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Image Credit: Android Police Tired of lots of messages and SMS spam don’t fret google is here for rescue. Recently Google Messaging App users has been reporting seeing a new feature in the app called spam protection. The feature has been a topic of talk for a long time and was expected to launch sooner or later. The development completed a while ago, almost around six months ago but it took some time for rolling out to begin. The roll-out has been server side and is selective roll-out you may or may not get it soon depending on your luck and region. If you are lucky enough and has received the update then after the update as soon as you open the app you will be notified about. The notification can be seen in the below image. A user can disable/enable the spam protection based on the choice and the setting can be accessed by going to Settings>Advanced Menu>Spam Protection .

Google has been persistent in improving user experience of the Google Maps app. They gradually moved the Explore tab from sandwich menu to a new tab on the home screen of the app. This tab used to give the user a detailed info on the nearby places according to internal rating system of the google. Now they have tried something new to further improve the experience. In the new update Google has introduced a new tab ‘For You’ right next to the Explore and Commute listing all the item based on the personal taste and of end user. Rolling out with the regular update the new feature continuously gives you update on nearby Bars, Cafes, Restaurants and many more based on the location you have set as your home or work. This feature gives user an option to bookmark the places and they will automatically be available in ‘Want to go’ list. This feature can be used as an alternative to the Google Trips app as it has already begun rolling out to almost 40 countries for iOS and 130 or mor...

Google is reportedly developing and testing a new king of voice assistant codenamed “Duplex”. It is Google’s new Natural language voice assistant. They are expecting it to replace call centres and answer customer service question to the Realtime users. According to the statement made by a google Spokesperson to The Information currently they not actively testing it and are taking a slow and steady approach in incorporating the results that they are getting from their intense testing. Google is not testing the tech with the business right now but the business world itself could be looking for the ways to use this impressive tech.  The statement made by the spokesperson was “ It’s important that we get the experience right both for the people and for businesses and we’re taking a slow and measured approach as we incorporate learnings and feedback from our tests – Google spokesperson ”. If Google’s plans are successful they we may be looking at world wide disruption in call centr...

With all this new technology there comes a question how much secure It really is? With seeing so much advertisements about security in devices we completely overlook the fact that these things only work when user uses them and some of them are so complicated that normal user generally don’t use them. Being worried about the security of your device is normal because it may be containing sensitive data regarding your work or personal life. Even though the devices now days are very secured and safe for private data, there are still some things one can do to make it more secure for peace of mind. Find My Device (Formerly Known as Android Device Manager) This is best app for you if you are worried about the safety of your device, this is also the most ignored app and most of the time people don’t even know about its usefulness. It is a service provided by google for every android device and its completely free and available on Playstore . What this app does is it sets up your ...

Google’s Gboard was already at its best because of the direct link to Google Search all the company’s artificial intelligence-powered predictive and natural language capabilities. But with the current update rolling out to the users it became much smarter than before. Google’s Gboard now recognizes hand drawn emoticons and is now able to predict full phrase instead of just next word. These advanced features, improvement in image recognition department and Gboard’s Natural Language Understanding are the result of Google’s ongoing Artificial Intelligence Research, and the tool like “Quick, Draw!” which is a web game which guessed what you doodled on the screen even if it was very terribly drawn. The new google Gboard app can now suggest the complete phrase like when you type “be there” it will first try to understand the context and then try to suggest you with possible suggestion like “on time”, “as soon as possible”. Previous versions were only able to suggest up to next words usin...

Google Project Treble: Under the hood update you didn't knew about. Google’s project treble will reduce time it generally takes for an android update to reach your smartphone. Whenever some buys a phone that is not made by google there is always a risk that the updates may take a lot of time to reach their devices. To reduce the waiting time for every android smartphone user Google is going to launch a project named Treble with its latest operating system for mobile devices Android O. With the introduction of Google’s Project Treble everything changes. Google says that Treble is their biggest change yet to their low level system architecture. With project Treble what google is trying to do is that they are trying to make it easier for the manufacturers to push the new software to their devices, by cutting down on time and money required in doing so. According to Google’s Android Developer Blog Thing that will help the manufacturers in pushing updates faster is Sta...

Installing Android O on Google Nexus Devices and Google Pixel Devices. Google is almost all set to introduce its new Operating System for mobile phone i.e. Android O. According to the expectation and some rumours the said update is supposed to be released in August/September 2017.Google gave a closer look at the newest version of their mobile operating system during their Google I/O Developer Conference which was held at Mountain view, California and started on 17 th May 2017 (You Can Watch The Keynote For The Event Here .) Google has already launched three developer preview till now of the four which were to be released. This Step by Step instruction will show you how you can get the taste of the Google’s Newest Mobile Operating System Android O on your Google Phones. Note: Please do note two things The developer preview is available for google branded phone only. The OS is in developer phase so it may or may not be stable and may have lots of Bugs so continue on you...

It almost time to get excited about the phones from google in 2017. It has already been confirmed that there will be the successors of Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. There has multiple leaks all over the internet showing that the company is working on not two but three models of the upcoming Google Pixel successors. A German site names WinFuture followed by the sites Android Police and Droid Life had discovered reference in Google’s latest AOSP to a trio of Google Pixel 2 Whose code names are “Muskie”, “Walleye”, and “Taimen”. One can also see in the reference all three devices will be using Qualcomm’s cutting edge “MSM8998 Chip”, which is commonly known as Snapdragon 835. After the launch of Samsung Galaxy S8 and use of Snapdragon 835 it is clear that Google is not planning to launch a budget friendly smartphone this year. As we all know no affordable phone can come top notch Snapdragon 835 in it. This is the third time independent confirmation of the codenames of upcom...

After the launch of the google voice search functionality there has been millions of users using this feature in everyday life. But did you know that google keeps the track of the searches you made through its app. Whenever you say any search query following the command “O.K Google” into the search giant’s app a copy of the recording of your voice search will most likely be stored on your Google history page. You can see/hear these recordings by going on the link http://history.google.com/history/audio and logging into your google account and clicking the play button next to the recording you want to hear. For some security reasons google always store all kind of interaction you make through google in its database. For example, if google has access to your device location settings for mapping and search suggestions, it will store your location history on its database and you can see it on google maps when you are logged in to your Google account. Other than the securi...

Google Could Implement Facial Recognition In Android Pay For Loyalty Programs. Acceding to 9to5Google in their close look at the code of new Android Pay app, Google could be looking to implement facial recognition. In the apk teardown of Android Pay version 1.22 they found a feature called Visual ID, which was described as “a secure way to verify your identity at various participating stores which would make things like earning loyalty points and redeeming rewards easier.” The site also clarifies that this sort of teardown does not mean that they will actually be implementing this feature. Android police also conducted their own examination of the apk teardown code, and found out that when a person confirms his/her identity by using Visual ID any rewards point or loyalty perks are automatically applied to his/her purchase. With the help of Bluetooth, the system detects the location of the customer and would also presumable require camera in the store to take pictures of t...

A very long wait for android wear 2.0 for Asus Zenwatch 3 users is finally over. Asus on their official twitter account has confirmed that the Android Wear 2.0 update for Zenwatch 3 has been rolling out since yesterday. This is really a very good news for all Zenwatch 3 users, but we really hope Asus's social media manager knows what he or she is talking about because so far, we've seen absolutely no screenshots shared online by Zenwatch 3 owners confirming the rollout. This could really mean that the update has not started yet since there are no screenshots till now or it may have reached only limited devices and has yet to reach widely. Any way, it’s almost about time Asus’s latest smartwatches get its own taste of the newest Android Wear 2.0 iteration. The OS has been under development since its launch in May, so it would be very nice if it hits more watches.

Android Wear 2.0 Rolling Out To Huawei Watch Preview Users, Full Release Coming Soon A lot of smartwatches has been rarely getting updates to Android Wear 2.0, and among them all Huawei is one of the devices lacking the update. Even though it was part of the preview program from the start it didn’t receive the update. But now it looks like the update is being finally pushed. According to some of the users of Huawei watch on Reddit, The first Android wear device of Huawei is getting the upgrade to Android Wear 2.0. the update arrives as any other would but there is one condition. It seems like the update is arriving to only those persons who already have Android Wear 2.0 Developer Preview Installed on the Device. The user who are on the stable release on Android Wear 1.5 are not reporting any updates. But there is no need to worry the4 update to the preview user means the update will be rolling to the stable user too in coming days or weeks, we just have to wait a bit more f...

Tech Giant Google finally killed the beta programme for Android Nougat so there will be no more beta-test version of the software available. Instead we all are waiting eagerly for the full release for the new android version that is Android O. the developer preview version of the OS is already available and was released on March 21. Developers that are subscribed are currently in Preview 1 which one can call an alpha version. Beta version of the OS cannot be expected until after the official launch of Android O on May 17 at Google’s annual I/O Developer conference. Google most likely would be announcing all the new and great features we could expect in the upcoming android version. The official name for the new version of Android O/ Android 8.0 probably would be announced too. But according to the rumours and the fact that Google names the android version on the name of some delicious treats the most expected name is “Android Oreo” but who knows the new name could be a surpris...

So today I am going to tell you about googles plan to take Apple iMessage head on by introducing its own enhanced SMS app. The Tech giant’s plan to bring SMS text messaging into the modern internet age is finally taking shape and who knows their other plan to take on Apple’s iMessaging app may be a success. On Feb The 24th i.e. on Friday the company confirmed that 27 more wireless operators and device makers around the world will soon roll out support for Rich Communication Services, or RCS. RCS adds enhanced and advanced features to text messaging such as picture sharing, read receipts, and group chat. Mobile carriers, including Orange, Deutsche Telekom and Globe, will join Sprint, Rogers and Telenor, in preloading Android with the newly named Android Messages as the standard messaging app on phones their subscribers use. Amir Sarhangi, Head of RCS at google also confirmed that several manufactures like Sony, LG, Motorola and ZTE has said that they will embed this technology in t...