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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A company called Google just released a new chat app… Wait — scratch that. We’ve all heard it before. Many times. But stick with me for a sec, ’cause we need ...

With people practicing social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic Google's latest effort to boost video-conference capabilities brings group calling on its Duo app to the web. Duo, which ...

In June, Google told us that it would start merging its Duo video chat service for consumers with Meet, its Zoom competitor for business users. The next phase of this merger starts today. Merging two ...

I get annoyed by all the jokes people make about Google killing things willy-nilly. I think that’s because I’m so deep into the ecosystem that these kinds of changes usually directly affect me. Google ...

Google is officially kicking off the merger of its two video chat apps, Google Meet and Google Duo. Google announced the merger in June, with the plan to keep the Google Meet brand name while merging ...

Family Mode on Google's video chat app allows participants to illustrate on-screen and share special effects to entertain others. Google is adding another batch of capabilities to its video chat app ...

Google today launched an update to its Duo video chat app (which you definitely shouldn’t confuse with Hangouts or Google Meet, Google’s other video, audio and text chat apps). There are plenty of ...

Tap the sparkle icon during a video chat to try the Duo-style features. We're all sick of video calls by now, so Google Meet is spicing things up with new filters, effects, and augmented reality masks ...