Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Wednesday, May 10th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today I'm writing this this morning before Google's I.

Koeck's I. So I'm assuming this whole episode is going to be the entirety of that event,

but who knows?

Maybe I'll be able to squeeze something non-Goodle in at the end.

Join me in the time machine, won't you, and find out?

In the meantime, here's what Sundar

had to share with us today.

I'm gonna do this a bit differently today instead of just vomiting all the announces in one segment I'm going to try to break them up a bit

thematically to hopefully make it a bit easier to follow but also because this is the whole

show it turns out so I can't really do that other thing you know.

Google kicked off I.O. this morning by announcing some new little AI-powered consumer-facing tools that were fun, for example,

immersive view for routes in Google Maps with traffic simulations, parking, and more, starting in in 15 cities including New York City

London and Paris so if you want to plan out a quick walk or bike ride through the

west side of Manhattan say you can literally zoom through it a la superman to fully simulate

what it will be like seems like another placeholding product that would be

really powerful and useful in some AR or XR future.

And Google Photos got a Magic Editor feature

for more complex edits than Magic Eraser can achieve,

like repositioning the subject of a photo first coming to select

pixel devices. Here's the example they used on stage to give you a sense of how this works.

Picture a kid sitting on a bench holding balloons but the picture

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