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The year 2021 shared some similarities with 2020 — a year that was difficult for the whole world. But with some of the grief that spilled over from 2020, we also saw resiliency and hope. Each year, Google highlights the top searches, and the search engine creates a video that reflects some of those searches. Along with the voices and images in the video, it reads: This year, more than ever, the world searched: How to heal How to honor someone Will there be another lockdown How to take care of your… Source link

One-on-one voice and video calls are now rolling out for Google Chat inside the Gmail app on iOS and Android, Google has announced. The feature was first announced in September, but as of December 6th it’s started rolling out for anyone with Google Workspace, G Suite, or personal Google accounts. It’s previously been possible to start calls from within the Gmail app, but until now it’s involved sending an invite to a Google Meet video conferencing call, which feels excessive for a… Source link

Save big on a Google Nest Hello video doorbell. Tyler Lizenby/CNET … Source link

Google Meet is getting new audio and video locks to let hosts turn off the microphones and cameras of other participants. The new feature essentially lets you mute a user and prevent them from unmuting themselves until you unlock them. Earlier this year, Google rolled out the ability for hosts to mute everyone all at once in a group call. This latest feature takes the move a step further by preventing participants from unmuting themselves at any point during the… Source link

The popular real estate website Zillow was criticized on social media after a TikTok video decrying an unnamed real estate company’s potentially nefarious business strategies went viral. Las Vegas-based real estate agent Sean Gotcher (@seangotcher) posted a two-and-a-half minute video to TikTok earlier this month, describing a scenario where a so-called iBuyer uses its massive, user-generated database to scheme the local housing market. An iBuyer, according to Zillow, is “a company that… Source link

A new startup called Happaning wants to make video a more immersive experience by allowing people to watch the same event from multiple perspectives. Or, as co-founder and CEO Andrew Eniwumide likes to say, it’s “Google Street View, but with video.” The company believes its unique technology offering these multi-vantage point videos could ultimately do more than just introduce a new user experience for video — it could solve other issues with misinformation or deep fakes, for… Source link

You’ll now be able to watch videos on YouTube and almost any other service with the aid of automatic English-Russian translation dubbing. This could be really helpful to those studying Russian. Meanwhile, Yandex says more language pairs will be added to the system soon. Russia’s tech giant Yandex has added a new automatic English to Russian translation dub function to its Yandex Browser arsenal, which can be activated on YouTube and beyond, according to a… Source link

GameStop (GME) apparently no longer sees itself as a retailer under the dual leadership of new chairman Ryan Cohen and CEO Matt Furlong, but rather as a tech company perhaps some day worthy of being in the same discussion as an Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG, GOOGL).  “GameStop has two long-term goals: delighting customers and delivering value for stockholders. We are evolving from a video game retailer to a technology company that connects customers with games,… Source link

New Nest Cams. The indoor/outdoor, battery-powered (or wired) Google Nest Cam with battery. … Source link

What do you want to watch? Well, if the answer is a foreign-language film or TV show, and there’s no translated version available, you might be out of luck. Now one of Russia’s biggest tech firms is working on a solution. In a statement released last week, digital services giant Yandex revealed it has been working on a software prototype that would allow users to watch videos in their browser in another language. The program is capable of simultaneously translating the… Source link