Five months ago, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai showed off a compelling vision of the future of search. Called Google Lens, all you had to do was aim a smartphone’s camera at a restaurant to see its ...

You no longer have to point your phone at your computer screen if you want to use Google Lens on your computer. As part of a string of updates, Google has revealed that Lens will be available for ...

When Google first announced Google Lens last year, it was described as a kind of search in reverse. Rather than type a text query to find image results, you could point your phone’s camera at an ...

As of today, Google Lens can identify, translate, or otherwise work with Text, Barcodes, Landmarks, Books, and Media. It can also identify popular dog breeds and cat breeds – so you can finally figure ...

Carrying a smartphone with the Google Lens app is now almost like having a scanner in your pocket, thanks to an update that copies text that you see in real life to paste to your computer. The update, ...

Google’s AI-AR platform is going to be everywhere soon, and it works really well now Google’s AI-AR platform is going to be everywhere soon, and it works really well now is a Senior Producer on ...

You probably already use your iPhone or iPad to take photos of anything interesting you come across on a daily basis. Imagine if there was an easy way to access background information on the images in ...

Google Lens turns a smartphone camera into a keyboard, handling tasks from reading text to recognizing objects and landmarks — but those capabilities are expanding beyond Google Pixel Phones with ...

This is one way of dealing with the growing reports of backlash against the “Glassholes” who insist on wearing Google Glass everywhere. Google has a patent for contact lenses that have a built-in ...

Google Lens looks at photos of pets and gives users its best guess at what breeds make up those adorable animals You know the moment: you are walking/driving ...

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Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google is updating its ...