Jurang Tayo

Senin, 01 April 2019

Gmail can schedule messages to send them at a better time - Engadget

Google is marking Gmail's 15th birthday (yes, April 1st) with some genuinely useful additions rather than pranks. To start, it's introducing an option to schedule sending your messages so that they'll arrive at a better time. If you need to write a company message late at night but would rather not bug a coworker off-hours, you can delay the email until your colleague is back in the office.

Smart Compose is also learning to adapt to your personal style. The AI-guided feature now knows how to recognize your usual greetings -- if you open with a "hey" or "hello," you won't have to repeat yourself every time. The feature can also suggest subject lines based on the body text. And while the expansion technically started earlier in March, Google has confirmed that Smart Compose is now available on Android beyond the Pixel 3 (iOS is coming soon) and works in French, Italian, Portugese and Spanish.

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/01/gmail-smart-compose-and-scheduled-email/

2019-04-01 10:41:42Z
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Gmail adds email scheduling and Smart Compose improvements - The Verge

Gmail turns 15 today, and to celebrate Google is launching some minor updates: improving Gmail’s Smart Compose function and giving users the option to schedule emails.

The updates to Smart Compose are pretty vague. Google unveiled the feature back in May 2018, which suggests ways to finish sentences in emails. The updated version, says Google, “can now adapt to the way you write,” matching your individual writing style.

Google says this might mean Smart Compose remembers your preferred way to greet certain colleagues (eg “Hey Team”), but doesn’t offer more detail than that. In addition, Smart Compose will now also suggest subject lines based on the body of your email.

Google says Smart Compose has saved people from typing “over 1 billion characters each week” on the web, and that the feature will now be available on Android devices (something it announced earlier this month) and coming to iOS devices “soon.”

A more straightforward update to Gmail is the new ability to schedule messages. Clicking an arrow next to the “Send” button in the compose window will bring up this scheduler. You can choose from presets like “tomorrow morning” or specify a particular time and date.

You could previously schedule emails on Gmail through third-party extensions, but it’s much more convenient to have power built directly in to the client. It’s handy for communicating across time-zones or setting up reminders for friends and family.

They’re minor updates, sure, but decent reminders of why Gmail remains so popular 15 years after its launch.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18290065/gmail-scheduling-email-smart-compose-improvements-announced

2019-04-01 10:37:28Z
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Gmail can schedule messages to send them at a better time - Engadget

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/01/gmail-smart-compose-and-scheduled-email/

2019-04-01 10:01:24Z
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Google adds Snake to Maps for April Fools' Day gag - CNET

Remember Snake? It's back -- in Google Maps form!

Snake, the iconic Nokia game first introduced on the Nokia 6110 in 1997, has been reimagined for Google Maps in celebration of April Fool's Day. You can play it on iOS and Android versions of the Google Maps app. Just touch the sidebar option on the left side of the search bar and you'll see the "Play Snake" option.

There's no actual snake this time, instead you play as a public transport vehicle, like a Tokyo bullet train, San Francisco cable car or a London double decker bus, and pickup passengers on an 8-bit map of their respective cities.

There are six cities to chose from: Cairo, São Paulo, London, Sydney, San Francisco, Tokyo. There's also a "World" option, where you pick up passengers from all over the map.

Snake will be playable in Google Maps for roughly a week, a Google spokesperson told CNET, although the tech giant did set up a dedicated site for it.

Google loves a good April Fool's gag. The company "announced" a NES-inspired 8-bit Google Maps in 2012, added a Pac-Man game to Maps in 2015 and a Where's Waldo search last year. These are only a few of the Google Maps-related examples. The entire list is much more exhaustive.

Keen to see more April Fools' Day gags? Head here for a comprehensive list. Hate April Fools' Day with the fury of a thousand suns? Head here instead!

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https://www.cnet.com/news/google-adds-snake-game-to-maps-apps-for-april-fools-day-gag/

2019-04-01 08:53:00Z
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Apple AirPods are still the best-selling true wireless earbuds - Engadget

If you can barely even recall the days when people mocked the AirPods because they look just like their wired brethren, we don't blame you. They've shot up in popularity over the past couple of years, and according to new findings by Counterpoint Research, they're still the dominant true wireless earbuds available despite a couple shifts in the market. According to Counterpoint's estimates, 12.5 million wireless headphones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2018, and Apple was responsible for most of them: the tech giant held a 60 percent market share.

That's an impressive performance, seeing as a number of mid-tier brands have started gaining a bigger part of the market that quarter, as well. Even in Apple's home turf, where the AirPods remain the top-selling model, Korean and Danish brands Samsung and Jabra are performing well. Cupertino's shares are relatively lower in China compared to other regions due to the growing presence of budget devices, as well.

The company is doing better in the rest of the Asia Pacific region, but the rise of new and more affordable brands is also affecting its performance. Apple probably did the worst in Europe, though, where it comparatively underperformed, where Jabra has a 14 percent share of the market and where a crop of new Western European brands has been eating away at more established companies' shares.

In addition to new and mid-tier brands gaining more and more popularity, another factor that had a negative impact on Apple's performance is the customers themselves. Some of those looking to get a pair of AirPods chose to wait for the new version, which popped up ahead of its big iPad and services launch in March.

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/01/apple-airpods-best-selling-true-wireless-earbuds/

2019-04-01 06:41:50Z
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Facebook’s News Feed is starting to explain itself - The Verge

Facebook has announced a new feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” which allows you to see information about why a specific post has appeared on your News Feed from within the Facebook app. The new option was announced on Sunday and is an expansion of an existing feature Facebook already provides for ads. As well as seeing why a post has appeared, it will also give you control over how often you see posts like it in the future.

You can access the new option by using the drop-down menu in the top right of the post. Once opened, you’ll be shown Facebook’s logic for why it thought you might want to see a post. This could include the amount of times you’ve interacted with the post’s author in the past, the types of posts you tend to interact with (such as photos or videos), and the overall popularity of the post itself.

As well as explaining why your News Feed is showing you a certain post, the new feature will also give you shortcuts to tools that control whether you see posts like it again in the future. These include See First and Unfollow options, as well as linking to your News Feed Preferences.

The service’s existing “Why am I seeing this ad?” feature is also being updated as part of the changes. Facebook already gives you basic information about how its ads have been targeted towards you by, for example, telling you that an advertiser has chosen to target individuals of your age and gender. Now you’ll see additional details such as whether the advertiser has uploaded a mailing list with your email address in it.

We’ve long argued that Facebook’s News Feed needs to start explaining itself if the service is ever to regain the trust of its users, and these new options are an important step in that direction. However, it doesn’t fix the more fundamental problems with the service such as the the “filter bubble,” the idea that personalization tools from companies like Facebook and Google have isolated us from opposing viewpoints — it only explains how it’s created.

The changes are rolling out starting this week, and are expected to be available to all users by the middle of May.

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https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18290195/facebooks-news-feed-why-am-i-seeing-this-post-ad-context-interaction

2019-04-01 08:16:52Z
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Apple AirPods are still the best-selling true wireless earbuds - Engadget

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2019-04-01 06:31:16Z
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