Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps
Let's say you start a call on your phone because you're not at your desk yet. Once you get to a computer …
Google debuts Gemini Ultra 1.0, its largest and most capable LLM, renames Bard as Gemini, debuts a dedicated Android app, and plans to add Gemini to its iOS app
its multimodal genAI engine Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog : Gemini takes over Bard: Google's AI with a dedicated Android app Mike Viray / Phandroid : Google Finally Launches its Gemini App for Andr...
Google updates Google Meet to recognize gestures in meetings, including raising a hand to trigger the “Raise hand” button; the feature is off by default
Google updates Google Meet to recognize gestures in meetings, including raising a hand to trigger the “Raise hand” button; the feature is off by default
Announced earlier this year, Google Meet is now leveraging gesture detection when you physically raise your hand to trigger the corresponding indicator.
Google adds support for 1080p video in Google Meet group calls for Workspace subscribers, after rolling out the feature for one-on-one sessions in April 2023
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Zoom updates its terms to let the company train its AI models using some customer data, but doesn't plan to use audio, video, or chat content without consent
Whether they're hoovering up all the data for training AI or not, it's bad optics and I've seen tech companies sink for less. … @GoTakeAKnapp@anti-social.online : It appears that Zoom has seen everyon...
Threads can avoid Google+'s failure by not simply relying on the scale of Meta's existing products, but by giving users a compelling reason to keep coming back
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Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion
In an amusing turn of events today that's most likely a bug, an update to Google Meet (which was previously the Duo app) on Android brings back the Google Duo icon.
Google Meet starts enforcing a 60-minute time limit on group calls for free Gmail users
In light of COVID-19 driving all communication online, free Google Meet users with personal Gmail accounts could take advantage of group calls without a duration limit over the past year.
Google launches new Workspace features, including a Focus Time event type that limits notifications, support for using secondary displays in Google Meet, more
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