Google today released 4th annual “Android security year in review,” and announced that its Play Protection technology has successfully taken down over 39 million from Play Store in 2017. Play protect was announced back in May 2017 at the I/O event. Continue reading “Google Play Protect took down over 39 million apps from Play Store in 2017”
A few days ago there were reports about Google renaming Android Wear to Wear OS and today Google has officially announced that it indeed is renaming it to ‘Wear OS by Google.’ However, the company is just renaming with no functional changes, but at least it is an indication that Google is paying attention to the wearable platform. Continue reading “Google officially rebrands Android Wear to Wear OS – List of watches getting updated to Wear OS”
Not so long ago, Google announced that location-based reminders feature is coming to Google Home. And, just like it promised, this feature is now finally rolling out to Google Home devices. Setting up reminders on Home device is easy, and all you got to do is just tell Assistant you want to be reminded of something when you are in a certain place. Continue reading “Google Home will now let you set location-based reminders”
Google with an aim to bring more real-world games like Pokemon Go, is opening up its Maps API for game developers to build their games. For an open-world game, developers first need to understand the physical environment around their players. Continue reading “Google opens up Maps API for game developers, Resonance Audio for AR and VR experiences”
Pixel 2 has one of the best cameras on a smartphone and Google is using its AI to make the images look so good. In a blog post today, the company announced that it is open-sourcing a portion of this AI; a piece of software that underpins the Pixel’s portrait mode. Continue reading “Google open-sources semantic image segmentation that powers Pixel 2 Portraits”
Google introduced Hindi support for Google Allo over a year back and Google Assistant for JioPhone that was introduced a few months back comes with support for both English and Hindi. Earlier this year Google silently introduced Hindi support in Google Assistant on Android smartphones in India for few selected Hindi queries. Today it has officially rolled out the feature for all users on Android phones 6.0+ (Marshmallow and above) and it will soon be available to Android 5.0 Lollipop, iPhones as well as Android Oreo (Go edition) devices.
Continue reading “You can now talk to Google Assistant in Hindi on Android, coming to iPhone soon”
Google at the Pixel event back in October last year had announced Assistant Routines, and they are finally rolling out replacing ‘My Day.’ This feature is meant to allow a single phrase to initiate multiple commands and the feature is now live on the Google Assistant’s / Google Home app’s settings. Continue reading “Google Assistant Routines initial roll out begins”
Google has rolled out an update to the search results on mobile which now will display captions for images. The move is to give images better visual discovery and more context on the image results page. Google last year had started showing badges like recipe or product. Continue reading “Google search results on mobile will now show captions for images”
Google bought the Assistant for iPhones last year and today iPads are joining the suite. Assistant on iPads will do things exactly how it does on iPhones. It supports both portrait and landscape modes. Continue reading “Google Assistant now available on iPads”
Google today has introduced Plus Codes for Maps which is a simple location-based digital addressing system and voice Navigation in six additional Indian languages. The Plus Codes concept divides the surface of the Earth into tiny ‘tiled areas’ and assigns a unique to each. Continue reading “Google Maps in India gets Plus Codes to locate addresses easily, voice navigation in 6 additional Indian languages”
Back in December 2017 Google had teased about a VR display that will have 10x more pixels than any commercially available VR display today. It looks Google is now all set to introduce the next-big-thing in the VR space. The search engine giant at the SID 2018 in May is expected introduce the super high-resolution display. Continue reading “Google’s 1443 PPI 120Hz AMOLED display for VR to be announced in May”
Google’s wearable OS aka Android Wear could possibly be renamed to Wear OS in the coming days. According to a Reddit post by user H3x0n, during the setup of an Android Wear watch, the user was greeted with a new icon and Wear OS name for the operating system. Continue reading “Android Wear could be renamed to Wear OS”
On the occasion of Mario day, Google has teamed up with Nintendo to bring Mario to Google Maps. Starting today “Mario Time” is available on Google Maps for Android and iOS devices and Mario will accompany you on all your drives Google Maps this week. Continue reading “Google celebrates Mario day with new ‘Mario Time’ Maps navigation for iOS and Android”
Google has updated its search results that will put artists at center stage on Search. What this means is that the next time you make a music-related search, you will be able to hear the update directly from them in the search results. Google rolled out a similar feature that will answer your celebrity questions with selfie-style videos back in December. Continue reading “Google now lets Musicians post updates directly in search results”
[Update: The feature is also available for Chrome Stable and Beta via chrome://flags/#PasswordExport that lets you enable export functionality in password settings.] Continue reading “Google Chrome will soon let you export saved passwords”
