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Google Wallet Makes Samsung Galaxy Phones Hotel Room Keys
Google Wallet on your Samsung Galaxy smartphones will let you unlock your hotel room through a virtual key provided by your hotel.
Google is continuously expanding its functionalities and compatibility to enhance the user experience. The new report revealed that Google has announced that the Google Wallet app for Android devices can store virtual keys for digital locks to let you lock or unlock the door of your room. You can easily unlock the doors of elevators, guest rooms, gyms, and pools by using the app and your smartphone.
Currently, you can add boarding passes for airline tickets; now, you can store and access the hotel room keys. A hotel’s app, email, or website can offer you the ‘Add to Google Wallet’ button; once you press it, it will bring relevant details to the Google Wallet app.
Noticeably, before going through the relevant details, you must check in, get a room assigned, and get the hotel key access. Apart from this, you also have the option to add it ahead of time.
You will have to unlock your phone to use the hotel room key. However, some hotels may permit you to access the key without even unlocking your phone. The first hotel to support this new Google Wallet feature is the Clarion Hotel Post in Gothenburg, Sweden. It’s expected that later on, more hotels will likely support this new feature.
The Google Wallet app is a completely free digital wallet that can store your credit and debit cards, tickets, passes, keys, and IDS. It offers user-friendly payment functionality.
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Google Translate is a part of Google Workspace. It is a web-based, free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. It translates several forms of text and media, for instance, words, phrases, or web pages. Now, to enhance the service, Google has announced that it is adding 110 more new languages.
A couple of weeks ago, the brand added support for 24 new languages to it; now, to add an extra layer of convenience, it is bringing the total number of supported languages to 243. However, Google has never added as many languages to Google Translate as it is doing now. On the comparison side, Apple Translate supports only 20 languages, and Microsoft Translator supports 135 languages. That gives Google an upper hand among the top three players.
Google has achieved this feat with the help of the company’s PaLM2 large language model. A few notable, newly supported languages include Afar, Cantonese, Manx, NKo, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Tamazinght (Amazigh), and Tok Pisin. Regarding this, the giant stated that the 110 newly added languages “represent more than 614 million speakers, opening up translations for around 8% of the world’s population.”
In addition, Google also stated that “some are major world languages with over 100 million speakers. Others are spoken by small communities of Indigenous people, and a few have almost no native speakers but active revitalization efforts.”
A quarter of the 110 languages come from Africa, including Fon, Kikongo, Luo, Ga, Swati, Venda, and Wolfo. These additions make this the largest expansion of African languages on Google Translate yet.
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Samsung is all set to introduce a new wearable, the Galaxy Ring, in the next few days. To prepare for it, the company has already started rolling out the support in the new update of Nearby Device Scanning.
Nearby Device Scanning is a stock application from Samsung that plays an important role in searching for new devices, so to make sure that the Galaxy Ring can also be identified with Galaxy devices, it has now started supporting it with the latest update. Along with this, the update will also fix some bugs and make the application more stable.
To grab the advantage of the latest features, you should install the latest update of the Nearby device scanning.
The update is now available to download on the Galaxy Store with the version number 11.1.16.10. It is coming in a small software package of 5.19 MB.
When you install the latest update of the Nearby scanning application, you will get more enhancements in the process of connectivity with the wearables, and as it is directly linked to the internal function of the device, you should keep the application up-to-date to make sure you will not get any new features.
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Samsung provided a dedicated camera application in the form of the Expert RAW application, which allows users to take professional photography with their smartphone camera. To make it more consistent, the company frequently provides new updates for the application.
Samsung Expert RAW gets 3.0.06.28 Update
Samsung has rolled out the new update for the Expert Raw; it is coming with version number 3.0.06.28. With the latest update, the company hasn’t provided any significant changes, which indicates the user will not get any major changes for the devices.
However, we hope that the company may improve the performance and stability of the functionalities of Expert Raw. If you are having any issues while using the application, then you should be provided with some features and enhancements for the application.
The latest update of Expert Raw is live on the Galaxy Store. The update arrived in a software package of 130.29 MB. In case you haven’t received any updates on your device regarding Expert RAW yet, you can still sideload the latest version of the application directly from external sources.
Expert RAW is a camera-specific application that provides several features or tools to handle and adjust the different elements of the camera. It is worth noticing that the application is available on limited devices that are equipped with high-end camera specifications. For instance, you can adjust the ISO, shutter speed, and EV functions.
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