Last year Google's developer conference was cancelled. Google I/O was back this year with several new announcements. Here are the things that cau

Google I/O made six announcements.

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Last year Google's developer conference was cancelled. Google I/O was back this year with several new announcements. Here are the things that caught our eye.

"For people of colour, photography has not always seen us as we want to be seen, even in some of our own Google products" said Google's Sameer Samat.

The company was described as "institutionally racist" by influential AI academic Timnit Gebru. She says she was dismissed by the company after a paper she had written about discrimination in AI in December. More details here.

A big complaint from users of Apple's or Facebook's feature is when people are reminded of breakups or tough times in their lives.

Google says they have taken this into consideration and will allow users to control which photos they do or don't see by letting them remove specific images, people or time periods.

Another feature they're introducing is called "little patterns". It will use AI to scan pictures and create albums based on similarities within them - for example, the same jumper, the same couch or similar cups of coffee.

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