Just over a week since archive feature came to Google Photos, the app will now suggest what photos you might want to archive. Archiving images on the app will just hide certain images you pick from the main view of the app. The update will build on that and have Google Photos do the thinking for you. The suggestions will show up in a card in the Assistant tab within the app. Google began rolling out the feature to its users but it’s not coming to all devices at the same time so if it hasn’t come your way, be a bit patient.
Canadians now finally have a smart home assistant coming in Google Home. Google Home is coming to Canada on June 26th and is available for pre-order starting today from the Google Store and Best Buy Canada. With it, Google is bringing Google Assistant to Canadians in both English and French. The device can be used to access news and weather, play music, set alarms, solve math problems, tell jokes, control home automation devices and can even make phone calls. All you have to do is say “Okay Google.”
Adobe's latest app enables scanning, editing and transformation of documents into PDFs for easy sharing.
Adobe Scan turns your phone or tablet into a scanning tool that automatically recognizes text. It allows users to capture images in a snap and transform them into brilliantly clear Adobe PDFs. Available on iOS and Android, Adobe Scan connects users to the world’s best PDF services, created by the people who invented PDF.
Microsoft did a major overhaul of Skype for iOS and Android and brings some features you might have seen on other messaging apps. One is its own version of Snapchat’s Stories that the company calls Highlights. If you’ve used Snapchat or Instagram Stories or even the one in Facebook, you’ll be familiar with how Highlights works. It’ll let you take a photo or video and decorate that with text or emojis and post those to that section. Unlike the other “Stories” formats, the content will be up for a week and will only be visible to people you follow. You can also send them to specific people or groups.
Skype is also more customizable in terms of the look of the app. It’ll allow you to decorate it in your favorite colour. There are also now Facebook-like reactions coming to both chats and Highlights. Cortana is also making its way to Skype. There will also be other chat bots like BigOven, Bing, Expedia, Giphy, Gfycat, MSN Weather, Polls, Stubhub, Upworthy, and YouTube. The video call feature of the app will now let you send things like large emojis, text messages, stickers, and photos over video chat. These will be overlaid on the screen. Aside from that, Skype plans to bring some gaming features into video chats in the future as well as letting people watch streaming videos together. The update comes to Android first and will be coming to iOS in around a month. Windows and Mac versions of the app will be getting these new features in the next few months.
Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 2:33AM 
