Google Photos’ Live Albums feature has a 10,000-photo limit

Google Photos’ Live Albums feature is a nifty way to get to see photos of your favorite person or pet as it automatically adds photos of your chosen subjects into its own album. But it’s been discovered that there is a 10,000-photo limit to the feature. And once you’ve hit the limit, you’ll get a “Live album paused” warning, saying you won’t be able to add anymore. So, any new photos will you take of your loved ones will have to be viewed through the usually messy All Photos route. Unfortunately, Google’s AI isn’t smart enough to take out any badly shot photos or outtakes of your loved ones, so you’ll need to clean those out yourself manually. According to this issue’s page in Google’s Help Center, you can save 10,000 photos or videos yourself and another 10,000 if you have a shared album.

Source: The Verge

Blizzard launches esports dedicated app

Blizzard is heavily invested in the esports market so it comes as no surprise that the developer just launched an app that focuses on this industry. The Blizzard Esports Mobile App, which is available on both iOS and Android, brings things like scores, schedules, and other game-centric updates in the similar vein as the NBA app does for the game. It currently supports the tournaments for titles like Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, StarCraft, StarCraft II, and World of Warcraft. But it must be noted that the Overwatch League isn’t included here. Perhaps in the future.

Source: CNET

Google Lens comes to mobile users via Google Images

The mobile web version of Google just got a bit more helpful. Google started rolling out in the US first the Google Lens integration into the mobile web version of Google Images. All the pictures in the mobile web version of Google Images now gets the Lens icon underneath. Pressing that icon will highlight interesting subjects with dots. Tapping on these dots will slide up a panel of related images or products. If what you're looking for isn't marked, you can encircle it and let Lens do a search for you.

This feature is particularly useful for when you're shopping or trying to look for a specific product. The sheet that slides up is similar to what you see in Lens's integration in Google Assistant or Google Photos. Over time it can highlight other items like landmarks, animals, and plants. It'll also be rolling out to more countries and languages soon.

Source: 9to5Google

Western Digital outs its biggest magnetic HDD yet

Western Digital is one upping its competition with its latest product. The company just outed a new 15TB Ultrastar DC HC620 HDD, which beats out the last year's 14TB models. While Seagate has announced it plans to out a 16TB model this year, it hasn't materialized. These aren't consumer-grade devices though but are meant more for enterprise customers who need massive storage drive densities for server and data center applications. So, yes, these will be pricey.

Source: The Verge