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May 18, 2016 16:10 GMT  ·  By

Google I/O is the name of Google's annual developer conference, where the company has usually announced most of its products, achievements, and future plans.

This year, the conference takes place between May 18 and May 20, and Google has published a schedule of what its employees will be talking about this year.

As always, there's a heavy dose of Android news, but also expect news in the realm of IoT, where the company has been very active these past years, and also its Web services, which the company is not giving up after it started to expand its domain of activity into other fields.

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As for exactly what you can expect from this year's conference, the big certainty is more news about Google's upcoming Android N distribution. Google devs have always presented news about their upcoming Android iteration, and this year won't be an exception.

Android VR (Virtual Reality) is also a hot topic on tech blogs these days, and many predict Google expanding more into the realm of VR, right on Facebook's heels.

Just like AI (Artificial Intelligence) took center-stage at Facebook's F8 conference, expect the same to happen at Google's show. After the display of power AlphaGo put on last month when it defeated the world's Go champion in a 4-1 bout, Google's AI announcements should be interesting.

Last but not least, we're probably going to hear more news about Project Tango, Google and Lenovo's joint smartphone project.

As a personal favorite, we'd like to hear more news about the integration between Chromium OS and Android, announced towards the end of last year.

We’ll be live-blogging the event here and detailing the key announcements in dedicated articles, so keep an eye on Softpedia today to find out the latest from Google's I/O 2016 conference The Google I/O 2016 conference stream is available here.

Google's CEO ended the conference with a speech about AI and machine learning's possibilities. That's it folks. See you next year!

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Sundar Pichai is back on stage, announces more machine learning news. Google TPUs (Tensor Flow Processing Units) is what powered the AlphaGo AI system.

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Apps are split into modules, and Google Play only downloads what's needed for content to display. The demos look super cool, and the best feature is that the demos ran on a phone running Android KitKat. Android Instant Apps coming later this year.

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Ellie says Android Instant Apps works by letting Google Play download only the parts of an Android app the user needs for a single task.

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Google's Ellie Powers announces the new "Android Instant Aps," an Android N feature that lets users use Android apps without installing them.

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Some more Firebase features. Over 30 sessions are scheduled for presenting the new Firebase features. This looks like a future core Google product. Firebase is available today.

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Firebase Analytics for apps is what Google Analytics is for the Web. Google says it works for Android and iOS, and is completely free.

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Firebase is now a suite of integrated products.

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Stefphanie is now detailing new features in Android Studio 2.2. Best features: Android Studio writes your test code for you. #saywhat!?! Android Studio now has better C++ support. Android Studio 2.2 is available for download today.

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Jason Titus, Lead of the Developer Product Group at Google, is on stage. Titus is talking about the latest features and products Google launched to improve Web performance, like Accelerated Mobile Pages.

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Google announces Android Wear 2.0. Developers can download a preview of Android Wear 2.0 right now.

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Google: "We've rebuilt YouTube from the ground up for VR."

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Google created a Google Play Store for VR apps, accessible from the VR environment itself. Game and film companies are in, will be providing content such as movies, TV shows and VR games.

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Clay announces a custom VR headset and a controller. Google is going after Oculus Rift. Coming this fall.

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Clay reveals VR mode in Android N for interacting with Daydream. "There will be a lot of Daydream-ready phones," says Clay.

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Clay announces Google Daydream, a VR platform.

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Clay Bavor from Google's VR department is here.

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Android N is launching this summer, but a beta is available right now.

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Google now previews some new touch interactions and shortcuts in Android N. Picture-in-picture, notifications with direct reply, more emojis, and other tiny UX improvements.

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Google announces SafetyNet, a security system that watches apps on all Android devices and uninstalls bad-behaving applications.

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More security features for Android N. File-based encryption, better security for handling multimedia files (cough Stagefright cough) and automatic background OS updates.

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These numbers say it all. The new Android N JIT compiler improves the OS' speed.

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Android N comes with Vulkan integration, a powerful 3D graphics engine.

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Google is asking everyone to help it name Google N.

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Android N everybody! Details are coming.

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Dave Burke from the Android project is on stage.

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Both Allo and Duo will be available this summer on Android and iOS.

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Google announces Duo, a video calling app that comes with a video calling feature with end-to-end encryption that works even on slow connections. Duo also has a knock-knock feature that shows video before accepting the call.

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Allo has an Incognito Mode with end-to-end encryption, private notifications, expiring chats, and messages that get deleted for good.

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Apparently Allo's Google Assistant can play games using emojis. But Google still wants developers to create games for its new Allo chat app and its AI virtual assistant.

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The Google Assistant is like the recently announced "Bots for Messenger," Facebook's AI-powered chat bot. Basically you talk to a computer and he provides suggestions until the AI gets it right.

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Becca is now demoing the Google Assistant in the newly-announced Allo app.

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Allo uses machine learning and suggests replies. The more you use Allo, the better the suggestions become (called "smart reply" at Google).

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Eric is demoing the new Allo app and the new whisper-shout feature.

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Eric Kay is on stage, and he announced a new mesaging app called Allo.

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A closer look at Google Home. The product will be available later this year.

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Mario says that Google Home is different from other IoT home management systems because it's integrated with Google Search and the newly-announced Google Assistant.

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Google Home can help you listen to music, control lights, switches, other Nest devices. Google Home can also set alarms and manage to-do lists. All with your voice.

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Mario is holding a Google Home device in his hand.

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Mario announced Google Home, an AI-powered Chromecast device for intearcting with your house.

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Mario from the Chromecast team is on the stage.

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Google's CEO is demoing the company's new Assistant service.

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Pichai announces Google Assistant, an AI-powered virtual assistant leveraging the company's powerful voice-based search system.

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Pichai reveals that half of Google searches come from mobile phones, a fifth of searches in the US are voice-based.

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Sundar Pichai, Google CEO is on the stage. Here we go!

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Keynote is about to start. Artists are leaving the stage.

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I/O is being hosted at the outdoor Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California this year.

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