Inserting emojis in Google Docs is now much more streamlined thanks to a new update that allows people immediately search and insert the popular smileys when typing, Google said in a blog post Monday. Inserting an emoji requires typing the “@” followed by relevant text, such as “smile” or “dog.” A dropdown menu will appear, …
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Whether you’re new to the Mac world or have been an avid user for years, there are lots of little tricks and shortcuts many people don’t know about that can make your experience with these devices more productive. And what better time to learn a few new things about your Mac with the latest version of MacOS, Ventura, approaching? It …
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Zoom wants to make it easier for users to get attention in meetings. The company’s ubiquitous videoconferencing platform now has a gesture-recognition feature in its desktop app that’ll display a thumbs-up emoji when you make the gesture on camera and a raised-hand icon when you raise your hand. The feature has been part of Zoom’s app for iPhone since last summer but …
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A new iPhone update arrived recently: iOS 15.4.1. Coming on the heels of iOS 15.4, this update is relatively small but still important: It resolves a battery-draining bug and fixes a security flaw that Apple says “may have been actively exploited” on some devices. Read more: iOS 16 Wish List: New iPhone Features We Hope Apple Debuts at WWDC Some iPhone users took …
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WhatsApp is adding a new way for users to gather and chat with Communities, which is intended for organizations like schools and neighborhoods to coordinate and share media. Communities are WhatsApp’s answer to Telegram’s massive Groups and Channels, and while it’s unclear how many users can join a Community, they won’t be as much as the “hundreds of thousands of …
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Millions of people use Slack every day to communicate with co-workers and friends, whether it’s back-and-forth GIF threads or quick one-off messages. The app is filled with extra features to make messaging easy and fun. Scheduling your Slack messages to deliver at a later time is one of its handier features for today’s hybrid workspaces. If you work different hours …
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Google says that Google Docs users will be able to use emoji reactions in documents. The new feature will be on by default, but it can be turned off. “The new emoji reactions feature provides a less formal alternative to comments to express your opinions about document content,” Google said in a blog post last week. Google said this feature will …
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Apple’s iOS 15.4 has a slew of new features for your iPhone. This includes new emoji, the long-awaited Universal Control, bolstered privacy measures and Face ID that works while you’re wearing a mask. (All these features are also available for iPad via iPadOS 15.4.) Apple has also since released iOS 15.4.1, a minor iPhone update to fix a battery-draining bug …
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iOS 15.4 rolled out to iPhones last week, bringing with it several new features including mask-friendly Face ID, a general-neutral voice for Siri, Universal Control and 37 new emoji. As seen in Unicode last year, the updated emoji library features seven more smileys and some very specific objects. (Confused about what these emoji actually mean? We help you decipher them …
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Google introduced a swathe of new Android updates on Thursday. As well as paying for parking by using voice command and a whole bunch of Messages updates including iPhone-like reactions, Android also updated Google TV, Photos, Widgets, Gboard and Nearby Share. Here are the latest features on Android: Google Photos: Portrait Blur is coming to more types of photos, like those …
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