Google I/O 2016: Search giant reveals latest products, including Google Home, Android N and virtual reality technologies – as it happened
Google is going to unveil its plan to take over your house and your phone – and then your reality
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Your support makes all the difference.Google has held its biggest event of the year, showing off everything that it's going to release through 2016. The general public and developers will get their first glimpse at the products and technology that's going to rule our lives – via our phone, home, car, computer and everything else.
Some of what will be announced has already leaked, and others have been spoiled by Google themselves in advance of the event. Those include rumours about a new device for the home and new technology for your phone, as well as Google's update to Android Pay that now allows it to be used in the UK.
But the main event is still set to be packed with surprises, including the first details of Google's own virtual reality headset and new phone technology. We'll be following along with all the developments live.
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Onto Google Photos: "tremendous" adoption with 200 million users. 2 trillion labels been automatically applied to pictures.
Now we're onto communications. Google's going to tell us how it's made it easier to share stuff, it says.
It's going to show off two new communication apps that use Google technology to let people communicate.
The first: a new messaging app called Allo. It's a smart messaging app to let people talk more easily, it says. It's going to bring the knowledge that's in Google to make it easier to talk to people
The first thing about Allo: "whisper shout". People can choose whether to whisper what they're saying or shout it. You can decide how loudly you want to say something, by dragging up and down as you press send. (The crowd are going crazy.)
And now another feature: "Ink". That lets you write on photos to help you express yourself.
It's going to use "smart reply" as in the Inbox app, too. That uses Google's AI to try and guess what you want to say, suggesting replies and anticipating what you might want to say.
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