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Google's new 'Sign-in' screen design starts rolling out

As for the current design change, the new Google sign-in screen tweaks include Google logo, and center alignment of all items on the screen. But the promised outline around the text field isn’t coming in this update, and will appear in the “coming months”.

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Google Move Mirror: An AI experiment that tags your dance moves with pictures on the internet

Google has launched an AI experiment for you to goof around with. Move Mirror as Google calls it, will be able to track your movements while you’re dancing in front of the webcam and match your poses with hundreds and thousands of pictures on the web. Google says it’ll be using over 80,000 images of people doing various actions like cooking, skiing and clip them adjacent to the real-time video of the person striking the poses.

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Google Translate renders gibberish into scary end-of-the-world passages

Google Translate is rendering illogical words in well-scripted passages with some inputs being detectable when translating from a certain language. For example typing the word “dog” repeatedly and choosing to translate the text from Maori to English will get you end-of-the-world sounding passages.

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Google Docs now employs AI to correct your grammatical mistakes

Google Docs will use advanced machine learning to detect simple grammatical errors on spot as well as issues arising while structuring long sentences. The Google Docs update will be initially available for Early Adopter Program members and will also make you learn to apply subordinate clauses over time.

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Google is discontinuing two of its Chrome extensions

"Save to Google" and "Bookmark Manager" extensions will be shutting down in August.

The decision to kill the extension comes as a surprise, as Google had recently updated its functionality in the Search Android app. The feature managed to gain more traction last year, when Google mobile search and the Google app added a quick shortcut to access the saved photos and links.

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Google rolls out Android P Beta 4 (DP5) for Pixels, Essential Phone

The latest build has the official Android P APIs at level 28, which has remained the same ever since Google rolled out the Beta 2 of the Android P. This means that the current build could be the last of the Developer Previews or as most like to call it, a ‘release candidate’.

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Google Search will now recommend events nearby based on your interest

Finding events nearby will become easier with updated Google Search results.

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Google Chrome is now available for Daydream View so that you can browser the internet in VR

Google has just announced a new version of its web browser, Chrome that is designed to run on the Google Daydream View and Lenovo Mirage Solo with Daydream. This means that users can now browse the internet in VR without losing access to their browsing history, saved passwords, and bookmarks. Users can launch Chrome directly from their homepage and interact with the web pages in VR. The company announced this new version of Chrome in a new blog post while sharing details about the features that the company has included.

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Google to bring India specific features on Google Maps

The two-wheeler mode in Google maps comes to India first as 70 per cent of all the vehicles registered in the country are two wheelers.

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Google Android P launched, P stands for Pie

After months of beta testing, Google has officially taken the wrapper off the next version of Android. Dubbed as Android 9 Pie, a stable version of the latest Google OS is being released to Pixel devices as well as the Essential Phone featuring a refined UI, gesture navigation, AI features and enhanced security. Devices from other OEMs, which were initially under the Beta program, will also be seeded an update to the latest Android firmware before the fall of 2018.

Android 9 Pie can currently be downloaded on the Google Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL and the Essential Phone by heading over to the Settings screen manually.

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Google is tracking you regardless of your choice: Report

According to an extensive report by the Associated Press (AP), it was revealed that Google is still tracking the activities and location of its users even if they have turned the “Location History” option off on their smartphones.

About two billion Android smartphone users and “hundreds of millions of” iPhone users who depend on Google Maps are affected by this privacy issue.

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Google Is Tracking You: How to Stop It and Delete Past Location Data

Even if you have Location History off, Google often stores your precise location. Here's how to delete those markers and some best-effort practices that keep your location as private as possible.

But there's no panacea, because simply connecting to the Internet on any device flags an IP address that can be geographically mapped. Smartphones also connect to cell towers, so your carrier knows your general location at all times.

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Google Search update brings more relevant information in one search

In a recent blog post, Google explains the new feature with the example of someone redesigning a kitchen, and trying to figure out the difference between quartz and granite for new countertops. When the same query is posed in Google Search, the following results will not only present the user with the difference between the two, but will also provide additional information such as their cost, benefits, durability, and other important things through neatly organized subtopic panels. This will help reduce the number of search queries and also save time.

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Google Is Tracking You: How to Stop It and Delete Past Location Data

Even if you have Location History off, Google often stores your precise location. Here's how to delete those markers and some best-effort practices that keep your location as private as possible.

But there's no panacea, because simply connecting to the Internet on any device flags an IP address that can be geographically mapped. Smartphones also connect to cell towers, so your carrier knows your general location at all times.

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Google issues a clarification on how it tracks your whereabouts even if Location History is off

Google recently found itself embroiled in a controversy regarding its location tracking policies, after it was found that even users that have opted out of tracking of Location History are still having their location tapped and logged by the search and internet giant. The issue stemmed from the use of Google Maps, which is the default mapping app for all Android smartphones, and is also used on the iOS platform by millions of users.

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Google Chrome will soon help you browse the web faster, here’s how

Dubbed ‘Lazy Loading,’ the feature has been spotted on Google Chrome’s developmental ‘Canary’ channel.

In the simplest of terms, ‘Lazy Loading’ is a technique that allows the web browser (in this case, Google Chrome) to load only those webpage elements that are currently visible on the display. The rest of the elements are loaded as the user scrolls up/down. This results in an overall faster browsing experience, since the browser doesn’t have to load and cache the entire webpage in one go.

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