Due to COVID-19, many companies had to modify to Home Offices. And continue with their regular operations but all online. Thus, encouraging the use of apps with functions of videotelephony and online chat services such as Google Meet.

Lately, more and better functions are being added to the apps with the help of collaborations that Google does with programmers who design extensions in its browser. 

So, here are a few extensions that will help you step up your productivity through a video call.

Google Meet Call Timer

This extension allows you to know the duration of your Google Meet Call. As a timer is added to your Google Meet Calls. 

Google Meet Grid View

Each participant in the meeting is given an equal size of video without keynoting a speaker in this new extension. One can enable Grid View in google meet by clicking the button in the top right bar right next to the chat and participant list.

Google Meet Push To Talk

This extension simply serves as a plugin that allows you to mute and unmute the sound by just pressing a key(space bar) rather than fumbling around the mute icon. 

Nod–Reactions for Google Meet

When running larger meetings on Google Meet, it can be difficult to evaluate feedback in real-time as you speak. Nod allows team members to send real-time reactions to presenters and speakers during meetings on Google Meet such as raising a hand, clapping.

Source: google news

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Google is tweaking its privacy settings to keep less data on new users by default.

The search giant said that starting Wednesday, it will automatically and continuously delete web and app activity and location history for new users after 18 months.

Settings for existing users won’t be affected but the company will send reminders about the feature.

The change comes after Google added new controls last year that allow users to effectively put an expiry date on their data, by providing the option to auto-delete location history, search, voice and YouTube activity data after three or 18 months.

The company is also making it easier to toggle in and out of incognito mode while using its Search, Maps and YouTube mobile apps by doing a long press on the profile photo. In incognito mode, Google doesn’t remember any activity during online browsing.

In another change, users will get easier access to their controls when doing Google searches. If they’re signed into their Google accounts and search for terms like “Google Privacy Checkup,” they will see a box only visible to them with their privacy and security settings

As part of its $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers, Google will start paying for some paywalled content for its News Showcase program. News Showcase, a new addition to Google News that launched in October, displays story panels curated by publishers — but it's not available in the US yet.

News Showcase will “start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers,” says a Google blog post. Google will pay partners for limited access to paywalled content. To access that content, users will still have to register with the individual publishers.

Users in the US shouldn’t get too excited about free articles just yet. Google lists partnerships with publishers in several countries, but the US is not currently on the list. News Showcase went live in October in Brazil and Germany. Publications in other countries, including Argentina, Canada, France, UK, and Australia, have since signed on. “Conversations are underway in a number of other countries,” Google says.
Google also announced a new kind of story panel, enabling individual publishers to display curated lists of important articles of the day. These selections will appear in users For You feeds, as well as a new dedicated area within the Newsstand on Google News.

News Showcase was first launched for the Google News app on Android and is now available on iOS. Google says it will be coming soon to news.google.com and Google Discover.

Source: Theverge

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