Google’s annual Made by Google {hardware} occasion was held earlier Tuesday, and since the corporate introduced a lot stuff, quite a bit acquired misplaced within the shuffle. We rounded up a few 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 manage information in screenshots.
Name Notes summarizes your conversations
For brief-term-memory-challenged people like this author, Name Notes might be a helpful characteristic.
Accessible on the Pixel 9 household of gadgets, Name Notes saves a abstract of your dialog following a name. The main points — and a transcript — are saved to your telephone’s name log.
Now if that seems like a possible privateness nightmare, you’re not mistaken. Google says that Name Notes runs absolutely on-device and notifies all individuals on the decision when recording is in progress — however we’ll need to let the safety consultants 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 operating within the cloud. Pixel Studio helps you to enter prompts to generate no matter creatively strikes you, and add stickers and make edits and modifications after the actual fact.
Creations from Pixel Studio — which requires a gradual web connection to make use of, regardless of the on-device part — might be shared with contacts by way of Google Messages.
Google PR informed 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 some other safeguards to stop the app from producing probably dangerous photos.
Pixel Screenshots are searchable
In the event 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 while you’re looking for one thing particular.
Fortuitously for soon-to-be Pixel 9 house owners, there’s Pixel Screenshots, a brand new app that makes use of AI to research the content material of screenshots, together with any captured textual content, individuals and objects. Google Pictures already did this — however Pixel Screenshots works domestically.
Google offers this colourful instance: “Let’s say your good friend, who loves squirrels, has a birthday developing. Chances are you’ll browse Google Chrome for a present for them, screenshotting squirrel shirts, squirrel coasters and every thing else squirrel-related you suppose they could like. Pixel Screenshots will analyze the content material of all these photos 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’ll embody hyperlinks to the place you discovered every thing and a abstract of what you’re with related data.”
Pixel Screenshots can even helpfully seek for issues like door codes and addresses throughout images.