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 ...

Google is able to take such fantastic photos on the Pixel 2 because of a fine-tuned mix of physical hardware (camera lens and sensor), software (enabling HDR+), and machine learning. Even in its ...

Google’s HDR+ mode has been part of Google Camera for a few years, but the Google Pixel 2 refines that program by expanding processing power. HDR is a photo technique that blends multiple images ...

Shortly after the Pixel 2 was released, Google announced that its two new smartphones had a dedicated chip built-in that would be used to handle specialized processes like the camera app’s HDR+ image ...

The Pixel 2 has started rolling out, and it's only a matter of time before it gets torn down. Apparently, that time came almost immediately, as iFixit already got its hands on the Pixel 2 XL and ...

Google announced the release of the custom coprocessor "Pixel Visual Core (Pixel visual core)" designed for Pixel 2. By using computational photography and machine learning, the Pixel visual core ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. As most Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL owners should know, inside your phone is a special image processor, known as ...

Recently enabled for third-party applications, the Pixel Visual Core does not work with the Google Camera app on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. I got a fun correction from Google today: The Google Camera ...

A few months back we reported that Google had put a special co-processing chip inside its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL phones but hadn’t turned it on. Well, Google has now turned on the chip via a new ...