Google, in time for the holidays season, has announced that users can make charitable donations to inspiring nonprofits from the Google Play Store. If you’re in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, and Indonesia, you’ll see this update over the next few days. Continue reading “Android users can now donate to charity through Google Play Store”
Following the trend, it set, Google is back with ‘Year in Search’ for 2018. The quick recap highlights all the user’s interests based on the searches made by the users in India on Google and also covers the major events happened in the last 12-month period. Continue reading “Google Year in Search 2018: FIFA World cup 2018, Robot 2.0, Kiki Challenge top trending in India”
Google, until now allowed free photo and videos to be uploaded to Photos services as long as they are compressed. However, the company is changing it now, as of December 6th, videos in unsupported formats are no longer included in the free storage. Continue reading “Google Photos no longer offers unlimited storage for unsupported videos”
Google Lens visual search feature is finally rolling out to the Google app for iOS. Google Lens for iOS landed through Google Photos app. The new visual implementation in the Google app features a live viewfinder instead of adding a photo from camera rolls or snap a picture. Continue reading “Google app for iOS finally gets Google Lens visual search”
Google in November discovered a bug affecting a Google+ API and said that it fixed it within a week of it being introduced. Google says that there was no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way. Continue reading “Google to shutdown Google+ in April 2019 over second data breach”
Google redesigned Fit earlier this year, and now the company is pushing an update with more features right in time for holidays. This new update is aimed at making it easier to achieve your health goals. You can now see your progress at a glance on your Android home screen with new Google Fit widgets. Continue reading “Google Fit update brings improved activity logging, breathing exercise and more”
After rolling it out to Andriod, Google is pushing the ‘For You’ tab to iOS in over 40 countries and 130+ new countries on Android. The For You tab is designed to be a constant source that is tailored to your tastes and preferences. Simply follow neighborhoods or places you’re interested in to get updates and recommendations. Continue reading “Google Maps ‘For You’ tab comes to iOS, expands to over 130 countries on Android”
Over the past few weeks, the rumor mill is full of Google Pixel 3 Lite with more details flowing in each day. However, there seems to be a surprise waiting in store. Google is said to be working on a larger version of the Pixel 3 Lite dubbed Pixel 3 Lite XL. The Google Pixel 3 Lite and Lite XL will share similar design aesthetics with the Pixel 3 and 3 XL. Continue reading “Google Pixel 3 Lite and Pixel 3 Lite XL with Snapdragon 670, 3.5mm audio jack renders surface”
Update – December, 10, 2018: A Google developer recently submitted a code change that implements system-level Dark Mode in Chromium. This hints that it might arrive to Chome sometime in Q1 2019 with Chrome 73.
Google is pushing out a new update to the Message app with nothing noteworthy on the surface. But it brings changes to the message attachments. The update also hints details about the upcoming spam protection and support for new file types in the share dialog. Continue reading “Google Messages V3.9 update hints at Spam protection, Sharing support for calendar events and more”
Back in 2017, Google introduced Google Play Install Referrer API
which allows ad attribution providers, publishers, and advertisers to determine which referrer was responsible for sending the user to Google Play for a given app install. Owing to the reports of questionable activity, Google began its own independent investigation on apps on Google Play that are accused of conducting app install attribution abuse by falsely claiming credit for newly installed apps to collect the download bounty from that app’s developer. Continue reading “Google removes two apps from PlayStore over app install attribution abuse”
In its latest attempt to improve Translate, Google aims to curb gender bias by providing feminine and masculine translations for some gender-neutral words on the Google Translate website. Google Translate learns from hundreds of millions of already-translated examples from the web. Continue reading “Google Translate now offers gender specific translations”
Twitter for Android seems to be getting new features including the ability to show which client Tweets originated from, video playback controls including a skip forward or rewind a few seconds with a tap on the right or left side of the screen. However, these new features are currently available only for few users and are not widely available. Continue reading “Twitter for Android gets Tweet client indicator, video playback controls”
Google has finally announced that it is giving up on Allo after it stopped investing in the app earlier this year. The app will become non-functional in March 2019. The company officially announced that it will upgrade users to Hangouts Chat and Meet at some point and they will remain a primary focus for the team. Continue reading “Google confirms it will shutdown Allo messaging app in March 2019, will upgrade Hangout users to Hangouts Chat and Meet”
Google Chrome 71 is rolling out to desktop and Android, it is a minor release which particularly brings changes to the ‘Duet’ interface and autoplay. Part of the Google Chrome button address bar redesign which the company shut down in the last minute turned into ‘Chrome Duplex,’ which is now called ‘Chrome Duet.’ Continue reading “Google Chrome 71 brings Duet UI improvements, auto-play changes, new API’s and more”
