Travelling trips can prove to be quite stressful with electric vehicles, especially when you need to plan routes with charging stations along the way. To help solve this problem, Google is introducing 3 new features for electric vehicles with Google Maps built-in that will recommend routes and charging stations for trips.
Google is rolling out a new update to the Lens app, adding the ability to translate text without an internet connection. Similar to how it works on the Translate app, users can instantly translate texts in real life into their preferred language in Google Lens without needing to be online.
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Google Search on mobile is one of Google’s most used service among their users on Android. To keep the interface feeling fresh, developers at Google are releasing a new update in the coming days that will bring focus to the information on the screen by adding colour, making text easier to read, and more
While multi-tasking between single apps has been quite easy for many years in Android, using two apps in split screen has been quite clunky. As new form factors in smartphones are on the rise, Google is reportedly revamping the split screen interface in Android 12 with a feature called App Pairs.
For many users, Google Chrome’s built-in password manager is their manager of choice, thanks to its security and ease of use across the browser and Android. Google is adding new features to the manager in Chrome 88 for Desktop to improve security and help users manage their passwords.
Google is reportedly working on a new smart home gadget that will support multiple wireless standards. The new “interactive device” from Google has been filed for FCC certification, and according to the submitted documents, the device will support both Zigbee and Soli wireless standards and may not portable.
Searching for videos on TikTok and Instagram will soon become much easier as Google has begun testing an update to its mobile Search app that will show content directly from these two apps. With this update, Google is making another attempt to keep users on their Search app, while giving them a way to search for social video content.
One of the highlight features of the Pixel’s camera capabilities was its ability to click astrophotography. With the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5, Google offered the astrophotography on both the main and the wide-angle sensor, however they are now dropping support on the wide-angle sensor after many users complained about the quality.
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Google announced the Chromecast with Google TV back in October, 2021, with support for 4K HDR streaming and Dolby Vision. Now, Google has announced that, sometime early next year, the Chromecast with Google TV will support the Apple TV app, giving users access to the Apple TV+ paid subscription.
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During their L10n event that was held back in July 2020 in India, Google talked about increasing their focus on improving the accessibility of their services, specifically language barriers for the incredibly diverse Indian user base. As part of this effort, Google has now announced support for new languages in many elements of Search results, and in more apps such as Google Maps and Lens.
Google launched Project Treble with the aim of reducing the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem across various smartphone manufacturers and devices. Initially the project focused on helping smartphone manufacturers quickly push out updates, and now, Google has announced a new collaboration with Qualcomm to enhance and extend Project Treble right down to the SoC level.
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Google has announced a new update for Photos that improves and adds to its Memories feature. It can now show memories through a new animated cinematic view, added new collage templates and added new themes for Memories itself.
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Extensions in Google Chrome are a great way to add extra functionality to the browser. However, in recent times, extensions have become a source of data vulnerability and privacy attacks. In response, Google has announced new security features that are coming to Chrome in 2021 that will give users more control over what data can be accessed by extensions.
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In the current smartphone market, the camera plays a pivotal role and Google has pioneered this section and got the ability to deliver near-perfect outputs even through average to below-average camera sensors. Google Pixel phones are very well known for its computational photography capabilities from the day Pixel branding was born. The birth of Pixel resulted in the death of the Nexus line up. Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a Review — Masters every Pixel”
For most users of Google Chrome, the ability to save passwords and payment information across devices and syncing them with their account is a very helpful feature. However, there are some users who do not like to sync, but still would like to access their payment information. Google is adding this particular ability, making payments and password management available to all signed-in users.
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