WhatsApp has come up with a new feature that allows users to send and receive short 60-second video messages. Instead of attaching video files as videos, you can send video messages that can be instantly recorded and shared.

These new instant video messages are similar to the existing voice messages. Instead of a voice, videos will be the carrier of messages. Every WhatsApp user will be able to access this new feature.

To use this new video feature in conversation, you need to open your WhatsApp app first, then go to the chat or group where you want to send the video message.

In the bottom right, you will see the microphone button which is used for sending voice messages. Just tap to switch to video mode.

To record the video, you need to hold the button. Alternatively, swipe up to lock and record the video hands-free. Once you are done, leave the button and the video will be sent.

The sent videos will play automatically on mute when opened in a chat. To hear the sound, people will have to tap on it. Meta promises that video messages are protected with end-to-end encryption to keep your messages secure.

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a freeware and cross-platform service owned by United States tech conglomerate Meta Platforms. WhatsApp allows users to send text, voice messages, and video messages, make video calls and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

The WhatsApp application runs on mobile devices and can be accessed from computers. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. The service was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California, which was acquired by Facebook in February 2014.

It became the world’s most popular messaging application by 2015. By 2016, it has become the primary messaging app in regions including Latin America, the Indian subcontinent, and a major portion of Europe and Africa. By 2020, WhatsApp will have more than 2 billion users worldwide.

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Today, the Google Workspace team stated that it had begun rolling out a new technique to stop spammy Google Calendar invitations. This technique is now available to all customers, including those who still use the traditional G Suite Basic and Business.

You may now choose an option to display events on your calendar only if they originate from a sender you know, according to a statement from the Google Workspace team today. This will help keep your Google Calendar free of spam. When you choose this setting, email summons to events from unsolicited emails will still arrive in your inbox; however, they won’t show up on your calendar until you accept them.

Google claims that recognized senders include folks in your contacts list, in your corporate domain, or with whom you’ve already interacted if you receive invites from them.

Google Workspace administrators can switch from the default setting permitting invitations from anybody to the new setting at the domain level after the rollout.

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Google is testing a new Quick Intensive Throttling feature to run in the background reducing CPU time by 10% and extending the battery life for all devices. The company has reportedly introduced a new feature named Intensive Wake Up Throttling to Google 87. It prevents JavaScript from waking up a tab more than one minute after it has been hidden from the view for more than 5 minutes.

The company has claimed that it reduced Chrome’s CPU usage by up to 5x and by doing that it has considerably extended the battery life up to 1.25 hours for all battery-led devices. Google has also stated that for Chromebooks also the new feature will adapt quickly to reduce CPU utilization and extend battery life.

The company document says, “The JS timer Intensive Wake Up Throttling (Doc) feature has been shipped in 86, which will align the timer wake-ups to 1 minute interval after a grace period of 5 minutes. The 5 minutes timeout is very conservative and was chosen to allow a launch of Intensive Wake Up Throttling with minimal regression risk. So now we’re considering reducing the timeout to 10 seconds, only for pages considered loaded when they are hidden.”

The new feature can be installed very soon at the end of the test in the Chrome Canary and Dev version. However, you can install the latest version of Chrome Canary or Chrome Dev. Then open Chrome Canary & enter “chrome://flags/#quick-intensive-throttling-after–loading” in the address bar to set Quick Intensive Throttling after loading the flag to enable its relaunch.

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Google Assistant has got it’s new update! It will soon be able to recognise your voice as a new feature will be added into it. Currently, the Google company is working on its new feature which is personalised speech recognition feature.

This personalised speech recognition feature can make the Google assistant more better at recognizing the words and names.

This feature can be seen in the Google Assistant’s settings. Consequently, for using this feature, you have to store audio recordings on your device to help Google Assistant to recognise you. Audio stays on the device and it can be deleted any time by turning off the new personalised speech recognition feature.

Also, when you turn on Voice Match, you can teach the Assistant to recognise your voice. And then to verify who you are before it gives you the results. However, you can turn on Voice Match for a home Assistant-allow devices like speaker, Smart Clock, etc.

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Recently, YouTube Music has brought a Downloads shortcut on the Android app that will enable the users to rapidly play musics that are present in the playlist and has been produced by the Smart Downloads feature of the application itself.

This feature will give a rapid means to begin playing shuffled song on the application and it can moreover, bed placed on the home screen  to be utilized as a choice to play downloaded music in a shuffled way.

Meanwhile, the application is indicating playlists of Lata Mangeshkar as an homage to the legend who expired on February 6 due to Covid infection.

How this feature will work in Android

Pressing the YouTube Music icon for long time indicates a modern “Downloads” app shortcut. Occurring above “Search” icon, tapping will play random songs. This seems to encompass any playlists you possess separately classified for offline playback.

This feature is only working on Android and there is no news about iOS devices. Meanwhile, this feature will arrive as the best option for song lovers.

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Jane Manchun Wong.Twitter discovered that Twitter may be scheduling to execute a modern feature which would authorize users to publish lengthier tweets on its outlet.

He shared a very ambiguous screenshot in which not greatly is available respecting Articles. Refereeing by its phrase, it is understood that users would be prepared to publish tweets that would outperform Twitter’s 280-character end. This is extremely helpful for broadcasting up statements and blog-like posts which can effortlessly be communicated by others on the outlet.

Twitter is working on “Twitter Articles” and the ability to create one within Twitter

Possibility a new longform format on Twitter pic.twitter.com/Srk3E6R5sz

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) February 2, 2022

Among the answers to the tweet is from a user who announces he wishes this feature would not be particular to Twitter Blue subscribers. Additional users appear to be relatively delighted about it also.

As per reports, Initiated previous year, it was formulated to enable subscribers to revise any published tweet and upload lengthy tapes of up to 10 minutes, and pin chats in the DMs.

However, a social media outlet understood for brief messaging configurations directly enabling full essays to be published on it is an enormous modification. But possibly it is not completely out of the blue for the corporation at all, provided something they performed ahead previous year.

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Google Photos in it’s the latest update is now letting users pinch to zoom in on videos or double-tap to zoom in or out.

The latest version of Google Photos is now available on Android, version 5.28.0. With the help of this feature, On double-tapping, the video fills the screen in all edges. The pinch to zoom in and double-tap to zoom in or out makes it easier for users to have closer look on details in a video.

As of yet, it’s not available on iOS.

Since the feature seems to be a server-side update; Google is probably rolling it out in batches.

Google in recent days has introduced several new features in various of its platforms such as maps, A new Maps timeline feature on Google Photos, Cinematic photos, update on Gmail’s desktop icon.

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After introducing new features like disappearing messages, Always Mute, WhatsApp Pay; Whatsapp is yet again all set to roll out a new feature which would let users mute their videos before sending.

As per the latest reports, WhatsApp’s new feature that would enable users to mute their videos before sending them to their contacts or putting them up as status. This feature is currently available to WhatsApp’s beta users version 2.21.3.13

It is reported that the feature along with muting the video will come with a trimming option, adding stickers.

This update is currently only available for Android beta users will soon be made public.

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Instagram is adding a ‘Recently Deleted’ folder which gives users a chance to review their content before permanently deleting it. In layman’s terms, this feature will safeguard your content against permanently deleting it.

After the update, when users remove content it will be sent/ transferred to Recently Deleted. From this folder, the content can be deleted permanently or can restore it from the same.

Secondly, hackers sometimes delete content when they gain access to an account, and until now people had no way of easily getting their photos and videos back. This feature will help you gain easy access to those deleted content too which weren’t supposed to be deleted in the first place, be it by hackers or by you accidently.

Moreover, the content in the Recently Deleted folder will be automatically removed after 30 days.

How to get access to this folder?

Settings > Account > Recently Deleted.

However, Instagram already offers a similar feature called ” archives”. users could archive content from their profile without deleting it permanently.

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