At its annual conference for software developers on Thursday, Google announced so much new stuff that tech reporters in the audience were begging for a pee break. Much of it was either “meh” or “me-too”—Google versions of products that rivals like Apple already offer. But things took a turn for the interesting at about the halfway mark, when Google veered from smartwatches and mobile payments into the sorts of things Google does best: creepy-smart A.I., massive free cloud storage, random experiments in virtual reality, and the like.
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