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TECH T@LK

Google is set to enable cross- Revisit your musical choices

device notifications to resume one year from now with new

media playback seamlessly Spotify feature

oogle recently announced a spam caller” label soon, as per US- usic app Spotify has The feature shall be available
new feature for Spotify Con- based tech portal 9to5google. brought out yet another starting today in 27 markets, which
Gnect-compatible devices. The label shall appear both on Mnew feature for users to go include Australia, Argentina, Bra-
According to a report by US- the caller screen and in the history list down a nostalgia trip. zil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech
based tech portal TechCrunch, the of callers. On the caller screen, the Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France,
search giant has been working on message would appear underneath According to a report by US-based Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan,
cross-device notifications, to let users the phone number, with the caller’s tech portal TechCrunch, the mu- Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand,
resume any media on the move. The avatar also changing accordingly. sic service launched a new in-app Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Sau-
motive behind this feature is that one Google also updated the camera di Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey,
can begin playing a podcast or playlist, app on its mobile phone device Pixel 7 experience called ‘Playlist in a U.A.E., U.K. and the U.S., as per
and subsequently resume playing it on Pro which allowed users to have more Bottle’, which will capture users’ TechCrunch.
the phone or TV. control over its macro mode. current musical tastes and revisit It is available for both free and
At present, this cross-device fea- According to The Verge, an them after a year. premium users of the streaming app
ture shall incorporate YouTube Music American technology news website, across iOS and Android devices.
and Spotify, as per TechCrunch. the new update adds a toggle that lets On Wednesday, the streaming Earlier, the streaming platform
Google said that it uses a combi- users manually turn the macro mode platform announced that the brand- launched ‘New Year’s Hub’, a one-
nation of signals like Bluetooth Low off or on instead of having to rely on new experience feature will help us- stop spot for users to access their
Energy, Wi-Fi and ultra-wideband the auto mode. While the phone can ers capture the moment by the time favourite party tunes contained in
(UWB) for device identification. still try to detect if you’re close enough January 2024 arrives. This feature a number of playlists. Some special
Earlier, the incoming call screen to a subject like it has since launch, it’s shall only last till January 31, after numbers were also included from a
of the search engine’s own telephone nice for there to be an actual menu for which users would no longer be able host of pop artists like Celine Dion
service is to receive a “Suspected those who want finer-grain control. to create a ‘Playlist in a Bottle’. and Charli XCX.

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