Weekly Update - August 27, 2016: Nougat, Nexus, Alive As Well As More

The big intelligence this week: Android 7.0 Nougat started rolling out. Plus Nexus devices volition instruct WiFi Assistant - formerly a Project Fi-only feature.

Plus at that spot are tips together with updates for YouTube video watchers, alive streamers, photographers, trouble organisation owners, webmasters, Hangouts chatters, Project Fi-ers together with more.

Image: Happy 100th birthday U.S.A. National Park Service! Check out the 360-degree views of National Parks at Google Arts & Culture. The postal service picture is from a United Airlines poster (no known copyright restrictions) uploaded to Flickr yesteryear the San Diego Air & Space Museum.

Upcoming:

• 29 August: Comments on mortal YouTube videos are going away
• 31 August: New Hangouts Chrome extension experience
• 6 September: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours inward English
• 7 September: Google+ Collections #FeatureFriday rival deadline: Connect amongst nature
• 9 September: Google Webmaster Central Office Hours inward English
• 12 September: Hangouts on Air deed from Google+ to YouTube

YouTube together with Video Creation

• Update YouTube gets an update for the big screen: Chromecast, Smart TV, game consoles brand content easier to abide by (Engadget)
• Update Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (my weblog post)
• Tip Control YouTube playback amongst OK Google Voice Commands (Android Police)
• Tip What happens to your video afterwards you lot upload to YouTube? (Nat together with Lo)
• Tip What happens when you lot sentinel a YouTube video? (Nat together with Lo)
• Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (Did The NY Times Give Up Its Journalism Standards The Second Facebook Threw Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Few Million Its Way? (Techdirt)

Google+ together with Spaces

• Google+ Collections #FeatureFriday contest: Connect amongst nature (Faith Tan) 
• Tip Use Google+ Communities to engage your customers together with clients (Google for Work)
• Update Spaces Chrome Extension 2.0 (Luke Wroblewski)

Other social media

• New PInstagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine (New York Times)

Google Photos together with Mobile Photography

• Tip The history of photography inward five animated minutes (COOPH)
• Tip Google Photos vs Apple Photos: which is better? (Gizmodo)

Google for businesses

• Finding Hogwarts on Google Search together with Maps (Wsaweb)
• When Google's Picks a Mugshot over a Business Logo (Online Ownership)
• Instagram Launching Live “Events” Video Channel (Consumerist)
• Tip YouTube Partners together with AdSense Publishers: brand certain your content is Advertiser-Friendly! (my weblog post)

Hangouts together with Messaging

• New Hangouts Chrome extension sense coming August 31 (Google Apps Updates)
• Google Duo has been downloaded five i thou 1000 times on Android since its release (Android Police)
• Tip Hangouts chat Easter Eggs (Moritz Tolxdorff)
• Update WhatsApp's novel damage allow them part your information amongst Facebook - you lot accept xxx days to (partially) opt out (Wired)

Nexus, Android, Project Fi

• New Nexus update: WiFi Assistant automatically together with securely connections to complimentary opened upwards wifi hotspots (Nexus)
• Google extends Project Fi Wi-Fi engineering scientific discipline to Nexus devices (CNET)
• New Android 7.0 Nougat launched, coming to Project Fi devices shortly (Android blog, Project Fi)
• Android Nougat drops back upwards for Nexus five together with 2013 Nexus 7 (Ars Technica)
• Tip The coolest features of Android Nougat you lot powerfulness accept missed (Lifehacker)
• Tip SpyNote malware: One to a greater extent than argue to never sideload Android apps (TechRepublic)
• Update Project Fi update (Version K): in-app chat back upwards (Project Fi)
• Update Tracking your international information usage amongst Project Fi (Project Fi)

Productivity

• Update Google Drive for Android right away creates file together with folder shortcuts (Google Apps Updates)
• Update Google URL shortener sees major redesign (David King)
• New Microsoft acquires automated coming together scheduling app Genee (The Next Web)
• Tip How to practice citations together with bibliography inward Google Docs (or whatever discussion processor) (Plagiarism Today)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links