Google is expanding its Pixel Watch 3 series with new straps and bands, including a new color option called 'Performance Loop'. The company is also adding a larger size to the watch series. The new bands will feature new colors, which have been leaked through images posted by Android Headlines.

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Google has redesigned the Google Play Store, adding a new Search tab at the bottom bar. The change is being rolled out to more users, with a prompt to help users get oriented to the new feature. The Search tab can be quickly opened by tapping the bottom bar icon twice, and the bottom bar is now persistent.

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Google Maps is rolling out a redesign that simplifies the bottom bar, removing the Go and Updates tabs and replacing them with a single tab for Saved trips. The new design also moves Notifications and Messages to the top-right corner and removes the search bar from the view. The Explore tab remains unchanged, and the Contribute tab is also unaffected.

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Waze drivers can now get navigation guidance, including turn-by-turn directions, real-time traffic updates, and hazard alerts, while their phone remains locked. This feature launches globally on Waze on Android this month and will come to iOS this fall. The new features and alerts will be available on Google Maps and Waze to help keep users informed on their travels.

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BigQuery, Google's AI-ready cloud data platform, is integrated with Vertex AI, Google's fully-managed AI development platform, to enable organizations to leverage generative AI models, such as Gemini, and AI services to work with unstructured data in BigQuery object tables. This integration allows users to analyze data using powerful large language models, including Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision.

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OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability standard, has announced a new curated pipeline for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of collecting OTLP data from instrumented applications and exporting it to Cloud Observability.

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Google is updating Circle to Search and Lens with the 'About this image' feature, which provides information from news and fact-checking sites, metadata, and digital watermarks. The feature is available in 40 languages. Additionally, Google is making it easier to remove explicit fake content, including deepfakes, by allowing users to request the removal of non-consensual fake explicit imagery.

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Google has brought back the official Prime Day deal pricing for the Pixel Tablet, now available for $299.99 shipped from Woot, or $350 shipped from Amazon. The tablet is available in the Hazel color and comes with a full warranty from Google. This deal matches the Amazon all-time low Prime Day price and is considered an affordable price tag for a flagship Google tablet experience.

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Google is expected to release the Pixel 7 Pro in October 2022, following the company's usual autumn announcement schedule. The device was confirmed at Google I/O 2022 on May 11.

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Google Photos' AI editing tools, including Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait Light, are now available to all users without a subscription. The features were previously popular among a select group of users, but are now accessible across a wide range of Android and iOS devices. Google Photos senior product manager Selena Shang says it was a challenge to ensure the features worked across different devices, but was worth it.

Source: https://blog.google/