Sustainable living tips for life at home

At Google, sustainability starts at home. We strive to build sustainability into everything we do. Today, we shared that we matched 100% of our energy use with renewable energy purchases for the third year in a row. On Earth Day and every day, we are committed to helping everyone build a more sustainable world, and part of that means making it easier for everyone to make environmentally friendly choices. According to Google Trends, over the past 90 days search interest in “How to live a sustainable lifestyle” has increased by more than 4,550%. To celebrate Earth Day while many of us are finding our new normal while sheltering in place, I wanted to share some of my favorite simple sustainability tips.

Save the planet, save some money

If I told you that putting your groceries away in the right place, freezing your leftovers, using the dishwasher (instead of washing dishes by hand) and turning down your water heater just a few degrees could help protect the environment, you might think that sounds too simple. But our greatest impact on the planet comes from just three things: food, water and energy usage. If we each make a few small changes, we can all make a big difference (and save money while we’re at it). Our Your Plan, Your Planet tool has more simple tips you can use in your home.

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Advice from Nest and Assistant


Nest Thermostat owners have saved over 50 billion kilowatt hours of energy since we first introduced the device, which comes to $3 billion in energy bill savings. In honor of Earth Day, the Google Assistant can help you save even more. Just say “Hey Google, give me an Earth Day tip” for simple ways you can save energy, like changing the temperature on your Nest Thermostat by just a few degrees until the leaf symbol pops up, so you know you’re saving energy.


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Get the buzz on bees from today’s Doodle

See what all the buzz is about in today’s interactive Earth Day Doodle, made in collaboration with The Honeybee Conservancy. Guide your bee to pollinate flowers while learning fun facts about bees and how they help the planet. Even while social distancing, there are several things you can do to help, like supporting your local beekeeper, planting a pollinator garden or creating a bee bath.


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A little “how to” help 

Recently, we’ve seen a spike in “how to” sustainability queries related to food, recycling and composting. If you’re in the U.S. or Canada, you can ask your Google Assistant how to recycle specific items and you’ll get local city and town specific answers. You can also check out our curated YouTube Earth Day playlist where you can learn how to compost, fix old clothing or turn those leftovers into a new meal. 

“How to freeze” has been a particular popular question. Here are a few of the answers I found particularly helpful:

  1. How to freeze milk? Place the milk in your freezer in its original plastic container or glass freezer-safe container. Make sure to leave room to allow the milk to expand, so remove some milk if needed. When you're ready to use the frozen milk, allow it to thaw in the fridge.

  2. How to freeze eggs? To freeze whole eggs, you simply mix the eggs together and pour the mixture into either an ice cube tray, or a freezer-safe container or bag. If you will need to use individual eggs, it would make more sense to make sure each ice cube tray holds only one egg so that you can easily separate them.

  3. How to freeze broccoli? Broccoli—florets and stems—must be blanched for effective freezing. If you freeze it raw, you'll wind up with bitter, drab green, shriveled stems. Blanching or steaming preserves the bright green color and tasty flavor. You can either blanch in boiling water for three minutes or steam for five minutes.

Enjoying planet Earth from wherever you are 

With travel plans paused, national parks temporarily closed and a collective effort to stay socially distant, the world feels a bit out of reach right now. While there’s no substitute for the real thing, virtual vacations are a great way to experience our planet from wherever you are sheltering in place using Google Earth. 

If you’re seeking natural beauty, explore the most enchanting forests, striking waterfalls, or unusual lakes around the globe. For those interested in the other creatures that share our planet, learn about the kākāpō, sea turtles or humpback whales. For anyone interested in a more scientific journey, learn about the ecosystems of the world, understand the impact of keystone species on their habitats, or learn how to be a scientist in your backyard—all you need is your smartphone.

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I hope these tips are an easy way to get started. At Google, we know that individual actions collectively can make a big difference, and we’re happy to support everyone on their journey to a more sustainable life.

This National Film Day, celebrate Canadian film and talent on YouTube

Editor’s note: Today’s post is guest co-authored by Jack Blum, Executive Director of REEL CANADA and Sharon Corder, Artistic Director of REEL CANADA 

This National Canadian Film Day, we’re celebrating the rich history of Canadian cinematic culture with an interactive broadcast livestream on YouTube.

On April 22, from 6-10 PM ET, visit our YouTube channel to hear from and engage with popular Canadian filmmakers and industry professionals. We’ll be joined by talented performers like Sandra Oh, Jay Baruchel, Megan Follows, Colm Feore and Don McKellar, Oscar-nominated directors like Atom Egoyan, Deepa Mehta, and Philippe Falardeau, and even a celebrated American who has appeared in more than one fine Canadian movie, Ethan Hawke.

As our industry faces a historically unprecedented shutdown, it’s more important than ever to celebrate great Canadian stories, and the hundreds of thousands of talented artists and craftspeople who make them. Our stories keep us company. They reflect our shared values, our magnificent diversity, and our precious freedoms.

Tune in to a curated ‘Stay Home and Watch ?? #WithMe’ playlist on YouTube Canada’s channel featuring homegrown classics, including cult favourite Strange Brew, dark crime comedy Bon Cop/Bad Cop and more. Encore+ is also serving up some iconic films in both English and French.

Film is an incredibly powerful medium that has the power to capture the soul of our nation -- we’re so happy we can bring Canadians together on YouTube to watch the very best of Canadian cinema.

Whether you’re planning to join one of our national virtual watch parties, organize your own, or just watch a movie at home, you can learn more about how to celebrate #CanFilmDay on our website.

This National Canadian Film Day, let our stories keep you company.

Grow your skills with the Google Africa Developer Scholarships

We are pleased to announce the third round of Google Africa Developer Scholarships, as part of our commitment to create skills and economic opportunities for Africa. This builds on our 5-year engagement to help bridge the developer skills and opportunities gap in Africa by providing 100,000 African developers with access to high-quality, world-class training on mobile technologies and Cloud platforms. 

Today, we are announcing an additional 30,000 training scholarship opportunities and a further 1,000 grants for the Google Associate Android Developer and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications. The training will be delivered by our partners, Pluralsight and Andela, through an intensive curriculum designed to prepare learners for entry-level and intermediate roles as software developers.

Across Africa we continue to see developers who have successfully gone through the scholarship program grow their careers and also use their skills to benefit their communities. Boutheina Bouchahda, a middle-school teacher from Tunisia, went through the training program last year and is building an application for her students to teach them how to program. Boutheina credits the scholarship program for her skills and confidence growth. Ayeah Godlove Akoni from Cameroon completed the web development skills track and immediately got a job as a web developer. He is also one of the 1,000 developers across Africa who qualified for the developer certification grants. .

Throughout this journey, we have seen the value of peer-to-peer learning as a catalyst for deeper learning thanks to the in-person meetups facilitated by our community leads in multiple cities across Africa. Developers accepted into the scholarship will gain access to our network of over 250 Google Developer Groups and Developer Student Clubs in 150 cities across Africa. This connection to communities focused on Google technologies will provide access to extra skills and help inspire the next generation of software developers in Africa.

Please click here to apply for the scholarship.

Posted by John Kimani, Program Manager


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Boostez vos compétences grâce aux bourses d’études Google Africa destinées aux Développeurs

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la troisième série de bourses Google Africa destinées aux développeurs dans le cadre de notre engagement pour créer des compétences et des opportunités économiques pour l’Afrique. Cette initiative s’inscrit dans notre engagement sur cinq ans visant à combler le déficit de compétences et d’opportunités en Afrique dans le domaine du développement informatique, en permettant à 100 000 développeurs africains d’accéder à une formation de qualité de niveau international sur les technologies mobiles et les plateformes cloud.

Cette année, nous offrons 30 000 bourses d’études supplémentaires et 1 000 subventions en plus pour les programmes de certification Google Associate Android Developer et Associate Cloud Engineer. La formation sera dispensée par nos partenaires, Pluralsight et Andela sous forme de cours intensifs destinés à des étudiants souhaitant accéder à des postes de développeurs logiciels junior ou de niveau intermédiaire.

Dans toute l’Afrique, les exemples sont nombreux de développeurs qui ont suivi avec succès le programme de bourses d’études. Ces professionnels progressent dans leur carrière et utilisent également leurs compétences au profit de leur communauté. Boutheina Bouchahda, une enseignante de collège tunisienne, a suivi le programme de formation l’année dernière et a créé une application pour ses élèves afin de leur enseigner la programmation. Selon Boutheina, ce programme de bourse lui a permis de développer ses compétences et sa confiance en soi. Originaire du Cameroun, Ayeah Godlove Akoni a suivi le parcours de développement web et a immédiatement décroché un emploi de développeur web. Il fait également partie des 1 000 développeurs répartis dans l’ensemble du continent qui remplissent les conditions pour bénéficier du programme de bourses de certification destiné aux développeurs.

Tout au long de ce voyage, nous avons pu constater combien l’apprentissage entre pairs servait de catalyseur pour apporter une formation plus approfondie grâce aux rencontres individualisés mises en place par nos responsables communautaires dans de nombreuses villes d’Afrique. Les développeurs qui bénéficieront de cette bourse d’études auront accès à notre réseau de plus de 250 groupes de développeurs Google et clubs d’étudiants en développement informatique présents dans 150 villes d’Afrique. Ce lien avec les communautés, axé sur les technologies Google, permettra d’accéder à de nouvelles compétences et contribuera à inspirer la prochaine génération de développeurs de logiciels en Afrique.

Veuillez cliquer ici pour déposer une demande de bourse.

Publié par John Kimani, Directeur des programmes

Malou Aamund turns career advice into a popular novel

Malou Aamund is the Country Director for Google Denmark—a role that’s typically associated with sales strategy, not fiction writing. But she recently became the author of a new bestselling novel. 

Called Maria, it’s about two women who share the name. One of them chooses her family over everything else, only to find that she’s sacrificed and given away so much of herself that there’s nothing left of her own personality. The other Maria puts her career before everything and, in her determination to become a successful business leader, also loses herself.

“It’s about self help and personal development—this is fiction as a format for helping build your career,” Malou says. Typical career advice books—and there are plenty already—can be dry and detached. “I wanted to drive an experiment to see if you can get different emotions in people by putting this type of advice into fiction,” she says.

We (virtually) sat down with her to learn how her literary pursuits complement her day job—and vice versa.

How do you explain your job at a dinner party?

I’m responsible for all of Google’s business in Denmark, all the amazing things we’re doing with Grow with Google, and helping build small businesses. And I also work with many industries here in Denmark.

Your career has taken some strange detours—what are some of those?

The red thread has been that I’ve spent more than 20 years in tech at Microsoft, IBM and now Google. But along the way I also spent four years as a Member of Parliament in Denmark, representing the then-leading liberal party.

The idea of a political career started after I’d been on an international assignment in the U.S. for a few years. I got back to Denmark and thought, compared to the U.S., there was a standstill in our innovation agenda. As a business leader I could make recommendations, but what I really wanted was to take leadership and ownership. After I helped craft some policy reforms for the party, they asked if I’d be interested in running for office. And from there it was a wild and rewarding experience.

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What made you decide to write Maria?

It started 10 years ago. I was 15 years into my career, and was constantly seeing the same patterns when I was mentoring younger women. They felt there was a big personal cost for them to pursue their career dreams. It was disproportionate compared to how men felt at the same point in their own careers. I saw these amazingly talented women struggle with lower self confidence than men. I could see that in terms of how often women asked for a raise—they lacked the confidence to go in and demand what they deserved.

So I had the idea of creating a story where you had these two opposite personalities—one person who’s thinking so much about other people’s needs that she forgets herself, and the other who’s self-centered and opportunistic. They follow the same life pattern, but react very differently at life-changing moments. I wanted to empower women to have an emotional response to the story and think about how they would actually react.

Is it based on real people?

Not really, but based on a lot of observations throughout my career, along with data and research that I’ve read. We now have so many insights into the fact that women have lower self esteem and how that unfolds in their career. It’s the same research that we focus on in the #IamRemarkable initiative, a Google program to build self confidence in women. It’s becoming an amazing movement, a life-changing moment for women to go through.

What’s been the response to the book? 

I’ve been touring universities and leading career and book discussions. The most positive thing is that I’m seeing so many younger women embrace it, and really resonate with the characters’ problems and emotions.

There have also been a lot of parents who read the book first, and then give it to their adult children. As parents we all want to impart some values, and help our kids not make the same mistakes that we have. Here, parents can actually give moral advice in a fictional format.

Will Maria be translated into any other languages?

The publisher had planned to bring it to the London Book Fair, which is now cancelled due to COVID-19. But they are actively working on bringing it to other countries and languages.

Who has been a strong female influence in your life?

One of the highest ranking female executives in IBM was my mentor when I was pregnant with my second daughter. She asked me to join her team when I was six months pregnant, and showed a very courageous and progressive view on female talent, and took a personal bet on me. She is still a great support and a good friend. 

What advice do you have for women starting out in their careers? 

Choose the right partner. I have many girlfriends whose careers are not as highly prioritized as their partners’. Then, when they decide to pursue their career aspirations, it all of a sudden becomes a choice between their job and their marriage. Fortunately, there are many supportive spouses, but you need to discuss your dreams and aspirations up front to set the right expectations.

Malou Aamund turns career advice into a popular novel

Malou Aamund is the Country Director for Google Denmark—a role that’s typically associated with sales strategy, not fiction writing. But she recently became the author of a new bestselling novel. 

Called Maria, it’s about two women who share the name. One of them chooses her family over everything else, only to find that she’s sacrificed and given away so much of herself that there’s nothing left of her own personality. The other Maria puts her career before everything and, in her determination to become a successful business leader, also loses herself.

“It’s about self help and personal development—this is fiction as a format for helping build your career,” Malou says. Typical career advice books—and there are plenty already—can be dry and detached. “I wanted to drive an experiment to see if you can get different emotions in people by putting this type of advice into fiction,” she says.

We (virtually) sat down with her to learn how her literary pursuits complement her day job—and vice versa.

How do you explain your job at a dinner party?

I’m responsible for all of Google’s business in Denmark, all the amazing things we’re doing with Grow with Google, and helping build small businesses. And I’m also responsible for how disruptive we are in many industries.

Your career has taken some strange detours—what are some of those?

The red thread has been that I’ve spent more than 20 years in tech at Microsoft, IBM and now Google. But along the way I also spent four years as a Member of Parliament in Denmark, representing the then-leading liberal party.

The idea of a political career started after I’d been on an international assignment in the U.S. for a few years. I got back to Denmark and thought, compared to the U.S., there was a standstill in our innovation agenda. As a business leader I could make recommendations, but what I really wanted was to take leadership and ownership. After I helped craft some policy reforms for the party, they asked if I’d be interested in running for office. And from there it was a wild and rewarding experience.

cover of malou aamund's book maria

What made you decide to write Maria?

It started 10 years ago. I was 15 years into my career, and was constantly seeing the same patterns when I was mentoring younger women. They felt there was a big personal cost for them to pursue their career dreams. It was disproportionate compared to how men felt at the same point in their own careers. I saw these amazingly talented women struggle with lower self confidence than men. I could see that in terms of how often women asked for a raise—they lacked the confidence to go in and demand what they deserved.

So I had the idea of creating a story where you had these two opposite personalities—one person who’s thinking so much about other people’s needs that she forgets herself, and the other who’s self-centered and opportunistic. They follow the same life pattern, but react very differently at life-changing moments. I wanted to empower women to have an emotional response to the story and think about how they would actually react.

Is it based on real people?

Not really, but based on a lot of observations throughout my career, along with data and research that I’ve read. We now have so many insights into the fact that women have lower self esteem and how that unfolds in their career. It’s the same research that we focus on in the #IamRemarkable initiative, a Google program to build self confidence in women. It’s becoming an amazing movement, a life-changing moment for women to go through.

What’s been the response to the book? 

I’ve been touring universities and leading career and book discussions. The most positive thing is that I’m seeing so many younger women embrace it, and really resonate with the characters’ problems and emotions.

There have also been a lot of parents who read the book first, and then give it to their adult children. As parents we all want to impart some values, and help our kids not make the same mistakes that we have. Here, parents can actually give moral advice in a fictional format.

Will Maria be translated into any other languages?

The publisher had planned to bring it to the London Book Fair, which is now cancelled due to COVID-19. But they are actively working on bringing it to other countries and languages.

Who has been a strong female influence in your life?

One of the highest ranking female executives in IBM was my mentor when I was pregnant with my second daughter. She asked me to join her team when I was six months pregnant, and showed a very courageous and progressive view on female talent, and took a personal bet on me. She is still a great support and a good friend. 

What advice do you have for women starting out in their careers? 

Choose the right partner. I have many girlfriends whose careers are not as highly prioritized as their partners’. Then, when they decide to pursue their career aspirations, it all of a sudden becomes a choice between their job and their marriage. Fortunately, there are many supportive spouses, but you need to discuss your dreams and aspirations up front to set the right expectations.

Dalgona coffee whips up global interest

For a lot of people, working from home means perfecting their own coffee-making skills rather than popping out to a cafe—and we’re seeing people whip up one style in particular. 

Dalgona is a delicious, sweet, creamy type of coffee that captured attention after Korean YouTube channel KBS Entertain uploaded a video in January. It took off from there, with fans around the world trying to make the perfect version and urging their friends and family to join in.  

A coffee breakout trend

It’s fair to say people were up for the “dalgona challenge”—but first, they needed to figure out how to make it. Search interest in dalgona has never been higher. It started heating up the week of March 15, when searches spiked 1,800 percent around the world. Since then, it’s increased to 3,000 times the usual number of weekly searches.

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Brewing up in Southeast Asia (and everywhere) 


Exactly how popular does that make dalgona? It’s become the most searched type of coffee worldwide in the past 30 days—overcoming legends like the latte, cappuccino, mocha, and the previously undefeated champion, the humble espresso.
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People everywhere have tried their hand at dalgona, but they seem a bit more determined to master the art in Southeast Asia: four of the five countries where dalgona coffee was the most searched were in the region.

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Spilling the beans on YouTube


A finished dalgona might look like a work of art, but there’s some serious science behind the process. People are turning to YouTube, where it all began, for videos showing how to make the best version. Between March 15 and April 6, average views of videos with “dalgona” in their title on YouTube increased by more than 5,000 percent globally. 


And it’s not just caffeine-lovers getting involved: people are experimenting with caffeine-free versions using matcha and Milo (chocolate, basically), both of which feature among the most-viewed videos.
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It’s been heartwarming to see dalgona coffee bring people together around the world, whether it’s to admire friends’ and strangers’ beautiful creations, or attempt the perfect dalgona themselves. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to perfecting my whisk.

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Dalgona coffee whips up global interest

For a lot of people, working from home means perfecting their own coffee-making skills rather than popping out to a cafe—and we’re seeing people whip up one style in particular. 

Dalgona is a delicious, sweet, creamy type of coffee that captured attention after Korean YouTube channel KBS Entertain uploaded a video in January. It took off from there, with fans around the world trying to make the perfect version and urging their friends and family to join in.  

A coffee breakout trend

It’s fair to say people were up for the “dalgona challenge”—but first, they needed to figure out how to make it. Search interest in dalgona has never been higher. It started heating up the week of March 15, when searches spiked 1,800 percent around the world. Since then, it’s increased to 3,000 times the usual number of weekly searches.

Dalgona trend 1.png

Brewing up in Southeast Asia (and everywhere) 


Exactly how popular does that make dalgona? It’s become the most searched type of coffee worldwide in the past 30 days—overcoming legends like the latte, cappuccino, mocha, and the previously undefeated champion, the humble espresso.
Dalgona trends 2.png

People everywhere have tried their hand at dalgona, but they seem a bit more determined to master the art in Southeast Asia: four of the five countries where dalgona coffee was the most searched were in the region.

Dalgona trends 3.png

Spilling the beans on YouTube


A finished dalgona might look like a work of art, but there’s some serious science behind the process. People are turning to YouTube, where it all began, for videos showing how to make the best version. Between March 15 and April 6, average views of videos with “dalgona” in their title on YouTube increased by more than 5,000 percent globally. 


And it’s not just caffeine-lovers getting involved: people are experimenting with caffeine-free versions using matcha and Milo (chocolate, basically), both of which feature among the most-viewed videos.
Dalgona trends 4.png

It’s been heartwarming to see dalgona coffee bring people together around the world, whether it’s to admire friends’ and strangers’ beautiful creations, or attempt the perfect dalgona themselves. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to perfecting my whisk.

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The stable channel has been updated to 81.0.4044.122 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.





A list of all changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

This update includes 8 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$20000][1065298] High CVE-2020-6459: Use after free in payments. Reported by Zhe Jin from cdsrc of Qihoo 360 on 2020-03-27
[$15000][1063566] High CVE-2020-6460: Insufficient data validation in URL formatting. Reported by Anonymous on 2020-03-21
[$5000][1067270] High CVE-2020-6458: Out of bounds read and write in PDFium. Reported by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos on 2020-04-02

We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
  • [1072815] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.




Prudhvikumar Bommana
Google Chrome

Four new Google Duo features to help you stay connected

For the past few weeks, even though I haven’t seen many of my loved ones in person, we’re still keeping in touch. Daily catch-ups with mom, weekend happy hours with friends, a birthday party with people who live all over the country. And it's all happening on Google Duo, our video calling product. That's the case for many people these days–in fact, every week, over 10 million new people are signing up for Duo, and in many countries, call minutes have increased by more than ten-fold. Here are a few new features to help you feel close to friends and family even when you’re apart.

Make secure, reliable calls

Private, high quality video calling is critical when you can’t be together in person. Duo is end to end encrypted, and we’re constantly making optimizations to ensure your video calling experience is clear and uninterrupted. Duo already uses AI to reduce audio interruptions, and in the coming week, we’re rolling out a new video codec technology to improve video call quality and reliability, even on very low bandwidth connections.
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Side by side comparison of an incoming video call at 30kbps with our new AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) video codec technology on the left.

Capture special and everyday moments

The way we get together has changed, but we’re still making memories, whether it’s watching someone blow out their birthday candles on a video call, or video chatting with friends while cooking dinner. When you’re on a video call with another person, starting today you can quickly take a photo together to capture the moment on smartphones, tablets and Chromebooks, and share it automatically with everyone on the call. You'll be able to do this on group calls and on more devices soon.
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Bring more people together on your video calls

Group calling is on the rise—in the past four weeks, we’re seeing eight times the number of group calls on Duo. On Android and iOS, we recently increased our group size to 12 participants (instead of 8), and in the coming weeks we plan to increase participants even further.

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Let someone know you’re thinking of them

Duo makes it easy to send personalized video and voice messages when you can’t call. Over the past year, we’ve added even more ways to share a quick moment, from photos to simple notes with text or doodles. In the past few weeks, Duo users are sending 180 percent more messages, with an 800 percent increase in regions particularly impacted by social distancing. You can say “I miss you” or “I’m thinking of you” using one of our latest AR effects. And soon, you’ll have the option to automatically save your messages in Duo instead of having them expire after 24 hours, so it’s easier to preserve your meaningful messages.
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With Google Duo, you can make high quality calls to anyone in your contact list in just a few taps across Android, iOS, tablets, web browsers on Windows, Mac, or Chrome OS, or even smart speakers and smart displays like the Nest Hub Max. We hope these features help you feel closer to your friends and family even if you can’t be physically together.