Google IO 2022 was incredibly busy, but we want to make sure these 7 announcements didn’t slip through the cracks.
We’re surprised to be saying this, but Google IO 2022 was absolutely manic – Google was launching new software tools and products left, right and center, like a kid who’s had too much cola and got their hands on a nerf gun. If you paid attention, you probably caught all the big announcements: these include Android 13, the Google Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro, Pixel 6a and Pixel 7, and of course the Google Glasses. But there was actually so much more that Google threw into the event, and we don’t blame you if you missed a few of them. To fill you in on some of the Google IO announcements that you may have missed, we’ve written this guide to some of our favorites. One of Google’s first announcements was that its skin tone research is helping to make more inclusive AI. It’s doing this by making an open-source development tool to help AI more accurately detect different skin tones, which is something AI currently struggles with. When developers start using this tool, it should be just as useful for AI photo processing tools to accurately edit snaps as it is for search results to provide a better range of search results (instead of just a wall of white people). Announced not at the keynote conference, but just to developers, is something called Health Connect, which could be incredibly useful for fitness fans. Basically, this is a way for various disparate health apps (like diet, wearable, workout tracking, and peripheral ones) to all share the same data – this means you don’t need to jump between a hundred different apps to track your health.
