Week Inwards Review - July 16, 2016: Hangouts, Projection Fi, Pokémon Go

This calendar week Google Hangouts got some long-awaited updates. It’s instantly possible to invite people to grouping chats amongst a link, taking the hurting out of invitations. And if individual gets unruly, you lot tin strength out boot them out of the conversation. Hangouts xi for iOS was besides released as well as Hangouts xi for Android is starting to curlicue out. The biggest changes are inwards the Android app, amongst the introduction of video messaging (yay!), as well as the removal of merged conversations (boo!).

There convey besides been updates for the Google+ iOS app as well as Google+ Create program, Google as well as YouTube explained how much revenue it’s sending to the amusement manufacture land fighting piracy, Project Fi instantly offers international high speed data, as well as the Republican as well as Democratic conventions volition locomote alive streamed.

It’s besides been a difficult week, Susan Wojcicki asked YouTube creators to operate their vocalisation to "help us all figure out how to alive together inwards respect." And Google as well as mobile carriers are offering complimentary calls to French Republic inwards the wake of the assail inwards Nice.

Call French Republic for free

• Google offers complimentary calls to French Republic (Google)
• Android Pay says G’day (Google Commonwealth of Australia blog)
• Tip Should you lot switch to Project Fi for your cellular telephone service? (Wired)
• New New various emoji amongst to a greater extent than sex options larn inwards to a greater extent than probable 1 represents you! (Official Google Blog)
• Update Google Keyboard v5.1 (originally bundled amongst due north preview) is rolling out inwards the Play Store [APK Download] (Android Police)
• Update It may shortly locomote possible to run Windows software on Android as well as Chromebooks (Eli Fennell as well as Android Police)

Privacy as well as Security

• Tip Websites that back upward (or don't support) Two Factor Auth (2FA) (David King)

Productivity

• Tip Print Google Drive files from your telephone amongst these tardily steps (Android)
• Tip Google's New Mobile Updates Make It Even Easier to Find Travel Deals (Lifehacker)

More some the web

• Facebook, Twitter, as well as YouTube blocked inwards Turkey during reported coup endeavour (TechCrunch)
• Google helps you lot brand certain your vocalisation volition locomote heard inwards the upcoming U.S.A. election (Google Inside Search blog)
• Watch the Republican & Democratic National Conventions alive inwards 360-degrees on YouTube (YouTube blog)
• Twitter instantly supports unnecessarily large GIFs (The Verge)
• Google is dropping the Local Guides Drive vantage from 1TB to 100GB (Greenbot)
• Microsoft starts downgrading OneDrive's complimentary storage to 5GB (Engadget)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links