While there are many workers who have been forced back into the office buildings but there are still some people are are working from home. Google Meet might not be essential tool as it was more than two years ago but the development of the features designed to make the meetings more enjoyable is not slowing down. For some Workspace customers, auto-echo removal is going to be a lot better.
Now Google Meet is going to be equipped with de-reverberation and it has been designed to automatically remove the noise picked up by your microphone from sound bouncing around your environment. If you are not present in the room that is filled with pads of acoustic foam than you sound will echo around the space. With the latest update, Google Meet will do its best to remove the frustrating sounds. It is a simple update but it could prove very handy. If you are recording a podcast remotely and you have a guest calling in to join the show, Google Meet’s de-reverb effect could bring their audio quality up to par with other participants.

Telegram is planning to launch premium tier with some extra features which are similar to Discord Nitro or Slack Pro. This tier will be called Telegram Premium and it is confirmed to launch at the end of this month. All the features which are free at the moment will remain free for everyone. Telegram has announced that free tier will be equipped with new features as well but it has not revealed what we are getting.

Telegram executive has not shared the details on Telegram premium but has said that it will let anyone to acquire additional features, resources and speed. He has also said that it will allow the users to support Telegram and be the first one to get the new features. Free users will benefit from Telegram premium indirectly like viewing extra-large documents sent by Premium users, saving the media and stickers or using their premium reactions for themselves.

Facebook has cancelled many of its upcoming projects and one of them is the discontinued smartwatch. It is still not clear that why this particular smartwatch was canceled but now some new details have emerged that has hinted what would have been the reason.
The smartwatch under discussion was codenamed Meta Milan and it was in the development stages for two years. This watch was expected to launch in 2023 but Meta announced that they are cancelling its development earlier this year. Now an alleged prototype of the Meta smartwatch has surfaced on the internet that shows its design and some of the specifications.
The prototype watch ahs got a removable dial that can sit on charging dock separately. It has got two buttons on the case as well as two cameras on the watch which are very rare in smartwatches. It has got a 5MP camera on the front and a 12MP sensor on the back. You can remove the dial in order to take pictures. The discontinued smartwatch was rumored to bring several features which include built-in support for WhatsApp, Instagram Stories, GPS, Spotify One, cellular and Wi-Fi connection and many more.

Google has spent most of the last year redesigning its lineup of Android apps ahead of the debut of Material You. Android 13 may not support all the new design language but that does not mean that the company is allowing its apps languish with last year’s look. Google Contacts was one of the first apps to get Material You-style design.
With the latest update to Google Contacts, this new user interface change applies directly to every person stored with your account. The new look removes old school lines separating the categories of information, now dividing everything up with various different cards matching your Material You theme. It just a small change but it is noticeable once you stumble on it. Most of the category names which include Labels and About, have carried over from previous designs. Phone numbers as well as email addresses now appear in a category of their own: Contact info. it has not change anything about how the apps will work though it looks a bit more unified with the rest of the layout. Contacts have been positioned in center below icons or profile pictures.

Nest Hub devices got an update last summer that has added a local air quality rating to the home screen, next to weather. Now after just few weeks ahead of summer 2022, Google added similar feature to Maps: a map of the air quality ratings in your area which is accessible from layer menu.
Google announced the change about an year ago and the air quality ratings range from zero ro 400+, with lower numbers being better. In order to view the ratings in Google Maps app you are required to tap the layers icon located near the top right corner and after that select the Air Quality under Map details. The data comes from the government agencies like EPA, Purple Air and Google says. It adds a Maps layer that shows live weather data were intended to launch in near future. It seems like Google is a bit late and you will see the weather layer in near future.

Google rolled out a workaround for the way iPhones handle message reactions sent to Android phones earlier this year, Its Message app interprets the reactions as emojis rather than text thus saving the space on screen as well as making for a smoother experience. Inspired by the approach of Google, iOS 16 is making similar change to the group texts. The conversations that include Android phones still don’t have full access to iMessage features which include an Android user in group text will no longer cause so-called Tapback spam.
In iMessage, iPhone users are able to tap the messages that they have received to react to them with little icons, thumbs up, thumbs down, a bubble that says Ha Ha and various others. Apple has named these reactions Tapbacks. When an iPhone user tries to send a Tapback to someone who is not using an iPhone that person will get a discrete text that says something like “Andre liked [message text]. Google Messages now translates those texts into in-line emoji reactions.

Dark Sky a very famous weather app was acquired by Apple with the consequence that its Android version will not function anymore. While the iOS version still lives on, it is also due to be sunsetted by the end of 2022. At WWDC 2022 we are finally getting to learn that what else Apple has been up to with Dark Sky’s resources all the time. And the good news is that the forecast looks like it has now included Android support once again i.e.WeatherKit.
WeatherKit is not an app itself, it is an API that can replace Dark Sky API Apple has deprecated and it is planning to kill off completely by next year. WeatherKit is not just only for iOS apps and it can also be used by web as well as Android apps. Apple won’t be launching Weather app for Android itself, a developer can use WeatherKit API to add Apple-sourced weather information to their Android apps. It allows you to have everything you want about the Dark Sky on your Android phone once again. WeatherKit needs iOS 16 so we can expect to see more after Apple’s betas gets started.