Gadgetory

it's time to break down new google goodies I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet uptick Google made a ton of announcements during the keynote address of its annual IO Developers Conference among the highlights Google is entering the streaming music business with the launch of Google Play all access for ten dollars a month subscribers can stream any song in Google's library and also that you blend that with your personal music library google also gives recommendations and curate stations to help you discover new artists it's available now in the US with a free 30-day trial and those that try it by june thirtieth get it for a discounted price of eight dollars a month google is taking on services like Spotify and Pandora and it also beat Apple to the punch on this one it's been rumored that Apple has been trying to launch its own version of a subscription music service which could come this year switching to android games will be able to support multiplayer mode so you can invite other players and not just other Android players but also people using Apple mobile devices and you can compare your score with other users in a leaderboard users will also be able to start a game on one device like a phone save it and then pick it back up later on another device like a tablet google plus social network also gets a major overhaul its rolling out now the design is different with multiple columns of cards for every post and these cards flip around for more info if you want to dive deeper into a topic Google can show you related hashtags to that post in some cases Google system is smart enough to know what you're taking a photo of and tag it for you if a user doesn't write the words Eiffel Tower it still knows it's a picture of the Eiffel Tower and gives it a hashtag you can turn these things off or if it gets the hashtag wrong you can remove the tag Google wants to do the work for you even help you sort through what the best photos were from your family vacation by weeding out the blurry images duplicate shots and those with bad exposure and it also recognizes when people are smiling and if these people are important to you pretty amazing how smart the algorithm is but it also might weird you out with how smart it is Google Plus will also auto enhance your photos to soften skin flaws reduce noise or improve the lighting and search is also improving you can search with google now on the chrome browser and Chrome operating system and the voice search can understand when you use pronouns such as here or it'd be on the lookout for Google Maps getting improvements both on the desktop and eventually on mobile apps and googled in and give us details on a new tablet but it is selling a samsung galaxy s4 that runs pure Android jellybean you can find it on Google Play unlocked for six hundred and fifty dollars available jun 26th that's your tech news update and you can find more coverage of google i/o at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey