Getting good lighting conditions when participating in a video call is not always easy for everyone, especially with natural light. To help with this, Google is introducing a default low-light mode to its Meet app for iOS and Android, a feature that’s already found in Google Duo on mobile devices.
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The Samsung Galaxy Buds+ had a lot of improvements over its predecessor like multiple device pairing and automatic Ambient sound. Samsung has announced that it will be bringing these features to the older Samsung Galaxy Buds and even add a feature to quickly start listening to music on Spotify.
During its 2019 October hardware launch event, Google announced their first truly wireless earphones called the Pixel Buds. However, they also announced that the product would only go on sale next year, in the summer of 2020. It looks like we are finally nearing the launch of the Pixel Buds as the Pixel Buds app is available for download for all in the Google Play Store.
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It is Microsoft’s turn now to release their COVID-19 tracker, which has been integrated via its search engine, Bing. The Bing COVID-19 tracker has a few new features that will be helpful for Indian users like an Apollo Hospitals bot for self-assessment and a hub for telemedicine support from reputed healthcare organizations.
Telegram, an instant messaging service, has announced that they have crossed 400 million active users, growing from the 300 million they had last year. They released an update too, that brought small improvements to quizzes, a sticker directory, a new attachment menu for android devices and more. They even announced a competition for Creators of Educational Tests with a prize pool of €400K.
It has become a reflex action for many of us to just search Google for something we need to find online, and more often than not Search will deliver. However there are those few times when our search term is not the best path to getting the answer or there may not be an answer at all. To help in these situations, Google has updated Search to show a message to let the user know.
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The Google Assistant has been steadily improving voice recognition capabilities over the years. They introduced voice training when setting up the Google Assistant and now they have improved the training by including longer phrases to be said by the user. Along with this, Google is also adding a toggle to the voice assistants settings to control the sensitivity of triggering the assistant via voice.
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It is not very often we see Apple bringing its software services to non-Apple hardware. Apple announced in 2019 that they would be bringing native AirPlay 2 support on select LG and Samsung TVs and now, Samsung has announced that select models of their Smart TV models will be receiving support for the Apple Music app.
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Update: April 24, 2020 – Apple has released an official statement regarding the issue in Mail and said that it has not found any evidence that they were used against customers. This will be fixed in software update soon. Continue reading “Cybersecurity researchers spot two zero-day iOS exploits, security patch with fix coming soon [Update: Apple Statement]”
Facebook has announced that they are expanding their Messenger Kids app to 70 more countries, including India and adding more options for parents to control their kid’s online presence. Some of these features include Supervised Friending, more robust Group management and profile visibility for Friend suggestions.
G Suite users are getting a bunch of handy little updates to Meet to enhance their experience. Users can now share high-quality video with audio content by present a tab from within the Chrome browser. Along with this, Google is adding the ability to view up to 16 people at once in the tile view format that can help improve the experience in classrooms, large group meetings, etc.
Samsung had announced a deeper partnership with Google during its Samsung Unpacked event in February 2020. As part of this partnership, Samsung would have better integration with some of Google’s services and today they announced that a Flex-optimised version of the YouTube app will be available for the Galaxy Z Flip.
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Epic Games, the developers of the popular Battle Royale game, Fortnite has finally relented and decided to make the game available for download via the Google Play Store. Epic Games had previously refused to release the game via the Play Store due to the high 30% cut that Google keeps for all in-app purchases.
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In times of the lockdown and home quarantine, the importance of staying fit has risen. To help this situation, Samsung has partnered with 6 leading fitness brands – barre3, Calm, Echelon, Fitplan, Jillian Michaels Fitness and obé Fitness, to release their fitness and wellness apps for the Samsung Smart TV platform.
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Apple’s problems from the COVID-19 pandemic are far from over as Ming-Chi Kuo revealed new information in an investors’ note. According to him, iPhone 12’s development continues to be impacted and while the iPhone SE pre-orders exceeded market expectations, it could negatively impact the iPhone 11’s sales.
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