Fri. 02/12 – Google Adds Pixel-Exclusive Photo Editing Features To Google Photos

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🗓️ 12 February 2021

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Google adds some photo editing features to Google Photos that maybe points to a larger subscription play. Is Apple’s new AR app for TV+ a sign of things to come? Disney+ numbers are amazing. Apple Watch estimated numbers are impressive. And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Oracle.com/goto/ride TinyCapital.com Links: Google Photos gets new paywalled editing features for Google One subscribers (The Verge) First Apple TV+ AR app launches with ‘For All Mankind’ backstory through mixed reality (9to5Mac) Disney says it now has 94.9 million Disney+ subscribers (CNBC) Apple Watch Is Now Worn on 100 Million Wrists (Above Avalon) Bumble stock closes up 63% after soaring in market debut (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Beginner's Guide (Decrypt) 20 years of orange cones: The history of VLC (Protocol) N.Y.’s Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50. (NYTimes) Cadillac Super Cruise Review: Better Than Tesla’s Autopilot (MotorTrend) Chip Shortage Spirals Beyond Cars to Phones and Consoles (Bloomberg | Quint) HOW SONY DESIGNED THE PS5’S ULTIMATE EASTER EGG (The Verge) Who Really Created the Marvel Universe? (The New Yorker) Listen to this weekend's Interesting Raise Episode by signing up right here: tech.supercast.tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, February 12th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.4	Today, Google adds some photo editing features to Google Photos that maybe points to a larger
0:15.4	subscription play is Apple's new AR app for TV Plus a sign of things to come there as well.
0:21.6	Disney Plus numbers are amazing Apple Watch estimated
0:25.0	numbers are impressive and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
0:28.7	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Google has added some of its vaunted
0:37.1	pixel exclusive photo editing features to Google photos
0:40.3	for all Android users, but there is a catch. These new features are paywalled behind an existing
0:47.1	subscription to Google One, quoting the Verge.
0:51.4	The Paywalled editing features have been rumored for some time but today marks the official announcement of the new program. Specifically, Google is offering some of its more recent machine learning powered editing tools like its enhanced photo blur, portrait light, and color pop features
1:06.6	that it started offering alongside the Pixel 5 last fall to a broader audience.
1:11.3	As Google clarified to the verge when the
1:13.6	Paywell was first discovered the company isn't taking away existing
1:17.1	versions of features like Portrait Blur or Color Pop from free Google
1:20.7	photo users, the current iteration of those features which work with newer photos
1:24.9	that offer depth data such as Portrait Mode Shot will still work for everyone. But the new
1:30.4	Pixel and subscription only version promises to take things a step further and allows
1:35.8	users to apply those effects through the power of machine learning to older photos that don't
1:40.9	have that existing depth data.
1:43.3	Pixel users will still get access to the features for free
1:46.1	whether or not they subscribe to Google One.
1:49.0	Along with the new editing features,
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