Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, all the news that I could possibly grab from Google's I.O. keynote, again, Alexa is spying on you.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Oh Lord y'all of all of the big tech event days of the year. Google I.O. is the hardest to cover

because it's just so much.

There's hardware, there's software, there's

developer initiatives, there's consumer products and services.

I'm just going to watch this thing and do my best not to miss anything.

And because I'm going to do it in real time, I'm going in roughly chronological order here because they tend to go so

late I might not be able to make 5 p.m. otherwise. Let's go. Today at I.O.

Google Lens is coming to Google Search. Some search results will now include 3D models

for augmented reality views of what you search for. Google Lens, of course, can already be used for object recognition,

language translations, and even shopping,

and it is coming to low-end phones as well.

In essence, the G-Wiz thing that they showed off with the

Google Lens today from the stage was that you can snap a photo of a menu when

you're in a restaurant and Lens can tell you what to order. Also,

duplex that eerily human bot that can make restaurant reservations for you over the

phone that debuted at I.O. last year is now coming to the web. So instead of phone calls you can use

duplex on the web to still make bookings but basically doing it by filling out

the forms that will help you do things like get car rentals and order movie

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