News & Reviews:   Google

Google's web browser will now help you save battery power and memory. Two new performance settings, Energy Saver Mode and Memory Saver Mode, will get rolled out with the upcoming Chrome 108 update for Windows, macOS and ChromeOS desktop users.

Google has revealed that it will be merging its Google Maps and Waze teams under one department to cut costs and consolidate operations. Specifically, Waze, the mapping service acquired by Google way back in 2013 will be joining Google’s Geo organisation which also houses Google Earth and Google Street View.

As we move towards the end of 2022, Google just released its annual Year in Search 2022 results. Not only is it available globally, but each country gets its own top 10 lists as well. Before we show you Malaysia's top searches in Google, you would be surprised to know that Wordle is actually the most searched word in Google in 2022. 

YouTube has revealed that it will be introducing custom global emotes for comments and live chats on the platform. Called YouTube Emotes, the feature is similar to the one popularised by the Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch.

When downloading or updating apps from Google Play Store, the only way to check the progress without going in the app store is by swiping down the notification panel. In the future, it might be unnecessary to do so while waiting for the download to complete, as Google could use a floating bubble as a progress indicator.

The FIFA World Cup 2022 kicked off yesterday. Not only is Google offering us a scoreboard to keep track of the matches, but it also launched a mini-game for us to kill off some time.

Google has announced a convenient new feature on Gmail that would allow users to track the delivery of their packages directly on the platform. Revealed in a blog post, Google said that the feature will be rolling out in the “coming weeks” to Gmail users.

Google Play Games for PC beta was announced earlier this year but finally, towards the end of 2022 - the Google Play Games beta is now available for download. All mobile players in Malaysia alongside the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore can now visit the beta website and check it out here. 

By now, most of you should know about Qualcomm and the mobile chipsets it provides. But did you know that Qualcomm actually licenses its chipset designs from ARM? Well, that license could soon be changed, which could give Qualcomm some big problems.

Zoom and Google Meet will now be really close to each other. Google has announced bi-directional interoperability between the two videoconferencing tools. One of the features is allowing users to join Google Meet meetings from Zoom Rooms and vice versa.