Topic: beta features
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Google Messages Fixes Its Most Annoying Oversight
Google Messages is introducing selective text copying in its beta version, allowing users to copy specific portions of a message instead of the entire block. The feature, currently in limited beta testing, enables precise text selection via a long-press, addressing a long-standing user inconvenie...
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Google Messages' New Features for March 2026
Google Messages is introducing a new Trash folder for recovering deleted chats and real-time location sharing with customizable durations, enhancing user safety and communication. The app is testing end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between iPhones and Android devices, indicated by a lock icon, ...
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iOS 26.2 Beta Released: New Updates for Games, Messages & Measure
Apple has released the second beta of iOS 26.2, focusing on enhancements to the Games, Messages, and Measure apps for beta testers. The Games app now includes a splash screen and improved features like real-time challenge scores and better library filtering, while the Measure app gains a Liquid G...
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Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3 Now Available for Pixel Devices
Google has released Android 16 QPR2 Beta 3 for Pixel devices, marking the final beta phase before the official December launch with significant improvements over monthly patches. This beta achieves Platform Stability, finalizing all app-facing behaviors and APIs to allow developers to conduct fin...
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Google Ads AI text rules now reusable across campaigns
Google Ads is introducing a beta feature that lets advertisers copy and apply pre-set brand voice rules (like tone and style) across campaigns, saving time on manual setup. This allows marketing teams to maintain brand consistency by using these rules to guide AI-generated ad copy, ensuring all v...
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Google Messages' New Features for January 2026
Google Messages is introducing a new long-press menu and functional @mentions in group chats, streamlining interactions and improving coordination. A major security update integrates MLS encryption, paving the way for cross-platform end-to-end encrypted messaging between Android and iOS. Several ...
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Microsoft Edge's New Feature Uses 12GB RAM: Is It Worth It?
Microsoft Edge's new beta feature offers real-time AI audio translation for videos and spoken media directly in the browser, aiming to remove language barriers without relying on platform-specific tools. The tool requires significant hardware, including at least 12GB of RAM and a 4-core CPU, whic...
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Steam may add a framerate estimator feature
Valve is developing a new Steam tool that uses aggregated, anonymized user data to generate game-specific framerate predictions. The tool will base its estimates on user-defined hardware configurations, including CPU, GPU, and RAM, which can be entered manually or from a saved profile. For each e...
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Apple Adds Option to Reduce Liquid Retina Display Glare
iOS 26.1 beta introduces a new display tinting feature to reduce glare on Liquid Retina screens, allowing users to switch between clear and tinted modes for better readability. The update includes a privacy enhancement that lets users disable the camera shortcut on the lock screen, preventing una...
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Google Photos May Finally Get This Video Feature
Google Photos is testing a video playback speed control feature, allowing users to watch clips at various speeds from 0.25x to 2x. The app is also developing a toggle to hide date labels in the main photo grid, creating a seamless, less cluttered visual layout. These features, discovered in an ap...
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Google's Performance Max Now Offers A/B Testing (Beta)
Google has launched a beta A/B testing feature for Performance Max campaigns, allowing advertisers to directly compare different creative assets like images and headlines within automated campaigns. This tool addresses a key challenge by providing asset-level performance data, giving marketers gr...
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iOS 26.3's Android-Inspired Feature You Might Actually Want
iOS 26.3 beta introduces a new "Transfer to Android" tool in settings, simplifying the process of moving data like photos and messages from an iPhone to an Android device via a cable. The update also adds a Notification Forwarding feature, allowing iPhone alerts to be sent to compatible third-par...
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Google Analytics Adds Campaign Benchmarking Tools
Google Analytics has added a new benchmarking feature within its Ask Advisor tool, letting advertisers compare campaign performance against anonymized industry norms based on peer groups defined by industry category and business signals. The peer group comparison shows a median and 25th/75th perc...
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Apple OS 26.5 updates add encrypted RCS messaging
Apple's new 26.5 updates across all devices introduce end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging as a beta feature, giving green-bubble chats iMessage-like security with a padlock icon, though it's currently limited to select carriers. The updates also include new Pride-themed wallpapers, lay ground...
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Nvidia Fixes PC Gaming Shader Compilation Wait Times
Nvidia has introduced a beta "Auto Shader Compilation" feature in its app to eliminate frustrating launch delays by proactively rebuilding shaders for installed games during system idle time. The feature requires GeForce Game Ready Driver 595.97 WHQL or later and is not enabled by default; user...
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Gemini Automates Multi-Step Tasks on Android
Google has upgraded its Gemini AI on Android to automate multi-step tasks like ordering rides or food, though this beta feature is currently limited to select apps and regions. The automation includes safeguards like requiring user commands and running in a secure, isolated environment to protect...
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Claude Code Is Coming to Slack: Why It's a Big Deal
Anthropic's new Claude Code beta integrates AI directly into Slack, allowing developers to delegate full coding tasks from chat threads, transforming the platform into a potential development command center. This move reflects an industry trend where AI coding assistants are shifting from isolate...
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Your Online Reservations Reveal Your Dining Secrets
OpenTable's premium service now uses AI to generate customer tags based on dining habits, such as drink preferences and spending patterns, drawing from past restaurant visits. The system collects data through integration with point-of-sale systems, tracking orders and payments, and allows diners ...
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Google's Big Screen Recording Upgrades Coming to Android Tablets & PCs
Google is enhancing Android's built-in screen recorder with a new floating toolbar and post-capture workflow, specifically optimized for tablets and PCs. The update introduces features like selfie camera recording, refined audio settings, and a dedicated screen for reviewing, editing, and sharing...
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Apple's iPadOS 26.1 Beta 3: What's New and How to Get It
Apple has released the third public beta for iPadOS 26.1, tvOS 26.1, and watchOS 26.1, focusing on stability refinements and minor updates like a redesigned Apple TV app icon and enhanced Local Capture settings ahead of the late October final release. The update introduces a new Local Capture men...
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