In a sign of the ongoing strategic importance of Google Assistant, the company's artificial intelligence-driven, voice-controlled digital assistant, Google announced it would make the product available on Apple Inc’s iPhone, making a play for the higher end of the smartphone market and challenging Apple's Siri feature on its own devices. Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., May 17, 2017. ReutersThe Google Assistant debuted last year on the company's own hardware, and Google has gradually extended the tool to devices from other manufacturers running on its Android operating system. "Humans are interacting with computing in more natural and immersive ways," Google CEO Sundar Pichai told the audience. Google, which gets most of its revenue from its dominant search engine, also released a host of new features for Google Home, a speaker released last year.

Source: bd News24 May 17, 2017 23:37 UTC