We all knew Google was going to announce its new Google Music service today because it leaked the newslast night. The service has nowgone liveand is available for US users only to request and invitation. Here’s what Google has to say about how Music will work. Music Manager is a program for Windows and Mac that will add users music. You can import iTunes ratings, music and playlists into it. The interface looks minimal and relatively attractive....

A small splash page website has gone up atPhotovine.com, a domain and trademarkowned by Google. The frontpage says that “Photovine is a fun way to learn more about your friends, meet new people, and share your world like never before.” It looks like a social photo sharing app. We’re somewhat surprised to see Google building social services under a different brand name to Google+ after launching the social network in late June, but we’re sure there will be heavy integration....

Google hasunveiled a creepily human-like language model called LaMDA that CEO Sundar Pichai says“can converse on any topic.” During a demo at Google I/O 2021 on Wednesday, Pichai showcased how LaMDA can enable new ways of conversing with data, like chatting to Pluto about life in outer space or asking a paper airplane about its worst travel experiences. Pichai said LaMDA generates a natural conversation style by synthesizing concepts — like the Horizon spacecraft and the coldness of the cosmos — from its training data, rather than hand-programming them in the model....

Google announced a new AI model for multimodal search calledMUM (Multitask Unified Model)at its developer conference Google IO in May. Last night, the firm announced a bunch of consumer-facing features, including visual search, that’ll be coming to your screen in the coming months. The Big G currently serves contextual information such as Wikipedia snippets, lyrics, or recipe videos to you based on your search phrase. Now, for the next step of the search, it aims to get you results by understanding context beyond just the phrase you’ve used....

It’s 2021 and the coronavirus pandemic is still looming large, so our travel plans to exotic destinations will have to wait. But thankfully, we can travel virtually through magical AR portals. Google’s new experiment called Floom creates vortexes in your room that’lllet you see what’s on the other side of the globe, literally. Here’s how it works. Head tothe Floom sitein Chromeon your Android device. After approving necessary permissions,point your camera to an empty space on the floor....