Google adds links to media content services when searching on iOS

Google just updated its search capabilities on iOS to make it easier to look for media content—like movies and music—online. When you do a Google search on a specific song, TV show, or movie. The results will show in the Knowledge Panel icons for services that offer the content, like iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube, etc. If you click on these links, it’ll take you straight to that app or service. And if you haven’t signed up for the specific service, pricing information will be displayed, too. This feature should show up on both Google Search app as well as on mobile web browser.

Source: MacRumors

Musical.ly users now get access to songs on Apple Music

A new partnership between Apple and Musical.ly is set to bring more tunes to the creation tool/social network. Musical.ly is an app that lets you create and share your own 15-second music video using parts of songs and various video and visual effects. Now, you can select songs from Apple Music’s library to play with. At the same time, Musical.ly will let you listen to full songs from Apple Music within the Musical.ly app and create playlists from there. The deal helps out Apple in the sense that it has also been trying to boost the visibility of video in its own Apple Music ecosystem. Musical.ly is available for download on iTunes, Amazon app stores, and Google Play.

🚨🚨 Did you know?? We’ve teamed up with @musicallyapp to bring you full versions of your favorite songs without having to leave the app! pic.twitter.com/3eC21V6cme

— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) April 28, 2017

Source: Engadget

Uber makes it easier to delete your account, gives you more control over your data

A new update for Uber makes it easier to delete your account on the ride-hailing app. It’s now possible to delete your account and the accompanying data right from your smartphone. Before uninstalling the app doesn’t entail that your data gets deleted from Uber’s server. You had to go through the tedious process of contacting Uber’s support team to get your data removed. The new process will begin a 30-day countdown from the Privacy Settings page from when you delete your account. After those 30 days, it’ll remove all your data. According to Uber’s Product Manager Zach Singleton, this makes things a bit easier for them. “Internally, this lets us manage it better in terms of scale.”

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Apple Watch helps student call 911 after rollover accident

The Apple Watch has the ability to call 911 when you press its button for six seconds and this feature helped save  Casey Bennett, a student after his car rolled over and his iPhone was out of reach. 

“I was trying to figure out if I could get out, and I was like nope, you’re just going to have to hang out here,” Bennett said.

It was then that he pushed one button on his Apple Watch.

“I just pressed down this side button on here for six seconds and it called 911,” Bennett said.

Not only did the Apple Watch call 911, which allowed Bennett to get assistance quickly and it also enabled the SOS feature which notified his parents. Emergency SOS sends your current location including updates over time when activated.