Soon, you might be able to record larger video files for 4K recordings as code has been spotted in Android 11 AOSP code that removes the current 4GB file limitation. This will update a decision taken by Google back in 2014 to set the 4GB approximate file size limit as that was all that required at the time.
Google Photos has been adding new features off late like movie editor for web, search for text in pictures, manual face tagging, and more. On similar lines now, Google Photos v4.33 update lets users zoom in while watching videos and as of now, it is an unreleased feature.
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Google Translate offline is a pretty nifty feature for those situations when your data connection is unreliable or non-existent. Now Google has pushed an update that makes offline translation about 12% more accurate for 59 languages and added transliteration support for 10 languages.
YouTube Music is updating to finally get a much awaited feature, called personalised mixes. They will come in 3 types – the new Discover Mix, New Release Mix, and Your Mix. These three mixes will help users keep up to date on what’s just been released and also expose them to a wider range of music and artists.
Google has paused the rollout of Chrome 79 that was just released with the new phishing protections updates. Users who updated discovered a bug that caused data from other apps to be deleted. The reason identified had to do with how apps use Android WebView on Android.
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Google is rolling out a new feature called Verified SMS that ensures users can confirm the true identity of the business that’s texting them. This feature will better protect users from possible phishing scams received via SMS. Along with this Google is also rolling out better Spam protection for Messages.
Update: Google has announced that the interpreter mode is now rolling out for Assistant-enabled Android and iOS phones worldwide that lets you translate across 44 languages. It’s integrated with the Assistant on Android phone. To access it on iOS, you can download the latest Google Assistant app.
Google is releasing a new developer focused streaming media device called ADT-3 for developers to built and test out Android TV app implementations on Android 10. With the release of Android API level 29, Google is adding more performance and security updates with Android 10 to Android TV.
Google has now improved its Search, in particular timely topics, with better organisation using machine learning to help users explore more useful, recent articles. The newer Search will present results grouped by topics that are related to the searched term, letting users choose the angle at which they want explore deeper into the topic.
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Google has rolled out an update to the Chrome browser that includes more secure password protection in the case of a data breach, real time phishing protection, predictive phishing protection and small UI tweaks to make it easier to see what used account is being used.
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Google is releasing a bunch of new features and updates to Pixel users with the Pixel feature drops via software updates. The first feature drop will include updates to Google Photos, Duo, Call Screen, improved memory management and more. Google promises it will continue improving the experience on Pixel phones with more Feature drops in the future.
Recently, Google Maps enabled incognito mode for Android which stoped searches or places you navigate to within Maps from being saved to your Google Account. Google is now rolling out this feature for iOS user and will soon roll out bulk delete options of your Timeline for Android by next month.
Google has finally added the feature to send email as attachments without needing to download them first. Users will be able to write a summary email message and attach a set of supporting emails, which can be opened directly with the recipients email client.
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Google introduced Digital wellbeing along with Android 9 as a bunch of tools to help users unplug from their smartphones and have more fulfilling lives. Since then, Google has constantly been working on adding more tools to the suite, with the latest being Android Focus Mode.
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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