News & Reviews:   Google

Google’s first foldable smartphone, the Google Pixel Fold has long been in the rumour mills. Now, we may just receive confirmed details about the device and its launch date thanks to alleged internal documents from Google.

Google is reportedly working on improving the ‘Find My Device’ feature on Android devices. Maybe coming to Google Pixel smartphones in the near future, the feature allows users to track their devices even when they are powered off.

With the recent advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology such as ChatGPT, many are looking over their shoulders in fear of being made obsolete at their workplace. Well, the Ministry of Human Resources has allayed such fears, claiming that AI won’t reduce job opportunities.

Sharing files between Android devices and Microsoft Windows PCs has just gotten easier recently thanks to Google’s Nearby Share app for the latter. Now available in beta, users can test it out by downloading it from the Android website here.

Today, Google has announced the release of its OpenAI chat bot - Bard. The company first announced it a few weeks ago and the open access to Bard is now rolling out in the US and UK first. 

Google recently announced how exactly they’re going to integrate their Generative AI into some of their products. This includes the ability where you can ask GMail to write your emails and cover letters, auto-generate summaries in Google Docs, automatically make presentations and so forth.  

Google has announced a new perk for Google One users, whereby they will be getting free access to its VPN service regardless of their subscription tier. Previously, VPN by Google One is only available for higher tiers of the subscription plan.

If you frequently watch YouTube videos on your desktop computer, then the annoying overlay ads covering a small portion of the video should be familiar to you. Well, even the Google-owned video platform agrees that the overlay ads are intrusive and has announced that it will be removing them beginning next month.

Recently appointed YouTube CEO Neal Mohan recently shared the platform’s priorities for 2023 via an official blog post. Among others, Mohan announced that the company would be introducing new generative AI tools for creators “in the coming months”.

YouTube is currently testing a new higher-quality 1080p option that is currently available for a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers. The new video quality option is called ‘1080p premium’ which has an enhanced bitrate which provides more information per pixel.