The Morning After: The Most Intriguing Ai Features Inside The Pixel 10

After each nan caller Pixel 10 phones — expect to perceive our reappraisal verdicts soon — we had clip to return a person look astatine nan AI-centric package features Google often excels at. These see advances successful Voice Translate, which tin create a synthetic type of your sound speaking German. Or French. Or Japanese.

There’s besides Pro Res Zoom (Pixel 10 Pro devices only), which cranks zoom up to 100x, pinch AI guideline rails to debar twisted quality faces and garbled text. In short, less AI hallucinations but improved item and crispness. There’s besides nan Camera Coach, but I’m already a beautiful bully photographer. Brag. Managing Editor Cherlynn Low explains which features caught her attention astatine nan Made By Google event.

Also: Add Me is still incredible, arsenic designated group photographer.

— Mat Smith

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Grants person that to a 9.9 percent liking successful nan company.

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Google’s leaked smart location hardware looks familiar

Leaked images propose a Pixel 10 attack to its Nest lineup.

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Elon Musk and xAI are suing Apple and OpenAI because Grok isn’t topping nan app charts

The suit says nan companies person ‘locked up markets to support their monopolies.’

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