Google Pixel phones, Daydream View and Chromecast Ultra: Everything Google just announced

It feels like forever since the first rumors about Google's announcements for this event started cropping up, but now we can finally lay at least some of them to rest.


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The event opened with a cute video by the characters of HBO's "Silicon Valley." "Why wasn't I on the beta?!" That was followed by a summary by Sundar Pichai of computing since the first PC. "We're moving from a mobile first to an AI first" world." That means Google Assistant, announced at the Google I/O conference in May, with its voice queries, contextually relevant information and so on -- much like the most current version of Apple's Siri.

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Uber challenged on diversity by Jesse Jackson

A long list of big-name tech companies have released statistics on the racial and gender makeup of their workforces, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft.


Uber isn't on that list. And on Thursday, civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson wrote a letter to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick pushing the ride-hailing company to make its diversity figures public.

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Google wants to help you buy a BMW

A new app from BMW and Google lets you digitally customize a car.
Photo by Rainer Häckl, courtesy of Google
You could probably call it tech for the 1 percent: Google and BMW are teaming up to make it easier to shop for that new Beemer you've had your eye on.

The two companies unveiled on Wednesday a new app that helps you digitally customize and virtually walk around a new BMW, so you can feel out the customizations before you buy. The companies unveiled the app during the annual CES tech trade show in Las Vegas.
 
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