One of the many useful features in Google Maps is the ability to see reviews and updates about places and businesses on the platform. Maps is now receiving a new update that will make it easier for users to find updates and recommendations from local sources, which should help users discover new places and plan their next destination.
Every year, Google announces the best apps and games from the Android Play Store and the list for 2020 has been announced. This year, the title of the best app of 2020 goes to Sleep stories for calm sleep & meditation by Wysa and the title of the best game of 2020 goes to Legends of Runeterra.
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Ever since Instagram first copied the Stories feature from Snapchat, multiple social networks platforms and apps have released their version of Stories. The latest to join this group is Spotify, who has reportedly begun testing Stories with many major musicians on their Christmas Hits playlist on both iOS and Android.
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YouTube is testing two new features that are aimed at helping creators and video uploaders spend less time when editing their videos. The first feature is an automatic video chapter creator and the second is a simple timestamp button, both of which are being tested right now with a small set of people.
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Recently, the micro-blogging site Twitter has started showing warning who tries to like or retweet a labeled tweet. Twitter began showing a warning before the 2020 US presidential election when users tried to retweet a flagged tweet. Continue reading “Twitter to show a warning when you try to like a labeled tweet”
One of the most popular shows of 2020, Star Wars: The Mandalorian from Disney+ is getting a new AR experience from Google. Made in collaboration with LucasFilm, “The Mandalorian AR Experience” app is available for select 5G films, giving users a way to recreate some iconic moments from the show.
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Snapchat has announced a new feature called Spotlight where creators will be able to create and share video clips to the public. The feature is similar to Instagram’s Reels and TikTok, and Snapchat will pay a share of $1 million every day to the creators who share the most popular clips.
The stock Phone by Google app can be found on the Pixel devices and a few other smartphones as the default dialer app, with Pixel users getting some exclusive features such as Hold for me and Call Screen. The app is rumoured to be getting a rebrand with a new icon and name change to Google Call.
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Google is reportedly beta testing a new app called Task Mate with select Indian users, with the idea of awarding users money for performing certain tasks. These tasks can include recording certain phrases, taking photos of businesses, etc. and the app will reward the user with real Indian rupees, which can be cashed out directly into a bank account.
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Last month Netflix announced that it will offer free access plan for a duration of a weekend for Indian users to boost user sign-ups. Now it has announced StreamFest for an entire weekend (December 5th and 6th) that will offer free access to Netflix content for two days without any subscription. Continue reading “Netflix StreamFest in India on December 5-6: Watch videos for free without subscription, card details”
Google has slowly been rolling out their new chat features in Messages that is based on the open Rich Communication Services (RCS) standard over the past year now. They have finally finished the rollout globally and also has begun beta testing new features in the app such as end-to-end encryption.
With the launch of iOS 14 and iPad OS 14, Apple added support for a feature that existed previously in Android for many years — Widgets in the home screen. While many apps had widgets ready on the day of release, Google only had widgets made for Google Photos and YouTube Music. That is finally changing as Google has now released widgets for Gmail, Drive and Fit.
WhatsApp has recently begun testing new features in their Beta channel for both iOS and Android. These include new advanced chat wallpaper options, a new screen called Read Later which is meant to replace Archived Chats, and the ability to mute videos before sending them.
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Google Pay has released a new update for iOS and Android that brings with it some major changes and features. The app’s interface has been redesigned with better organization of payments, giving users more ways of seeing past transactions, and improved privacy controls.
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The Google Fit app for both Android, iOS and WearOS is receiving a new update that brings a bunch of new changes to the interface and some new features to keep up with the times. The home screen now shows information from connected apps along with new sharing capabilities and WearOS has new workout shortcuts along with updates to the weather screen and breathing exercises.
