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Google I/O is, far and away, Google's most important single event of the year, where CEO Sundar Pichai presents his grand vision for the company in the year to come. So it was a little baffling, at first blush, that Google - a search company, which makes its money from search   advertising   - would spend so much time talking about   Google Photos   , its photo-sharing service, and camera-related apps in general. At the same time, it makes perfect sense, in its own way. It's the same old Google, adapted for a world where cameras rule over keyboards. Way back in 2009, it launched an   app called Google Goggles   that let you snap a picture of, say, a book, and search for it online. On Wednesday the company brought the idea back with   Google Lens   , an evolved version of the concept. Google Lens will make its debut as a feature in Google Photos within the next few months, and come to the Google Assistant digital assistant by the end of t...

Not even two days into spring and Google is already jettisoning developer previews for the next major version of its Android operating system. As you likely already know, Android O is here as a developer preview, allowing all Nexus and Pixel users to commit the ultimate rite of passage by using this one as a daily driver... if they dare! Always curious to give shiny new things a spin, we flashed the developer preview on our trusty and battle-hardened Nexus 6P. One thing led to another, and here you are reading this, hmm, "preview" of Android O's developer preview. All the changes you will spot at first sight are definitely on the evolutionary side of the spectrum and not on the revolutionary, and that's great, though we can easily see why some might deem the preview of Android O a bit boring. That's okay - it's merely expected to lay the foundations on which Google will be building on. It's almost a given that the upcoming developer previews will i...