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With streaming music being the norm now, just about every major service offers a family plan so everyone can enjoy it at a discounted rate. With YouTube Music, though, family plans get complicated for younger kids, and there’s no fix in sight either. For quite some time now, parents have…

It’s been an intense week in South Africa – from the Senekal protests and Angelo Agrizzi’s health to the Orlando Pirates versus Cape Town City match and the release of the iPhone 12. Thanks to Google Trend analysis, we can glean data on what South Africans have been asking Google this week.…

Back in August, a “Hey Google, show me my day” command was added to quickly launch Assistant’s recap feed on Android. Google also previewed a number of other Assistant Snapshot features coming, with “Catch up on news” and a FAB with shortcuts now widely available. “Catch up on news” shows…

If you’re one of the many people who plan to vote early this year to avoid the crowds later on, Google is here to help. The company recently updated its search engine to feature a new tool enabling users to search ballot drop boxes and early voting locations in their…

Election Day approaches! Still not sure where the nearest polling place or ballot drop box is? Google wants to help. This morning the company rolled out a handful of features across Google Assistant, Google Maps and Google Search, all meant to kick in when a user seems to be looking…

Google Search now supports finding songs when users hum their melodies, as well as using machine learning to better understand typos and misspellings.The new ‘hum to search’ feature is available on both iOS, Android, and via Google Assistant.Smartphone users can hit the microphone button in the Google app and say…

New stuff: If you have ever got a song stuck in your head but could not remember the name or the artist, you probably have realized that it can bug you all day until you figure it out. Too bad there isn't a way to just hum the tune into…

Publishedduration20 hours agoimage copyrightMineralimage captionThe plant buggy roams atop the crops, counting and analysing eachGoogle's parent company, Alphabet, has unveiled prototype robots that can inspect individual plants in a field, to help farmers improve crop yields.The robot buggies roll through fields on upright pillars, so they can coast over plants…

Google TV streaming devices have a Home screen stuffed with recommendations. There are many ways you can fine-tune these, but if you prefer a less cluttered interface, you can also turn them off. The Google TV Home screen on devices like the Chromecast with Google TV is very different from the…

At the end of last month, Google hosted its fall hardware event where the company unveiled their latest phones and Made by Google hardware. Tonight, Google has announced a surprise “Google Search On” event, taking place on October 15, to highlight the latest improvements to Google Search and more. Every…