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The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have a special processor inside developed by Google for their visual brains specifically. These devices hadn't had this processor activated before this week – now ...

Google has fired up the Pixel Visual Core, activating the custom imaging chip that was the surprise hidden in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. News of the company's very first homegrown picture-processing ...

When Google launched its Pixel 2 flagship smartphone last year, it included something of a surprise: A co-processor called Pixel Visual Core, the company’s first homegrown, consumer-facing piece of ...

Ever noticed your Android phone takes worse photos in social apps like WhatsApp than in the camera app? It’s because they don’t use the same shooting mode and post-processing. And no matter how good a ...

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices out in the wild has a dormant image processor called the Visual Core, and now Google is starting to flip the switch with the Android 8.1 Oreo developer preview.

Sadly, not all of the Pixel 2’s surprises have been the good sort since Google’s latest flagship launched. Visual Core is one of the more pleasant ones, though — a custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) that’s ...

Google might be a monolithic tech company, but in a smartphone market dominated by Apple and Samsung, being a Pixel fan almost feels a little indie. If you’re fully immersed in the Pixel world and ...

The camera on Google’s Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL is amazing. Part of what makes it so good is Google’s HDR+ mode. Thanks to the Pixel Visual Core, that handy trick can be extended to other apps, and now ...

Google didn't spill all the details about the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL at its October 4th event. As it turns out, these phones have a secret weapon: Google's first custom imaging chip (and indeed first ...