Google Workspace

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  Google Drive's Document Scanner Updated With Auto Enhancement Feature on Android

  Google Drive is getting a new feature for its mobile document scanner tool. The new feature, dubbed ‘auto enhancements’ was announced on Friday and can automatically enhance the resolution and image quality of a digitised document to improve its readability. The new tool can fix a number of issues in a scanned document including white balance, ...

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  Google Docs Gets Upgraded With Gemini AI-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Feature for Workspace Users

  Google Docs is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will let users create formatted documents from scratch. Available for Google Workspace users in early access, the ‘Help me create’ feature can also take context from files saved in the Workspace account and make documents using them. The Mountain View-based tech giant claims...

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  Gemini App for Android and iOS Now Available to Google Workspace Users

  Gemini app for Android and iOS is now available for Google Workspace users, the company announced on Wednesday. With this, Workspace users can access the Gemini mobile app as a core service and use it for organisational tasks. Earlier, these users could only access Gemini capabilities on the web and within certain apps such as Google Docs or Gmail.

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  Google Chat Updated With Slack-Inspired 'Huddles' Feature for Instant Meetings

  Google Chat 'huddles' feature is now rolling out to Workspace users, allowing the to quickly initiate a meeting with a colleague. It is designed to open a picture-in-picture audio call, with the option to add video or screen sharing. Slack has offered a similar quick calling feature in 2021, that was updated with video support a year later.

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  Google Calendar Gets Full-Screen Task Lists Feature on Android for Easy Task Management

  Google has introduced a new feature for its Calendar app on Android which aims to make managing tasks easier. The app lets users create tasks, edit them with details, create sub-tasks, and use them with Google Workspace products like Gmail and Calendar — synced across devices. The company introduced full-screen task lists on the web last year and...

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  Google Docs Gets Upgraded With Gemini-Powered Text-to-Image Generation Feature

  Google Docs is getting a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that will allow users to generate in-line images. Announced on Friday, the feature will be available via Gemini to Google Workspace users. The text-to-image generator is powered by the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Imagen 3 AI model and can generate high-resolution images that c...

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  Gemini in Gmail Gets Integration With Google Calendar App, Lets Users Ask Date-Based Queries

  Gemini in Gmail is getting support for more artificial intelligence (AI) functionalities. On Wednesday, Google announced the integration of the Google Calendar app with its native AI model Gemini. This way, eligible users can use Gemini within Gmail to ask Calendar-based queries to users. The feature is available to those Google Workspace users who...

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  Google Vids AI-Powered Video Creation Tool Rolling Out to Select Workspace Users

  Google Vids, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) video creation tool, is now rolling out to select Google Workspace users. Announced on Thursday, the tool can assist users across multiple steps in the video and presentation-making workflow. Interestingly, Google Vids is not an AI video generation tool like Runway or Pika, which can generat...

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  Gemini AI Assistant Gets Google Home Extension, Can Control Smart Home Devices

  Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant is getting support of a new extension that will allow users to control their smart home appliances. The AI-powered virtual assistant for Android devices has been receiving regular extension support to perform more tasks on the device and match the performance level of the older Google Assistant. Current...

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  Google Rolls Out AI-Powered ‘Help Me Write’ Shortcut to Gmail for Web, Expands ‘Polish’ to More Platforms

  Google is rolling out features powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to the web and mobile, including new shortcuts. Following the latest Workspace updates, the Mountain View-based tech giant brings a new ‘Help Me Write’ shortcut which leverages AI to provide writing suggestions when writing or refining text in open text fields on the web. Ad...

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  Google Drive Rolls Out New Video Player With Fast-Forward and Rewind Buttons

  Google is rolling out a revamped video player for its cloud storage service — Google Drive. It gets a new look in line with the Mountain View-based tech giant’s Material Design 3 system. Following its introduction, there are dedicated buttons for fast-forwarding and rewinding the media while the playback speed adjustment option also gets an enh...

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  Canva Dream Lab AI Image Generator Launched; Visual Suite Updated With New Features

  Canva announced a new text-to-image artificial intelligence (AI) generation tool and added several new features to its Visual Suite on Wednesday. The Sydney-based visual communications platform introduced AI image generator Dream Lab, a platform that was built on the tech stack of Leonardo.Ai, just three months after it was acquired. Additionally, ...

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  Gemini in Google Chat Rolled Out for Workspace Users, Can Summarise Unread Conversations

  Gemini capabilities were introduced in Google Chat on Monday. The Google Hangouts successor is now getting the artificial intelligence (AI) summaries feature for unread conversations. The feature is being rolled out to the Workspace users who have one of the Gemini add-ons. Notably, Gemini in Google Chat will be available on Android, iOS, as well a...

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  Google Chat Rolls Out Video Messaging Feature and Transcription Capabilities for Voice Messages

  Google has announced new Workspace updates for its messaging platform Google Chat. These features, which include video messaging capability, are aimed at improving the communication between users, saving time and making it more effective. The company also builds upon the voice messaging feature that it introduced earlier this year on Google Chat by...

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  Google Docs Gets New ‘Document Tabs’ Feature to Help You Organise Your Doc Files Better

  First announced at its Cloud Next 2024 event, Google is now bringing its document tabs feature for Google Docs users. The feature basically lets Google Docs users add tabs to their word or doc files being edited on the online web app, that lets them better organise their docs files into several parts just like the tabs feature in Google Sheets.