In contrast to its predecessors, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 no longer uses Samsung’s own Tizen operating system, but Google’s Wear OS. The users’ wish to be able to use the Google Assistant on the smartwatch was correspondingly high. That wish came true this week. All this and more in this issue of GIGA Insights.
Version:1.0
Languages:German
release:05/01/2016
Platforms:Android
The topics of the week at a glance:
Galaxy Watch: Bye bye Bixby
With the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 with Google’s Wear OS 3.0, there was a desire for a special function: the Google Assistant on the Galaxy Watch. That’s exactly what was released this week. In this episode of GIGA Insights, Robert shares his first experiences with the Google Assistant on his wrist.
New Motorola with mega camera
Motorola, which now belongs to Lenovo, wants to counter the competition with a special mobile phone camera. As announced, the new flagship with a 200-megapixel camera will be presented in July.
But: megapixels are by no means everything, the size of the sensor and the quality of the camera software also have a strong influence on the fact that the shots taken turn out to be a decent photo. So we won’t find out how the camera will fare until the summer.
You can find out in this episode of TECHfacts why not only megapixels are important:
Online casinos are asked to pay
The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court has ruled that online casino users can now sue for their losses because the casinos can be classified as illegal until mid-2021. But they probably won’t do it entirely voluntarily. If you want to get your lost money, you should hire a lawyer.
Google AI generates cute animal pictures
Google’s AI researchers have introduced “Imagen”, a new system that can create photorealistic images based on text input.
The system is demonstrated using a series of AI-generated animal photos: a raccoon in an astronaut suit, a Shiba Inu on a mountain bike, a corgi in a house made of sushi.
The AI is not publicly available, but the demo images are absolutely worth seeing.