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Google on Wednesday announced its powerful Assistant technology will start rolling out to even more devices, including tablets running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Google Assistant’s wider rollout is great news for Android users, as it brings the technology to many more consumers. Seeing it on tablets is especially exciting since the market of Android tablets hasn’t exactly been on fire. The rollout also applies to phones running Android 5.0 Lollipop, which is still a big contingent of Android’s larger user base. If you’re in the U.S., UK, India, Australia, Canada, or Singapore, you should see Assistant sometime today or in the next few days. Google said Assistant for tablets should be available in the coming weeks to users in the U.S. If you haven’t had the opportunity to use Google’s Assistant, the platform is capable of engaging in two-way conversations, along with setting reminders and integrating with smart home devices.

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...