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Bring your blurry, noisy shots back to life with these new editing tools in Google Photos

Sharpen and denoise are now available in the app

Google Photos continues to be the best cloud backup service around for storing and sharing all of your memories. Even as we approach the end of its unlimited high-quality tier, new features like automated slideshows continue to make it a must-have app on Android. To help make your photos look that much better, Google has added some new editing tools to reduce noise levels and bring out the detail in softened pictures.

Bring your blurry, noisy shots back to life with these new editing tools in Google Photos was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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I got into the Diablo Immortals closed alpha — here's an hour of gameplay

So far the game is pretty good

Earlier this week Diablo Immortal entered into a closed alpha test in Australia, and I've managed to gain access to this alpha and so I've recorded an hour-long gameplay video at 1080p/60FPS so everyone can see how it currently plays. This video shows off all of the selectable characters, the game's settings, and offers plenty of gameplay as the Crusader. While Blizzard is adamant that Diablo Immortal is still a work in progress, since the current alpha is limited to Australia I figured those around the rest of the world might want to see how development is moving forward.

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YouTube Kids continues its international spread

The app is now available in Turkey

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Turkey gets YouTube Kids

YouTube Kids has proven to be a popular way for parents to give their children access to a limited collection of YouTube content, even if that collection occasionally includes videos depicting suicide and cannibalism (oops!). The service has slowly been expanding its global reach, and now Google has added 11 more nations to the availability list.

According to Google support documents, YouTube Kids has just become available in 11 more countries, all located in Central and South America.

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13 temporarily free and 51 on-sale apps and games for Friday

Don't miss out on the sales for Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Hidden Through Time, and unmemory

Welcome to Friday, everyone. It's almost the weekend, so it's time to check out all of the app and game sales currently available on the Google Play Store. I have a few standouts today, including Battle Chasers: Nightwar, which is an awesome RPG. Next I have Hidden Through Time, a quality hidden object game. Last but not least is unmemory, a puzzle game that focuses on literature and the act of reading.

13 temporarily free and 51 on-sale apps and games for Friday was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Samsung Good Lock module Home Up regains missing features

A new module is on the way too

When Samsung refreshed Good Lock for Android 11 a few months ago, Home Up and Task Changer were merged, with the latter losing several styles in the process. Today Samsung updated the module once again, restoring many of the old themes and adding some useful new features.

Left: Split-screen shortcut, Right: Split-screen selection UI

If you look at the bottom left of the overview screen, you'll see a small button with a 3x3 grid inside.

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Here’s how to stop Twitter from compressing your images

Potato pictures no more

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Twitter has officially confirmed that all users can now upload and view images in 4K. To do so, you’ll need to update the high-quality image preferences in Data usage settings

Twitter is notorious for compressing images and videos, and it isn't surprising to see photos shot from professional cameras retain little detail when shared on the platform. However, last year, the iOS app was given the ability to load images in "4K."

Here’s how to stop Twitter from compressing your images was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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WhatsApp beta gets playback speed options for voice messages

"OMG gimme" - Rita

Some people speak faster than others. Some listen faster than others. If the discrepancy gets on your nerves, specifically when you're listening to a voice message someone left you in WhatsApp, you might want to hop on the beta channel. The option to increase playback speed (as seen in some podcast managers) is now rolling out to beta users.

The updated feature was spotted and recorded by several different users and confirmed by third parties, using a build of the app retrieved from the standard Play Store beta channel.

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YouTube mobile app gets more exhaustive video quality controls

The new options are rolling out widely

YouTube is the most popular video streaming app in the world, and a lot of us depend on it for our daily dose of news and entertainment. However, not everyone has the same preferences or needs when deciding the streaming quality of videos. With this in mind, YouTube is rolling out a more exhaustive set of streaming quality controls that will let you tailor your viewing experience.

Until now, we've only had the option to individually select the streaming quality or choose Auto, which automatically changes the quality depending on the speed of the internet connection.

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