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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads of apps… Source link

Google will add an AI-based feature to Workspace meant to bolster employee productivity by making it easier to find relevant information. The company plans to launch AI-produced summaries in its chat program Spaces in the coming months, and in the video conferencing app Google Meet next year. Google announced several Workspace features and news about Pixel phones, the Android operating system and augmented reality (AR) at its I/O developer conference this week. The Spaces automated… Source link

Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and editor-at-large David Pierce discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. On Wednesday, we saw Google announce a whole bunch of products and features from their keynote live stream — from updates to the Nest Hub Max to previewing a 2023 Pixel tablet. So, on The Vergecast, we’re focusing a chunk of the show on Google’s… Source link

While Google’s I/O developer conference isn’t exclusively dedicated to the digital workplace, there are enough announcements on workplace technologies to make it worthwhile taking a deeper dive, so that will be the focus of our news wrap up this week.  Google made a number announcements this year which look liked interesting additions to any organization operating in Google environments, particularly for those operating in a hybrid environment. So with no further ado, five… Source link

Google is opening its second physical store this summer. It will be located in Brooklyn. (Photo Courtesy, Google) Google is opening its second retail store. The brick-and-mortar Google Store will be located at 134 N 6th St., in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. It is set to open Thursday, June 16. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission. Source link

This year’s Google I/O keynote was filled with hardware announcements, which is unusual considering it’s typically a software and services-focused affair. Of these, the most exciting was the news that Google plans to return to the Android tablet market next year and that it’s also releasing its first smartwatch — the Pixel Watch — later in 2022. Google gave a couple of different reasons for its change of heart. But the most interesting of these was a comment from Google’s VP… Source link

Google and Amazon devices haven’t always played nice with each other, but it looks like that’s changing. Google recently announced a new Alexa Skill that brings the search giant’s Nest cameras to Amazon’s Echo Show and Fire TV line of devices. That means you can ask Amazon Alexa to bring up your Nest Doorbell’s video feed to see who is at your door or ask to see your living room camera to make sure the dog isn’t sleeping on… Source link

Google Search Console had added “translated results” to the search appearance filter in the performance reports today. This filter lets you drill down to how searchers who get translated results interact with your content in Google Search. How to access this filter. You can access this filter by logging into Google Search Console, clicking on your performance report and then clicking on the “+new” filter and selecting the search appearance for “translated results.” Here is a… Source link

At the end of its I/O presentation on Wednesday, Google pulled out a “one more thing”-type surprise. In a short video, Google showed off a pair of augmented reality glasses that have one purpose — displaying audible language translations right in front of your eyeballs. In the video, Google product manager Max Spear called the capability of this prototype “subtitles for the world,” and we see family members communicating for the first time. Now hold on just a second. Like many… Source link

One of the coolest things about the Pixel A-series was that it was an inexpensive way to get the very same class-leading camera as the main Pixel models. It’s one of the reasons I bought a Pixel 3A years ago — that, and it was in stock at Best Buy with in-store pickup. It was also one of the top reasons why the Pixel A-series was our go-to recommendation for the best budget Android phone for years. Everything else about the phone — screen, processor, battery — was fine, but the… Source link