Galaxy S21 Getting Fast-Tracked; Might Even Launch in 2020: Report Originally expected to be unveiled early next year, Samsung’s upcoming flagship smartphone, theGalaxy S21, might even be launched this year. That’s according to a new report out of South Korea, which claims that Samsung may be looking to launch the Galaxy S21 much earlier than usual in what would be a major departure from the norm of the company. The report from South Korean publication,MTN, claims that key Galaxy S21 components will enter mass production next month – a full six weeks earlier than expected – leading to speculations that the company might be considering the possibility of launching its next-gen flagship smartphone this year to offset disappointing sales of its current flagships amidst the pandemic and associated economic uncertainties....

Google Hangouts to Shut down next Year; Will Be Replaced by Google Chat There is no hiding the fact that Google’s messaging stack is a disaster. You haveMeet, Chat,Hangouts, andDuoto serve different purposes and cater to different audiences. Due to the pandemic, Googleopened upits video conferencing app, Meet, to everyone for free earlier this year. And now, Google Chat will also get the same treatment as the company plans to phase out Hangouts starting next year....

Google Maps Will Now Show How Busy a Place Is in Real-Time During theCOVID-19pandemic, the precautions you need to take to curb the spread is regularly washing hands,wearing a mask, and maintaining a safe distance from others. Well, Google Maps will help you with one of these by now telling you how busy a place or business is when you go out. Google calls itbusyness updatesand has offered the feature for a few years now....

Google Now Lets You Hum to Find Songs Remembering songs that are stuck in your head is arguably one of the most underrated pleasures in life. While there are a lot of services to help youfind songs that are playing in the background, only a few of them such as SoundHound support the possibility of recognizing tracks just by humming or whistling them out loud. Well, Google is finally catching up and at itsSearch On event, the companyannouncedsupport for ‘hum to search’....

Google Search Will Soon Show AR Cars Right in Your Living Room Google has long offered users the ability to view 3D AR models of animals via Google Search on compatible phones. At itsSearch Onevent, the companyexpanded this feature to support AR models of cars, along with improvements to Google Lens. The feature will be convenient for users who are interested to check out the latest cars.“When you can’t go into stores to check out a product up close, AR can bring the showroom to you....

Google Sheets Gets AI-Based ‘Smart Fill’ Feature to Autocomplete Data Entries In keeping with anannouncementfrom earlier this year,Google Sheetshas introduced a new ‘Smart Fill‘ feature that the company claims can detect and learn patterns between columns to intelligently autocomplete data entries. The technology behind the AI-based feature is similar to the one that’s used forSmart Composein Gmail to predict what the user will write next, but the algorithm is tweaked in this case to make data entry faster and more effortless....

iPhone 12 Geekbench Results Show Modest Performance Gains over iPhone 11 Just a couple of days after theiPhone 12 lineupwas made official, multiple listings, purportedly of the new devices, havepopped upon Geekbench, suggesting minor performance improvements over the iPhone 11-series. The benchmarks also show that the iPhone 12 comes with 4GB of RAM like last year’s iPhone 11, while the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max have 6GB. The results seem to bear outrecent reportsthat also claimed as much....