Streaming cable services like Hulu, Sling and YouTube TV are turning into regular commercial television. They are adding more channels alongside occasional price increases. Though there are still many key differences from traditional cable TV providers. YouTube TV has added to its lineup of networks and the choices include many cable stalwarts. YouTube TV has took to Twitter and said that they are adding five new channels to its lineup.
These channels are G4 TV, Recipe.TV, The Weather Channel, Justice Central and Comedy.TV. With these new additions one can say that YouTube is getting serious about providing more content of cord-cutters who are not sure about seeking the alternative to traditional cable or satellite.
The Weather Channel is broadcasting for 40 years and is as big as cable mainstay as CNN. Recipe.TV is an impressive source for cooking enthusiasts. G4TV is another channel which was canceled in 2014 due to its small viewership. Justice Central is another channel which focuses on the endless true crime wave. Comedy.TV has been around for quite some time now but it is a low profile network.
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WhatsApp could soon allow you create polls in group chats
Now a days most of the social media platforms are supporting the polls these days like Twitter, Facebook, and Telegram etc. WhatsApp is the main exception and it is weird one as it is the defacto standard messenger on most of the countries. So now being able to conduct the polls right there would be very handy. It seems WhatsApp is working on the polls. After following each screenshots of the feature we have now had the chance to take a closer look at it.
The latest update of WhatsApp beta for iOS has got the traces of feature that lets you to make the polls within the group chats. When creating a poll you need to enter a question with 12 possible answers. It is possible to rearrange them to you preferences. The report also say that only the group members should be able to see the polls and results. Though this feature has been spotted for the iOS app but we can expect it to arrive on Android soon. Apart from this, WhatsApp is also working on many new features and updates which include pause and resume function for voice messages and a revamped interface for the voice calls.
Google Translate now automatically switches Gboard language in a new update
Google Translate is a very handy tool when you need to quickly check the meaning of any unfamiliar word or for translating whole sentences. one of the minor issues is to switch between your default keyboard to that of foreign language anytime you need to type in Translate. This app is now receiving an update that will solve this issue.
The recent update of Google Translate adds the ability for Gboard on Android to switch your language when you input text in a language different from your default. Lets say you have English as your selected Gboard language, if you launch Google Translate and select Arabic, as your ‘Translate from’ language, Gboard will automatically switch to Arabic keyboard as soon as you open the text field to start typing. Similarly if you change to different language, say French, the keyboard will auto-switch from whatever language it was in before to French. Gboard will switch back to your default language after you exit the translation screen. Previously you have to tap the globe icon located on the left of the space bar if the language to be translated was one of your selected system languages. Otherwise you had to go into Gboard settings to select it manually. This update makes the things much more simple. When it comes to revamps we are still looking for Google’s promised update that will enhance “instant translation”, imported photo translation and captured image translation on Android.
WhatsApp is launching a new Camera interface in Android beta version
WhatsApp is busy in tweaking the features and functions with some new options for the messaging and are testing a feature of sharing the files as large as 2GB. WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most famous messaging app in the world as it has mpre than 5 billion Play Store downloads. Yet the updates to the WhatsApp features do not roll out to everyone at once and there are 2 billion monthly active users so a new camera interface has been introduced for Android users which was there for iOS devices for months.
According to some reports, some of the users are seeing a new and updated camera interface in the updates to the latest WhatsApp beta version for Android. It includes new look when selecting the media as well. The media bar of camera which has been removed in iOS has been restored.
WhatsApp is making it simpler and easier than ever to chat with new contacts
More than a decade ago from a humble beginnings on the iPhone, WhatsApp has grown to a must have messaging app for all and sundry. In USA it is the No. 1 messaging platform at the moment and despite being banned in China, it is still the No. 1 messaging app all around the globe. It has got more than 2 billion monthly users and 5 Billion Play Store downloads.
WhatsApp has improved the user experience to a great degree and now in addition to the new emoji and updated voice messaging which were released in this week now beta users are starting to see new tools to interact with phone numbers sent in the messages. Now when tapping a number from a chat, the previous behavior was to send that number to your dialer app so that you could get a call going. After this, WhtsApp presents a pop-up dialog first. The app checks to see if the line is associated with any WhatsApp account and if so provides you the option to start a chat with the user. This feature is showing up in the beta 2.22.8.22 release at the moment for Android and is currently rolling out.
Google Photos wants to highlight best part of your videos with Snippets
Though Google Photos lost on the unlimited storage in 2021 but still it is the most famous app of Google. It is almost indispensable for sorting out the extensive collections of the images and videos, while some AI tools allows you to highlight treasured memories each day. Some of the users have spotted an extra category in Google Photos that is a hint at a fresh way for sharing as well as watching smaller sections of the videos.
Reports are that there is a new option for snippets appeared in the search tab in photos. Now based on how the search page appears, snippets appear to be a new creation category along with the collages and animations. The icon shows strip if film, implying this will take a smaller section to a longer video for creating easily shareable clip. There are also reports that an option has been added to save specific snippets appearing in the app’s main carousel of the highlighted content.
The new magic wand button in Gboard is actually Translate for emoji
Emoji has become an integral part of our texting as well as messaging lives. Some people use them rarely while many of them enjoy using them every now and then. If you want to use the emojis in a better way then there is a new feature introduced for Gboard that tries to make the choice for you.
Some of the users have started to see magic wand button on their keyboard. When you have finished writing the sentence, tapping the button will insert many emojis that Gboard thinks are the closest match to what you have written. It has got two modes and tapping once will put an emoji translation after your text and tapping it twice will insert the emoji between each word. Sometimes it works perfectly while in other sentences it is just hit-or-miss thing. At the moment it looks like you are required your keyboard set to English but we may see support for more languages in future. If you need to try it for your device you need to make sure that your Gboard app is updated fully and maybe sign up to the beta program.