberally — tickets, QR codes, boarding passes and what have you ever — for straightforward 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, folks and objects. Google Images already did this — however Pixel Screenshots works regionally.
Google offers this colourful instance: “Let’s say your friend, who loves squirrels, has a birthday coming up. You may browse Google Chrome for a gift for them, screenshotting squirrel shirts, squirrel coasters and everything else squirrel-related you think they might like. Pixel Screenshots will analyze the content of all those images and make the information searchable for you in the app. So all you’ll need to do is open the app and search for ‘squirrel,’ and these results will pop up. Even better, it will include links to where you found everything and a summary of what you’re looking at with relevant information.”
Pixel Screenshots will even helpfully seek for issues like door codes and addresses throughout photographs.
