One of Google’s headline features for its Phone app on Pixel devices is its Call-Screen feature, which is apparently going to get improved with the ability to automatically delete transcripts. Along with this feature, Google is also testing another small feature – Caller ID announcement.
When Epic Games started a legal fight with Apple over the latter’s app store policies and high fee on app-store purchases, Epic Games also filed a lawsuit against Google on similar grounds. While Apple is fighting back against the lawsuit aggressively, Google is looking to make changes in their policies to make themselves appear less anti-competitive, announcing that they will be making it easier for users to select an alternative app store on Android 12.
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Due to the pandemic, we have all seen a massive shift towards many people working from home. One issue that came up is the less than ideal environments that working people have at homes to take video calls. Google came out with a solution for their Meet video-conferencing app which is a background noise filter that is now available on their Android and iOS app.
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Google Maps is supposedly testing a new UI change within the app, bringing a dedicated Car Mode interface that would replace the existing in-car navigation UI. The new UI incorporates elements from Android Auto’s current Google Maps app like its buttons and home screen.
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In June, Twitter released a new feature in its feed called Voice Tweets, that allowed users to share their thoughts via a audio message. Now, Twitter is expanding on it and has begun testing a new feature where users can send voice messages in Twitter DMs
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Opera for Android and Opera for desktop are getting new updates that bring a quite a few new user experiences. These include the newly redesigned Sync feature, along with the Flow feature and Suggested Sites feature for the Opera Android version and a Easy Files feature for Opera desktop version.
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WhatsApp has released a new beta app version 2.20.201.1 for Android that contains a new feature they are testing – Expiring Media. The feature is said to work similar in ways to Snapchat and disappearing media in Telegram where received media will disappear after the user leaves the chat.
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Google has announced a new partnership with VISA that will enable direct card payments on the app via a Tap-to-pay feature, with support on AXIS bank and SBI cards at launch. The feature will use the tokenization method to authenticate payments made by users at NFC-enabled POS terminals and online merchants.
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WhatsApp is testing a new feature in its beta channel on Android that will enable biometric authentication when creating a new session of the Whatsapp Web client. This will help improve overall account security for users who work with multiple web clients during the day.
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The Dream11 Indian Premiere League (IPL) 2020 is on track to kick start tomorrow in the UAE, which means that this season’s television viewership and Disney+ Hotstar viewership will be through the roof. Aimed at bring a better social experience to their viewers and IPL fans, Disney+ Hotstar is improving on their Watch’N Play social feed with new features, namely “Hotshot” and “Duet”.
Paytm, one of India’s most popular digital payment solutions, has just had its Android app removed from the Google Play Store for repeated policy violations. The move came after Paytm promoted a fantasy sports service, which is basically a sports betting and gambling arena; an app feature that Google specifically prohibits on its Play Store.
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Facebook’s Oculus has unveiled its next generation all-in-one VR headset, the Oculus Quest 2 for a price of $299. The headset is the successor to Oculus Quest, that was launched back in 2018, now with an updated, redesigned all-in-one form factor, new Touch controllers and their highest display resolution till date.
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During these pandemic times, many of us have turned online for getting our information from news agencies and government organisations. Aimed at helping people who are deaf or hard of hearing, Facebook is now introducing automatic closed captions to Facebook Live and Workplace Live.
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During their Time Flies event today, Apple announced a new app to compliment the Apple Watch called the Fitness+ app. It can integrate with metrics from the Apple Watch and provide users with personalized workout experience on their iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV.
Short-form video consumption has sky rocketed in the last few months with apps like TikTok and Instagram Reels being extremely popular. Now, YouTube wants a piece of that pie as they have introduced their own 15- second video experience on their platform called YouTube Shorts.
