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Google Search launches redesign with more images, suggestions, and ‘Things to know’

At Google Search On 2021, the company launched a redesign of the search results page that includes more images, suggested searches, and “Things to know” about a topic. One of the biggest focuses of the Google Search On event this year is the use of MUM — Multitask Unified Model — technology to better understand and map the world’s data, as well as to better share it with you through…
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Google’s new Nest Cams will get their missing web client in 2022 [Update]

The latest Nest lineup brings new cameras and a doorbell, but these products don’t work with the original Nest app at all. The Google Home app is missing some key features, including the ability to get a manual clip from recordings or see live Nest Cam feeds through the web, but Google says both of these are coming. In our initial review of the Nest Cam (battery), our biggest gripe with the…
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Google Maps readies Android homescreen widget w/ dynamic colors

The latest addition to Google’s rapidly growing catalog of Android homescreen widgets is a handy search widget for Google Maps. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play…
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Google Stadia voice chat on Android is now live, explained in support document [Updated]

One of the most glaring omissions of the Stadia app for Android may soon be fixed as a Google support document details how voice chat will — and won’t — work. Update: Voice chat has finally arrived to Stadia for Android. For many months now, our APK Insight team has been watching the development of voice chat in the Stadia app, including the app being registered for Android’s…
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Stadia for Android finally gains party chat, nearly two years after launch

Since Stadia launched in late 2019, the Android app has been the farthest behind in its playability, simply because it lacked the ability to talk with friends and strangers via voice and party chat. Today, that’s changed. While Stadia games have been playable on Android phones since the service launched in 2019 — albeit only on Pixel phones, at that time — it’s sadly been the worst place…
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