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Apple’s new accessibility features let you control an iPhone or iPad with your eyes along with more features Apple announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Eye Tracking, a way for users with physical disabilities to control iPad or iPhone with their eyes. Additionally, Music Haptics will offer a new way for users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music using the Taptic Engine in iPhone. Vocal Shortcuts will allow users to perform tasks by making a custom sound; Vehicle Motion Cues can help reduce motion sickness when using iPhone or iPad in a moving vehicle; and more accessibility features will come to visionOS.

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Here's a list of all the new features and updates in the Google I/O 2024 Event: • Google Photos' "Ask Photos" • NotebookLM's Audio Overviews • New Model: Gemini Nano • New Gemini Upgrades • Gemini Live • Project Astra • More Gemini Updates • Gmail on Phone Updates • Gemini 1.5 Pro-powered side panel • Gemini in Android Studio • Gemini Nano in Chrome • New Google Play features • Veo - AI Video Generation Tool • Imagen 3 • New 'Web' filter in Google Search as AI answers can't be disabled Exclusive content, only at Agam's Tech Tricks 🗣🔥 Credits for the individual posts: 9to5Google, Mishaal Rahman 👨‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Google Search adds ‘Web’ filter that only shows links as AI answers can’t be disabled Google’s AI-powered Search experience is now rolling out to everyone. However, with all of these new layers on top of the “10 blue links,” Google is making it possible to go back to something simpler with a new “Web” filter in Search. AI Overviews will appear on many searches, especially if you ask a question. This new "Web" filter will work like the images, videos, and various other Search filters, but the goal will be to show only links to the web. You won’t get specific answers to questions, but you’ll be able to find the answers you’re looking for on the web, just like Search used to focus on. 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Android 15 Beta 2 is coming on Wednesday (Today) Beta 2 should include major changes that coincide with Google detailing the tentpole features of this year’s release.  🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Imagen 3 Imagen 3 is positioned as Google’s “highest-quality” text-to-image model and offers a few improvements over the Imagen 2 model we’ve seen in Gemini and Bard. Imagen 3 is said to bring a higher level of detail in images without as many visual artifacts and impurities in generated images. The images are more photorealistic and lifelike when requested. 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Google launches ‘Veo,’ an AI video generation tool This model is built specifically for video generation that understands visual semantics and natural language, similar to other modern models. That approach brought into video generation offers results that can be creatively tailored to fit certain styles. Google notes that the Veo model will be able to understand “cinematic terms” in the user’s prompts, like aerial shots and timelapse formats. Veo is capable of generating videos in 1080p that can last beyond a minute, which surpasses current models like OpenAI’s Sora, maxing out at 60 seconds. 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

- Billing changes: customers with a Google family setup can approve their child’s purchases from anywhere; in India, customers can ask someone else to buy an app or in-app product for them by sharing a payment link; Google Play now updates price ranges to reflect currency fluctuations; items can be priced as high as $999.99 now; new badges reflect trending items; finally, customers in Brazil, France, Italy, and Spain can now pay over time for long-term subscriptions. (2/2) ℹ️ Credits: @MishaalAndroidNews 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Google Play has announced a bunch of new features and tools for app developers! Here’s a summary: - The ability to tailor store listings by search keywords. If you don’t know what keywords to optimize for, Google Play will give suggested keywords. - Developers can now leverage Play Points to launch coupons, discounts, or exclusive in-game items. - Deep links patching makes it easier to experiment or make quick changes to your deep links setup without needing to release a new app version. - A new surface (in developer preview) in Google Play for devs to showcase app content and enable cross-app continuation journeys. Devs can highlight the most important content from their apps and even launch users into a full-screen, immersive experience with personalized recommendations and promotions. This requires integrating the Engage SDK. - The SDK Console is now available to all SDK providers that are distributed from a canonical Maven repository source. Devs can also now share crash or ANR data with SDK owners. - Google’s new pre-review checks aggregate existing quality checks into one UI so it’s easier for devs to spot common policy and compatibility issues before their app goes live. You can also now discard unwanted releases in the “not yet sent for review” stage. - Play Integrity API can now return a Play Protect verdict, letting apps know if Play Protect is turned on and if it’s found any known malware. Through recent device activity, Play Integrity lets apps know if it detects a high volume of requests that could signal an attack. Further, a new app access risk signal (in public beta) lets devs know when a non-accessibility app is capturing the screen or controlling the device. - Listings for an app will now show screenshots, ratings, and reviews specific to each device type. Users can also search and filter through ratings and reviews by device type. (1/2)

Gemini Nano is coming to Chrome, starting with ‘Help Me Write’ Gemini Nano is being baked into Google Chrome on PCs! This will power a new “help me write” feature that helps users write short form content. When users click on “help me write”, Chrome will download and quickly load the optimized Gemini Nano model in the background. This will work on the “vast majority of devices that are out there.” Furthermore, web devs will get access to Gemini in Chrome. They won’t have to worry about prompt engineering, as Gemini Nano can be called by one of several high-level APIs, including translate, caption, and transcribe. Google says they’ve “started to engage” with other browsers on enabling Gemini and will be opening up an early preview program soon. ℹ️ Credits: @MishaalAndroidNews 🔗 9to5Google 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks

Gemini in Android Studio is getting some new features with Android Studio Koala! • You can now provide custom prompts to generate a code suggestion that either adds new code or transforms selected code. You can ask Gemini to simplify complex code by rewriting it, perform specific code transformations like “make this code idiomatic”, or generate new functions you describe. Android Studio will show you Gemini’s code suggestion as a code diff you can review. • It can now analyze your crash reports, generate insights that are shown in the Gemini tool window, provide a crash summary, and sometimes recommend next steps like sample code and links to relevant documentation. • Later this year, the underlying Gemini model will be upgraded to Gemini 1.5 Pro, which offers a much larger context window and multimodal input. ℹ️ Credits: @MishaalAndroidNews 🧑‍💻 @agamtechtricks