SILICON VALLEY: Google and Samsung said they were teaming up on a joint software platform for smartwatches and other wearables in a move ramping up competition with market leader Apple. The move, announced at the Google developer conference in California, means Samsung will use Google’s Wear OS for its upcoming Galaxy smartwatches instead of its own Tizen platform. “We’re bringing the best of Wear and Tizen into a single, unified platform,” said Bjorn Kilburn, Google Wear project director. At the event, Google unveiled a series of updates and upgrades to its services including maps, search, shopping and photos, while giving a preview of its ongoing research projects. Google offered a glimpse of its planned AI search tool, which aims to deploy more complex tasks across multiple languages.

Source: Manila Times May 19, 2021 07:52 UTC