Google unveils Android update and AI assistant for iPhone

Google has unveiled a raft of new features for Android including a radical image recognition app giving phones'eyes'. Called Google Lens, it will be able to do everything from recognise flowers in a garden to translate menus in a foreign language. The firm also unveil a new iOS version of its smart assistant for the iPhone, taking on Siri, along with updates to its Home speaker turning it into a hands free phone and a smart reply service for Gmail. CEO Sundar Pichai first revealed over 2 billion people are now using Android, and said the future was about speech and vision. 'We are clearly at an inflection point with vision, so we are announcing Google Lens. 'If you run into something and you want to know what it is, you can point your phone at it,' Pichai said.