Google Starts Its I/O Conference With Updates to Assistant and Privacy
- Private browsing will be available in YouTube and Maps
- Google focused on advances in AI speech, translation tech
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Google kicked off its biggest developer event of the year with a heavy emphasis on its artificial-intelligence based assistant and new privacy-focused features.
People will soon be able to search Google Maps and YouTube in private "incognito" mode, a feature that has been available on the company’s Chrome browser for years. Google will also put privacy controls on the first page of settings menus in its apps, executives said Tuesday at the I/O conference in Mountain View, California. Users of Android mobile software will be able to authenticate a login to a Google account by tapping a button on their phones.