Google will stop scanning your emails for targeted ads

Regular Gmail users have long been complaining about their privacy being intruded on for them to see contextually aware ads. But with Google trying to grow its enterprise customer base, there have been concerns among its current clients and promising ones that Google plans to use their data for their advertising business. Hoping to assuage fears, this is the policy Google is choosing to employ for everyone later this year. They will still continue to scan emails for potential spam or phishing attacks as well as offer automated reply suggestions. But you have to take note that they will still show ads and use data from its other services like YouTube and Search to give you these advertisements.

Source: New York Times

YouTube’s set to introduce dynamic video resizing on mobile app

Having to adjust to the age of smartphone-shot videos where users sometimes don’t know they’re shooting in vertical (or prefer to shoot that way), YouTube is set to update its mobile app and accommodate the different formats people shoot videos these days. The upcoming update will have the software itself play the video in its appropriate size and not have it comply with a fixed area within the app. So in the future, you will see vertical, square, or horizontal videos as they were shot. You get to see a bit of that in the GIF above.

Source: TechCrunch

Samsung Galaxy Note8 tipped to cost almost €1,000

Rumour has been going around that the Galaxy Note8 is coming out in September. Evan Blass a.k.a. @evleaks shares exclusively on Venture Beat that the follow-up to the disastrous Note7 will be coming in the second half of that month. He also reveals that it’ll supposedly retail for €999 (almost CA$1,500). The Note8 is said to have a 6.3-inch display with the same edge-to-edge, 18.5:9 aspect ratio AMOLED display as the Galaxy S8 models. It isn’t even that much bigger than the 6.2-inch Galaxy S8+. But what would set apart the Note8 would be, of course, the S Pen stylus, as well as 6GB of RAM and dual camera setup (12-megapixel sensors with independent optical image stabilization).

The Note8 will supposedly have the same Exynos 8895 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor. The fingerprint sensor is still going to be placed at the back but will supposedly be “separated by a greater distance” from the flash and the heart rate sensor. Samsung gets conservative with the battery of the Note8 as it’s rumoured to have a 3,300mAh battery. It’s understandable that Samsung wants to avoid last year’s fiasco from happening again. The Note8 will also supposedly get DeX support so if you got the dock for the S8, you can use it with this device, too. According to Blass, the Note8 will be available in shades of black, blue, and gold. But we’re sure these will come in different names to describe them. Are you considering getting the new Note8?

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