Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Google has now taken up the role of CEO of Google’s parent company — Alphabet. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were the previous CEO and President respectively at Alphabet, will be stepping down but will remain in the board of directors.
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Google has announced the list of the best games and apps for Android smartphones on Google Play during 2019. The best app of the year in India goes to Ablo: Talk to new people & explore the world and the best and fan favourite game of the year goes to Call of Duty: Mobile. Best fan favourite app goes to Spotify: Listen to new music, podcasts, and songs.
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Google has started rolling out new over-the-air (OTA) update for Pixel devices and also posted factory images as part of monthly Android Security release for December. Pixel and Pixel XL get the final patch, as it had promised. Google is also adding Live Captions (for Pixel 3 and later), Styles & Wallpaper (Pixel 3 and Later) Pixel themes, Swipe-down gesture for notifications and Gesture navigation in third-party launchers (Pixel 2 and later), as noted by Android Police. Continue reading “Google Pixel phones get December 2019 security update, brings Live Captions, Gesture navigation in third-party launchers and more to older Pixels”
Google has yet again fallen into the scrutiny of the European Union (EU) for its collection of data. The EU antitrust regulators, despite having fined the search engine giant billions of dollars is now seeking an investigation into how and why Google is collecting data.
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Astrophotography on the Pixel 4 was announced as one of the highlight features during its launch event. The sample photos shown by Google were impressive and once the phone released, social media starting filling up with incredible photos people clicked with their Pixel 4. In this article we explain how Google produces beautiful starry photos of the night sky with just a smartphone camera.
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Google has introduced new integrations for the Google Shopping experience for Indian users, namely Google My Business and Google Translate integration. These changes are aimed at making Google Shopping more accessible for new small to medium businesses and non English speaking Indian users.
Google has launched the Nest Mini, successor to Google Home Mini in India, after it was introduced at the Pixel event last month. It has been completely re-engineered with Google Assistant to make everything users love about the original, even better, said the company. Continue reading “Google Nest Mini launched in India for Rs. 4499”
Recently, Google rolled out Dynamic email in Gmail for G-suite customers on the web initially and later made it available for all users on the web. Following that, Dynamic email is now available for Android and iOS users as well.
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After lots of speculations and teasing, Google is finally bringing Duplex artificial intelligence guidance to users booking movie tickets online through Assistant in the US and UK. This new feature is built on existing Duplex technology that can book restaurant reservations over the phone. Continue reading “Google officially rolls out Duplex-powered assistant to book movie tickets on Android”
Google is making its Earth app more fun and useful than ever now! In the latest development, Google is now turning Earth into its storytelling canvas and create a map or story about the places that matter to you. Continue reading “Google Earth gets new creation tool that lets anyone create maps and stories”
Google Photos for Android got an advanced video editor with an update last year and the company has been introducing new features like the ability to search text in pictures, Express backup, dark mode, etc. Now, Google is bringing the video editing feature to its web interface with a new timeline editor for movies.
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Google announced its cloud gaming platform – Stadia earlier this year and also revealed the price ahead of launch today. Now, Google has launched the Stadia cloud gaming platform officially and offers gamers a total of 22 titles now.
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YouTube launched its YouTube Music Premium streaming service along with YouTube Premium service earlier this year starting at Rs. 99/month and Rs. 129/month respectively with billing recurring monthly. Today, YouTube has introduced new non-recurring prepaid plans for India where users can pay upfront for the subscription and top up anytime.
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Google has been testing integrating Rich Communication Services (RCS) in Android Messages for a few users in the USA for quite a while. Now Google has decided to broadly roll out RCS for all Android users through the Android Messages app. Users in the US will be able to enable RCS Chat features over the coming weeks.
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In the past, Googles AI experiments online have always been interesting, fun activities for users to try out, combining AI with things like drawing or singing. Now YouTube, Google Creative Lab, and Google Research, working in partnership with Queen, Universal Music Group and Hollywood Records, have built a new AI experiment called FreddieMeter that will show users how close are they to singing like Freddie Mercury.
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