Apple and Google have announced a joint effort to enable the use of Bluetooth technology to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy and security central to the design. Both the companies will be launching APIs and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Continue reading “Apple and Google are collaborating for COVID-19 contact tracing iOS and Android apps, Bluetooth-based platform”
With an increased number of classrooms and educations being conducted online, Google is introducing a lot of new changes to improve Meet for their G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education users. These include Classroom integration with Meet, security and encryption updates, addition of premium Meet features for free and more.
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Google has just launched a new accessibility feature for blind people called the Talkback braille keyboard. It is a new virtual keyboard that will be integrated directly into android, enabling a blind person to type fast and conveniently without any additional hardware.
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Samsung’s in-house Exynos SoCs have been there for a while now, and the company is set to launch Exynos SoCs with AMD Graphics next year which could drastically improve the GPU performance. Lately, Exynos SoCs are being used on non-Samsung smartphones as well and on similar lines now, a new report suggests that Samsung is working on a custom chipset for Google which could be announced as soon as this year.
Renders of the Google Pixel 4a surfaced last year, and live images of the phone have along with specifications surfaced last month showing off the phone’s punch-hole OLED display, square camera module, rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and a small bezel below the screen. Now the retail box of the phone and more specifications has surfaced. Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a with 5.81-inch FHD+ OLED display, Snapdragon 730 retail box surfaces; launch imminent”
In February, Google released an update to Chrome Beta v81 that added a lot of API’s that could power new experiences in the future. These include Web NFC API, WebXR augumented reality API’s, etc. and Google has brought them over to the stable version in Chrome v81.
Google’s own game streaming service Stadia, has become the next company to take advantage of increased number of people being quarantined at home. Starting today and rolling out over the next 48 hours, Google is offering a free trial of Stadia Pro, which usually costs $9.99/month, for the next two months in 14 countries.
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Google introduced seamless updates back in 2016 with Android 7.0. Any Android smartphone that features Seamless System updates will have two partitions; A and B and when a firmware update arrives, it is downloaded and installed on the second inactive partition. Once the update is downloaded and installed, the phone will boot into the newly updated firmware.
It has been over two weeks since the government announced lockdown across India, and the poor and migrant workers are the ones who are suffering from the lack of food and night shelter. To help them Google in partnership with the Indian Government has started surfacing locations of food shelters & night shelters on Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant, to help migrant workers & affected people across cities. Continue reading “Google Maps, Search and Google Assistant now show food and night shelter locations in India”
With the launch of the Pixel 3, Google introduced a gesture of flipping the phone on to its screen to enter a ‘Do Not Disturb (DND) mode. Now, with Google Phone 47 beta, they appear to be testing a more traditional use for the same gesture: silencing incoming calls. Along with this, Google is also testing a feature to answer a call with 1-way video.
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Google launched the Neighbourly app beta back in 2018 as a local information sharing and Q&A app for select cities in India. However, it looks like that app will never leave beta as Google has announced that it is shutting down the app completely due to low user growth.
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Many companies are introducing special measures to help people combat the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. Recently, Uber launched its UberMedic Service to help healthcare officials and the Government of India launched the AarogyaSetu mobile app earlier today. On similar lines, Google Maps now has released the COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports to help healthcare officials as they make critical decisions during this time.
TikTok has blown up in popularity around the world for being the go-to short form video sharing app. Now YouTube is apparently interested in entering that market as it has been reported that they are working on their version, called ‘Shorts’.
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The 1st of April month is known for Fools’ Day jokes and many companies come up with a number of pranks. But this year, it is not going to be the same as the world is fighting a pandemic. Due to the outbreak of coronavirus and the present situation, Google has taken a major decision on the Fools’ Day jokes.
Google has been bringing changes to several of its apps like Photos, Gmail, Maps, etc lately. Smooth gesture to switch accounts was added to Maps, Gmail, etc and on similar lines now, Google has started rolling out Material Theme account switcher for the Play Store and this comes after a revamp last year.
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