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Google Keeps preps floating bottom bar [Gallery]

Google Keeps preps floating bottom bar [Gallery]

Earlier this year, Google Chat introduced a floating bottom bar, and Google Keep for Android is following suit.  When Google Keep got its Material You redesign in 2021, the primary change — besides Dynamic Color — to the bottom portion of the app was the floating action button switching from a circle to a square with rounded corners. (To my eye, the cutout for the FAB wasn’t very inline with Material 3. Look at how Google Tasks was updated.) Google Keep is now… Source link

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Google Search Testing New Search Bar Design

Google Search Testing New Search Bar Design

Google Search seems to be testing a new search bar design on mobile search. The bar shows the images, videos, news, shopping, maps, etc buttons but with a light blue background color, as a curved button. I noticed it on Friday and then again on Saturday, when signed into Google.com on mobile Safari on iOS. Thomas Eccel and Adriaan Dekker also spotted it on Friday and posted about it on X and LinkedIn. Here is a screenshot of the new search bar test: Here is what Google is… Source link

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Google Assistant Driving Mode isn’t dead, but it’s now just a bar

Google Assistant Driving Mode isn’t dead, but it’s now just a bar

Earlier this month, Google announced it was deprecating a slew of Assistant features. One of those removals was the “App Launcher” in Assistant Driving Mode, which most people assumed was the entire experience. Google tells us that is not the case, and here’s what will be left of Assistant Driving Mode after February 7. In short, Assistant Driving Mode is the black bar that appears at the bottom of Google Maps when you’re navigating. At the moment, it can… Source link

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Google Search rolls out new search refinements for top bar filters with related topics

Google Search rolls out new search refinements for top bar filters with related topics

Google is now rolling out the new search refinement-related topics feature in the top bar filters under the Google Search bar. Google previewed these search refinements at the Search On event a few months back and even saw Google testing it before that, and now they are rolling out. What do these refinements look like. Here is a GIF of these refinements in action. In short, Google displays this scroll list of related topics alongside these filters at… Source link

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Starbucks stock is popping after meeting ‘a high bar’

Starbucks stock is popping after meeting ‘a high bar’

Wall Street is sipping on Starbucks shares after a better than expected quarter sparked optimism on a broader rebound in the business next year. Starbucks stock gained 3% in premarket trading on Friday as fiscal fourth quarter sales, U.S. same store sales and profits handily beat analyst forecasts. The coffee giant had one of the Top 10 most visited ticker pages on Yahoo Finance ahead of the opening bell. On a call with analysts, execs stuck with upbeat guidance for earnings growth of 15% to… Source link

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U.S. bill would bar Google, Apple from hosting apps that accept China’s digital yuan

U.S. bill would bar Google, Apple from hosting apps that accept China’s digital yuan

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – Republican Senators want to bar U.S. app stores including Apple and Google from hosting apps that allow payments to be made with China’s digital currency, according to a copy of proposed legislation seen by Reuters, amid fears the payment system could allow Beijing to spy on Americans. The bill to be unveiled on Thursday by Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Mike Braun states that companies that own or control app stores “shall not carry or support any app in… Source link

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Microsoft Edge: Edge Bar feature first look

Microsoft is working on a new feature for its Microsoft Edge web browser that it calls Edge Bar. Edge Bar displays content in a floating window or pinned to the right side of the screen; both states are independent of the Edge browser window. Edge Bar is an experimental feature at this point that is rolled out gradually to users of the browser. You can check Menu > More Tools to see if Edge Bar is listed as one of the options. First launch displays a short reminder next to the bar with a… Source link

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Apple’s $19 Screen-Cleaning Cloth Sets High Bar for Brand Extras

(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.’s biggest debut on Monday was undoubtedly its MacBook Pro overhaul, but the company also unveiled a polishing cloth with its signature logo debossed in one corner. Price tag? $19. Most Read from Bloomberg The accessory, listed as compatible with iPhones as far back as the iPhone 6 and Macs dating back to 2012, is made of nonabrasive material and is already in short supply, requiring 3 to 4 weeks to ship. On Amazon.com, premium microfiber cloths go for $1.50 each,… Source link

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