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2024 Google began showing only public holidays and national observances as default Calendar events, removing observances like Pride Month and Black History Month.
October 1 2024 Google Japan created the Gboard Double-Sided Version, a keyboard uniquely shaped like a Möbius Strip, featuring a two-sided design.
October 1 2024 Google Japan created the Gboard Double-Sided Version, a keyboard uniquely shaped like a Möbius Strip, featuring a two-sided design.
March 9 2024 Samsung Smart TV compatibility for Google Meet was discontinued
December 2023 Google began rolling out a version of Google Chat with a redesigned sidebar, updated logo, and integrated artificial intelligence to improve productivity.
October 1 2023 Google Japan introduced the Gboard CAPS, a large key-shaped hat where users can select letters by rotating and transmit a keypress by pressing down on the hat.
October 1 2023 Google Japan introduced the Gboard CAPS, a large key-shaped hat where users can select letters by rotating and transmit a keypress by pressing down on the hat.
July 2023 Google added new features to Google Chat, including smart compose, message editing and deletion for consumer accounts, message quoting, read receipts, text hyperlinking, and the ability to hide inactive conversations and add apps from Google Workspace Marketplace.
July 5 2023 Google Currents was shut down, which will lead to increased functionality for Spaces.
2022 Google Meet launched compatibility with Android TV, replacing the Google Duo app
November 1 2022 Google deprecated the original Hangouts and fully replaced it with Google Chat.
November 1 2022 Google Meet replaces Google Duo, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet and the original Meet app to be phased out.
October 18 2022 Google Meet offered compatibility with Samsung Smart TV
October 1 2022 Google Japan released the Gboard Bar Version, an extraordinary single-row keyboard that spans 5.25 feet in length.
October 1 2022 Google Japan released the Gboard Bar Version, an extraordinary single-row keyboard that spans 5.25 feet in length.
September 2022 Google announced that all Hangouts data would be deleted by January 1, 2023.
September 20 2022 Google announced the merger of reminders from Google Calendar and Google Assistant with Google Tasks.
August 2022 The merger of Duo into Meet began, with the Duo mobile app being renamed Meet, and the Duo web app redirecting to the Google Meet web app.
June 2022 Google announced the merger of Google Duo into Meet.
May 2022 Google announced that Chat would display banners warning users against potential phishing and malware attacks from personal accounts, enhancing user security.
February 2022 Google rolled out a new Gmail interface designed to better integrate Spaces, Chat, and Meet.
February 2022 Google announced plans to begin the final migration of all Google Workspace customers from Google Hangouts to Google Chat, scheduled to be finalized in May 2022.
January 2022 Google removed the temporarily extended advanced features for educators and workspace users, requiring a subscription to access premium features.
2021 Google rebranded Rooms to Spaces as part of the expansion of Google Workspace to all users, reviving a brand name previously used from 2016 to 2017.
October 1 2021 Google Japan resumed its annual tradition of creating novelty keyboards with the Gboard Yunomi, a keyboard designed in the form of a traditional Japanese teacup with keycaps representing traditional sushi fish.
October 1 2021 Google Japan resumed its annual tradition of creating novelty keyboards with the Gboard Yunomi, a keyboard designed in the form of a traditional Japanese teacup with keycaps representing traditional sushi fish.
August 2021 Google started automatically signing out Google Hangouts users on iOS and Android, encouraging them to switch to Google Chat.
April 2021 Google Chat became fully available to general consumers.
February 2021 Google began rolling out Google Chat in 'early access' to regular consumer accounts.
February 2021 Google introduced 'Lyra', a new very low-bitrate codec for speech compression that can operate with network speeds as low as 3 kbit/s, developed using machine learning models trained on thousands of hours of voice data.
October 2020 Google announced plans to open Google Chat to consumers in 2021 and migrate Hangouts conversations, contacts, and history to Google Chat.
September 15 2020 Google introduced Meet Series One in partnership with Lenovo, featuring a Meet Compute System with Edge TPU, Smart Camera, Smart Audio Bar with noise reduction, and options for remote control or a touchscreen with Google Assistant support.
May 2020 Asus unveiled videoconferencing hardware specifically designed for Google Meet, including a Meet Compute System mini PC, dedicated camera, and microphone for conference room settings.
April 2020 Google announced plans to support the AV1 video codec for Google Meet, expanding its video compression capabilities.
April 2020 During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google Meet experienced a dramatic growth, increasing user base by a factor of 30 and reaching 100 million daily users by April.
April 9 2020 Hangouts Chat was officially renamed to Google Chat.
April 1 2020 Google discontinued its annual April Fools' Day joke tradition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the end of nearly two decades of playful product hoaxes.
April 1 2020 Google canceled its annual April Fools' Day jokes for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead encouraging employees to focus on pandemic relief efforts.
April 1 2020 Google discontinued its annual April Fools' Day joke tradition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the end of nearly two decades of playful product hoaxes.
March 2020 Google temporarily extended advanced Google Meet features to all Google Workspace and G Suite for Education users during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 2020 Google rolled out Google Meet to personal (free) Google accounts, expanding the service's accessibility to individual users.
October 2019 Google first announced their plan to begin retiring Google Hangouts.
May 2019 The Competition Commission of India initiated an antitrust probe against Google, alleging abuse of Android market dominance through mandatory pre-installation of Google Mobile Services (GMS) suite under Mobile Application Distribution Agreements (MADA), which was deemed an unfair condition on device manufacturers.
April 1 2019 Google Japan released an April Fools' Day joke featuring a 'Gboard Spoon Bending' technology, presenting a smart spoon that allegedly allows users to type Japanese characters by bending it. The fictional invention claimed to provide effortless typing in any location and hinted at future bending technologies like a fishing rod version and a telepathic spoon.
April 1 2019 Google Japan released an April Fools' Day joke featuring a 'Gboard Spoon Bending' technology, presenting a smart spoon that allegedly allows users to type Japanese characters by bending it. The fictional invention claimed to provide effortless typing in any location and hinted at future bending technologies like a fishing rod version and a telepathic spoon.
2018 At Google I/O, Google announced a real Morse code input feature for mobile keyboards, inspired by the earlier Gmail Tap joke, and highlighted the work of Tania Finlayson in developing the accessibility feature.
2018 At Google I/O, Google announced a real Morse code input feature for mobile keyboards, inspired by the earlier Gmail Tap joke, and highlighted the work of Tania Finlayson in developing the accessibility feature.
July 18 2018 The European Commission fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules, leading to a significant change in Google Mobile Services (GMS) licensing policy in the European Economic Area (EEA). As a result, GMS was decoupled from the base Android operating system and will now be offered under a separate paid licensing agreement.
2017 Google announced a fictional datacenter expansion to Mars called 'Ziggy Stardust', which included a playful Google Street View tour of the imaginary Mars location for Google Cloud Platform as an April Fools' Day joke.
2017 Google announced a fictional datacenter expansion to Mars called 'Ziggy Stardust', which included a playful Google Street View tour of the imaginary Mars location for Google Cloud Platform as an April Fools' Day joke.

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