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According to the most recent proxy statement from the company, Pichai earned nearly $1.9 million in 2018, which mostly included the costs for his security and personal use of aircraft.

Recorder was earlier exclusive to Pixel 4-series phones. It can be used to live transcribe audio content.

Google Photos' new manual face tagging feature still relies on Google's face detection algorithms, but now users can manually edit or name the tags.

At last month’s big hardware extravaganza, Google finally showed off an update to its three-year-old mesh wifi system that now lives under the company’s Nest smart home brand. Despite a lack of support for the new WiFi 6 standard, Google Nest Wifi includes other hardware and performance upgrades, including access points that double as Nest Mini smart speakers, which means new users to the Google eco-system can get away with buying less hardware.

The Google project, codenamed Cache, comes as rivals Facebook and Apple are expanding their own efforts in consumer finance.