Apps & Services
Google Chrome’s Powerful Upgrades Put Privacy First
Google is rolling out new features to Chrome that are targeted at improving security and performance. Users will truly find a new experience with these new features included.
An increasingly proactive and customized safety check:
- Chrome’s safety check will now launch automatically in the background on desktop computers.
- You will receive proactive alerts informing you if any of your extensions are potentially dangerous, if your Chrome version is older than the current one, or if your site permissions require maintenance, and whether passwords saved in Chrome have been hacked.
- To help you take action, these notifications will show up in Chrome’s three-dot menu.
- We are expanding Safety Check to remove rights from websites that haven’t been visited in a while, such as access to your location or microphone.
- Also, Safety Check can now detect and identify notifications from websites you don’t frequently visit, making it simple for you to turn them off.
More intelligent performance limits:
- To help Chrome on desktops function even more smoothly, Google introduced performance options last year, such as memory saver mode.
- When you hover over them in Memory Saver mode, you can now find more information about your tabs’ memory usage, including possible memory savings while they are inactive.
- Additionally, it is simpler to designate websites that ought to be live at all times.
- Go to your settings, find the Performance section, and toggle Memory Saver on to activate Memory Saver mode.
Tab groupings that are saved:
- When you’re searching for something specific, like gifts from several websites, tab groups come in handy as a method to tidy and arrange your tabs in Chrome.
- You’ll be able to store tab groups in Chrome for desktop over the next few weeks, allowing you to access them on other desktop computers and quickly resume your tasks.
- Close-up of a Chrome tab group labeled “Gift Ideas” with the “Save Group” checkbox enabled to see the group on a different device.
- Early in the new year, the firm intends to release smarter and more useful features for Chrome, driven by our new AI model, Gemini.
The Samsung Camera app comes with all the necessary features that allow users to capture good photos and shoot elegant videos via their Galaxy devices. To make it more effective, the company frequently brings new updates to the stock camera application.
Samsung Camera update
Samsung has rolled out a new update for the stock camera application, which comes with the firmware version number 11.0.02.95. The latest update does not introduce any new changelog, instead reiterating the previous one that addressed the issue of photos breaking when repeatedly shooting after applying a filter. But it is expected that the company will surely provide some improvements to the functioning of the application.
How to install
The Samsung Camera application update is now live for Galaxy devices, which are running on Android 14. If you are also using any of the Galaxy devices with One UI 6.0 or One UI 6.1 installed, then you can install the latest update via the Galaxy store, but in case the update is not reached for your device, you can also sideload the application via external sources.
Samsung provides more options for better photography
For premium devices that are equipped with high-end camera hardware, there are some more camera-related apps and functions available in the form of Expert RAW and Camera Assistant. With these applications, users will be able to use the smartphone camera more professionally.
YouTube is rolling out a new jump-ahead AI-powered feature for its users. Under this functionality, users will be able to skip the video by double-tapping to the most-viewed part of the video.
Previously, when you double-tapped on the video in the right half of the screen, it forwarded the video to 10 seconds. Now, to make this function more useful, YouTube has used AI, which is able to analyze the most-viewed part of the video and redirect users directly.
According to the information, the new facility will be limitedly available to users who have joined the premium memberships. It is worth noticing that YouTube has had this functionality for a long time. A few days ago, when the company had previewed this capability, it suggested a small experiment.
As this is currently in the initial stage, the functionality is only available for US users and those working on the English videos. According to the information, the jump-ahead feature is available for users who join the premium membership before June 1. However, after passing the experiment phase, it may be available for every user.
A couple of months ago, YouTube brought the Picture in Picture (PiP) feature for free to users. Initially, it was limited to US users, but it is expected to be available to other countries’ users. To get the latest functionality, users should always keep the YouTube update.
Samsung uses the Android operating system for its Galaxy devices but is not fully dependent on it. For some of the important functionalities, the company has made fully in-house applications to minimize its dependency on Google. The Galaxy Store is the prime example of it; even after having the fully optimized Google Play Store on the devices, the Galaxy Store is popular among users. So to make it more useful, companies frequently bring new updates to it.
The Galaxy Store gets updated to the new version
Samsung has rolled out the Galaxy Store update for both smartphones and smartphones with different versions; specifically, for smartphones, it is carrying the version number 4.5.78.1. Meanwhile, the smartwatches with WearOS come with version number 1.0.05.32. However, with the new version for Galaxy devices, there is no new changelog attached, which indicates that the update could not bring any significant changes to the application.
How to install the latest Galaxy Store version
If you are having issues while using any of the functionalities, then you must try to install the latest version. To check the new version’s availability, follow these simple steps: First, open the Galaxy Store application, click on the menu button, which looks like three horizontal lines in the bottom right corner. Now touch the setting icon, and you will see a list of options. Select about Galay Store. It will show you the latest version of the application.
The Galaxy Store provides exclusive content
The Galaxy Store provides similar features to the Google Play Store; for instance, you can instantly play games and use applications without actually installing them. It also provides exclusive content, including games, themes, and other customizations that you may not find on the Google Play Store. It also uses AI to recommend the best application based on usage, as well as offers discounts and deals on events.