Twitter users were shouting for an edit button for years and few weeks ago, the CEO of Twitter confirmed that an edit feature will arrive. People have already started seeing the teaser of edit feature which shows how the button will look like and how it will work on the web as well as mobile apps.
Twitter sleuth Alessandro Paluzzi has shared various screenshots of how the edited tweet will look like. From the images, a blue pen icon alongside the text “Edited” will appear on the right hand side of the tweet date whether it is at the bottom or at the top side. The color suggests that the button will be clickable which will make sense.
Paluzzi has hinted on another feature that will prevent the users from misusing the edit button. According to Plauzzi, tweets will only be modifiable 1 hour after they go live. This will give the users lots of time to fix typos and ensure that the essence of 5-year old tweet is not changed to something else. Aside from the proposed Twitter takeover bid by Elon Musk, the announcement edit button is one of the biggest Twitter news in years.

Google is working to make it very easy for all of us to access the information about the local air quality. In 2021, it pushed an update to its Nest Hubs for displaying your local AQI i.e Air Quality Index. Now the information is becoming available for more places as Google Search is starting to show the city-level air quality information.
By searching about air quality or air pollution on Google will display a card that breaks down the AQI nearby. The data is provided by airnow.gov and PurpleAir in US, which joins India and Australia, with access to card. You can specify a location during the search or click “Choose area” in order to display a list of the nearby air quality stations. Under the map you will get breakdown of stations that can easily be expanded to show detailed information and toggling “Include air sensors” will populate the map with pins for local AQI sensors. The interface of the map is pretty basic as you can not move around or zoom in and out which can make examining air sensors difficult.

The popularity of Telegram has been overshadowed by WhatsApp but this messaging service is still very rich in terms of features and none of its competitors have come close to it. And the impressive part is the pace at which the features are coming. The developers behind Telegram love to send major updates on monthly basis. Last month a download manager was added and some user interface changes were also added. Now you can create your own notification tones, allowing you to turn your favorite music and memes into custom alert that can be assigned to any chats.
The latest update adds the custom mute duration thus finally doing away with default eight hours or two days options. These can easily be set through new streamlined menu that can be accessed through three-dot menu within any chat. It also allows you to access recently added auto-delete feature directly from profiles which when turned on lets you have more Snapchat -like experience where chats are deleted automatically at any set interval. Another notable change is that the reply previews are included when you forward messages to other chats.

The edit button of Twitter is coming soon and we have got the teaser of how the button look like on iOS. We have not seen yet what exactly will the workflow will be like. Famous Twitter sleuths Alessandro Paluzzi and Nima Owji have unraveled the parts of the workflow int he web version of the social network.
Palluzi shared a screenshot where he was able to activate a hidden editor for an existing tweet. It look exactly like the regular tweet editor save for small tweak. The “tweet” button at the bottom right corner is replaced with the one labelled ‘update’. Paluzzi also showed off what the edit button will look like in the existing tweet’s context menu where it is labelled “Edit Tweet.” Paluzzi was also able to pull up the interface, it is unlikely that allows you to change his tweets retroactively. This feature has not got a timeout, with Paluzzi being able to pull up interface for any of the old tweet, but everything we have heard about the edit button so far, that will not be the case when the feature will be launched. So far the Edit button will only be available for the verified accounts on Twitter.

Have you ever thought of speaking to a pair of smart glasses in order to send a WhatsApp message without touching your phone? This may soon become a reality, it seems a specific feature for Facebook Assistant and it will be locked to Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Users have found out that string of data suggest a feature is being worked on to dictate messages through Facebook Assistant on specific wearable line.

It is being said that the upcoming feature would let the Ray-Ban Stories owners to dictate messages into the microphone on smart glasses. It would let you to instruct Facebook Assistant to message a friend on WhatsApp so that you could do this while walking down the street without touching the phone. Alongside the strings of code, it has also been found graphics that include smart glasses and the WhatsApp logo. This is a very specific use case as Ray-Ban Stories have not revolutionized the wearables market. Meta also wants to keep some of its WhatsApp features in-house and will be using Facebook Assistant to integrate rather than third-party services.

Google is working to integrate Lens into various other apps to help the users find relevant information about images instantly. The tool has been part of Google Chrome mobile app since 2019. Lens has finally arrived in desktop Chrome as a direct replacement for right click reverse image search. Now it has been updated to do more than searching for images.
When lens arrived for the first time on desktop Chrome, right-clicking on an image brought up a “Search image with Google Lens” option. When you will click it you will be taken to Google Lens website with the image in question on the left hand side and the generated results appeared on the right hand side. Search is default reverse image finder which is still with the option to crop into any part of your picture. However you will now get “Find image source” shortcut that opens Google Images.

After the enormous success of TikTok many replicas have come up from different companies. Two of the famous ones are Reels from Instagram and YouTube Shorts. YouTube Shorts are integrated with one of the biggest video streaming platforms in the world i.e. YouTube. Now Google is expanding the support for Shorts to other platforms like web and the tablets in addition to expanding the content options for the creators to work just like TikTok.
Google has said that loads of changes are being made in order to bring Shorts to more audience and make it more versatile. YouTube Shorts will begin appearing on the web version of YouTube and on Android tablets as well as iPads. Google is also looking for recapturing the large screen market with Android 12L.
TikTok is still ahead of its competitors because it has got very powerful video editing and creation tools even allowing you to duet ans stitch videos from other users. YouTube Shorts are also getting the similar tools. It has been equipped with new ‘Cut’ feature will work identically as TikTok’s stitches, allowing you to grab a snippet from someone else’s video. If you want that others should not remix with your videos then you can opt out of this for your videos.