A new option in Google Meet lets participants set timers that will be visible to all meeting participants, ideally helping meetings stay trim.

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Along with playing music and controlling many smart home products, you can use the Google Nest Hub alarm clock features to set alarms or timers. Here's how to use this feature to keep track and make ...

Did you know you can use Google search as a timer? The feature was available late last year then disappeared, but is now back. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering ...

Android TV includes a basic framework for sleep timers, but it's hardly a handy experience at the moment. Updates to the Google TV Home app signal that Google will expand sleep timer functionality ...

There are plenty of useful commands to use on Google Assistant devices, with everything from setting timers to launching music. But for many lately, Google Assistant sleep timers for stopping music ...

Google Search has long featured a collection of simple tools, but the stopwatch and timer have mysteriously disappeared in the past day or so. Original 7/22: Searching for those terms today just ...

The stock Android TV software includes a sleep timer, but it's buried in menus and doesn't offer much functionality. A code review of an upcoming Google TV update suggests a more convenient, ...

As quietly as it seemingly went away, Google Search's timer seems to have come back without much of a whisper. Okay, someone did say something about it this week. You ...

Parth, the digital nerd, dances between the realms of Android and iPhone like a tech-savvy tango. With a keyboard as his compass, he navigates the binary seas, uncovering hidden gems and unraveling ...

Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years. He has reviewed smartphones for Pocketnow and Android Authority and loves building stuff on his YouTube channel, MOD. He has a dangerous ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. The non-removable At a Glance widget on the main screen of Google Pixel phones has quickly gone from an ...