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Alongside some nest improvements, Google has also revealed the plans for Google Home and Chromecast integration in San Francisco. This will enhance your control over your equipments. The Nest will soon be able to identify frequent visitors to your home and tell you who is at your door when they arrive, if you have a Nest camera set up there. This can also be used to display a live feed on your TV via Chromecast. This will also allow you to literally converse with your Google Home and make it to act accordingly. For instance, you can say, “Hey Google, Good…

When Google is about to launch the 2nd generation Pixel devices alongside it’s smart home assistant, the Google home app gets a major revamp in an update. The update dubbed as 1.25.81.13 brings a fresh interface with much easier navigation. The Watch, Listen, and Discover tabs have been replaced by new Discover and Browse categories at the bottom of the screen. While the navigation might be slightly different, Google’s familiar card layout returns with some new cards in tow. Most importantly, the Discover section has been made the default section and which will show you cards with tips to help…

Google seems not to be giving up on their Android wear program designed exclusively for wearables like Smartwatches. It is including a beta feature that allows folks to play around with upcoming features. For now, the beta program is very limited that considering that it’s currently supporting the LG Watch Sport alone. From a consumer standpoint, this might not amount to much, since we’re still talking about the Android Wear 2.0 interface. In other words, the main features still include standalone apps, complications, Google Assistant, and mobile payments, among others. The beta program currently upgrades the API level to API…

Google has included a bunch of exciting new features to it’s slides for G suite customers. One of the feature would allow you to make better presentations as well. Right now, there are 7 presentations available at the moment including major ones like Adobe stock and Shutterstock with more to come soon. With Shutterstock’s add-on, for example, you can find royalty-free images and quickly add them into your presentation without leaving Slides’ interface. Another great addition is the new drag-and-drop integration between Keep and Slides. What this means is that you can now just drag notes from Keep…

With more than a Billion active users across the globe, Google’s Android OS outnumbers the rivals with ease. The mobile platform accounts for almost 85% of the global smartphone market share so it’s not really a big thing to add a single man to its user base. But, what if the man is the world’s wealthiest guy and the founder of one of the world’s largest influential organization. Weird isn’t it? So, Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates has reportedly owned an Android smartphone as a replacement to his own Windows phone. Windows-powered phones managed to round up only 0.3 percent…

Android has come a long way since it’s Inception 8 years back. What we’re experiencing today is probably the smartest way of computing you could’ve experienced ever with your smartphone. But still, are they really perfect in everything?. The answer is No. For instance, what is the purpose of the app when you can’t really make a real use of it. Some users experiencing a weird bug that doesn’t let the apps to notify the incoming messages or missed calls. This issue continues to remain even after multiple number of reboots. There are also cases which report other notification…

Google has decided to make some useful handy tweaks in its AI assistant platform Google Assistant. These features are set to increase the ability and efficiency of the app by inducting new hot words and phrases. This may come built in with the new Pixel series smartphones. Besides, we’re also hearing strong rumors suggesting Squeeze edge in Pixel 2 and they call it Active Edge feature. This may be reminiscent of the HTC U11, but b Google would be using this for a different purpose, probably to trigger the Assistant. Back at I/O 2017, Google introduced Shortcuts that…

We guys used to copy, paste the links in the past and we never had any irks for doing that. Now, Google has silently introduced a new feature that will open you up the corresponding app whenever you tap a link or number. For say, you get an Email which has numerous number of links and stuffs. If you want to open the link you’ve to copy it and head on to the corresponding app and then paste it. This multi step process is now being simplified and made so simple. All you need to do is just…

If you’re an Android fanboy who loves and lives Android like me then we have got pleasant surprise for you. Some of the sensational icon packs from the Play Store are being sold for free of cost for a very limited time. They were earlier sold for an amount anywhere between 1$ to 10$. Few of those are. Six: With 900+ icons, this app supports some of the best launchers around there including Nova, Apex icons are circular in shape and blue in colour thus makes it reminiscent of the Nokia 6. Lanting: Has over 2,500 custom…

It’s the month of September when Smartphone behemoths line up their new series smartphones for their respective launches and it is September now. With Apple all buckled up to launch the anniversary iPhone, Korean heavyweight Samsung has silently unveiled its flagship product, the Galaxy Note 8 in India. As we have already covered the launch news of the device let’s dig deep into the device and go through the specs on paper. Samsung is always known for its novelty among its customers and even among its rivals. Be it infinity display or the Iris scanner or even the…

As Android Owner Google has decided to give a midas touch to its Google Dashboard app, it’ll be undergoing a major overhaul to improve on various fronts. The app was launched by Google way back in 2009 to view the data used and to review their account. You could just be able to see  how many emails you have in Gmail, how many images you have uploaded to Photos, and much more. The new UI has been redesigned mainly so that users with smartphones and tablets, which were only beginning to pop up when Dashboard first got started, will…

Just after launching the latest version of the Operating system Android v8.0 Oreo, the Mountain View company Google is now working for the next version and it is to be v8.1 . The relevant string shows that Android 8.1 will be accompanied by a bump in the SDK version, which is a sign that Android 8.1 includes enough changes to the API set to warrant a new SDK number. platformBuildVersionCode=”27″  platformBuildVersionName=”8.1.0″ The Android SDK (software development kit) is the collection of APIs (application programming interfaces) that lets developers create apps that plug into the OS’ features. It looks…

Sony has just revealed a speaker called LF-S50G, which is powered by Google Assistant and will rival the likes of Google home and Amazon Echo in the market. The move comes just after the announcement of Google in IFA, Berlin. That it’ll also support other speakers with its Google Assistant to turn them as a smart home accessory. This speaker just like any other assistant powered speaker will play you music based on your commands from services like Spotify, Google Play Music and Pandora, let you know what the weather is like, and even answer your questions just like…

Samsung launches two new fitness trackers at the on-going IFA event in Berlin, and the newly unveiled devices are called Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro and Samsung Gear Sport. So, let’s dig into the article. Samsung Gear Fit 2 Pro:- Following the announcement of the Gear Fit 2 fitness tracker last year, Samsung has now revealed its successor called the Gear Fit 2 Pro. The event took place in a pre-IFA affair at Berlin, Germany. Not to mention, the company had mistakenly revealed the details of the device in its official website last week. However, it…

Google’s artificial intelligence Google Assistant may well be the best personal assistant the smartphone industry has ever experienced. But that doesn’t mean it comes with no flaws. Like every product Google assistant has its own set of flaws and third party integration is one of those. This set to change with the advent of Android Oreo. XDA developers have found out a code which allows users to open and run Google Assistant within their apps without needing to leave the apps. Not only would the feature keep users within apps, but allows developers to harness Google Assistant’s capabilities. This…

We all know how capable is the Google assistant when it comes to AI skills and getting things done. Now Google comes up with another feature in Google now which intends to help psychologically affected patients. Major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression, might be one of the more common mental health diagnoses around, but there is still plenty of stigma around the diagnosis and about mental health in general. Google teams up with National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to help out it’s users to get diagnosed with depression by asking them a set of questions called…