Welcome to the 482nd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week:
Google Authenticator has a new feature. It now lets you back up your two-factor authentication entries to your Google account. This is great since most of its competitors already do this, and most of the apps on our best two-factor authentication apps do. That means Google has caught up. There are some questions as to its encryption, though, so it’s something to keep an eye on.
Qualcomm is rolling out a new upscaling technology called Snapdragon Game Super Resolution. The company says the feature can upscale games from 1080p and 30FPS to 4K and 60FPS. It’s available to some games and should roll out in a wider capacity later this year.
Google Bard is making slow, but steady progress. It can now help you write code in 22 programming languages and also help you create Google Sheets functions. Google warns that the code may not work as intended, even if the code itself works. Google employees weren’t thrilled with Bard at launch, but it seems to be improving at a steady rate.
Microsoft added a feature to Edge that lets you follow content creators. It’s malfunctioning, and the malfunction sends every website you visit to Bing’s API. That is, of course, a fairly heavy privacy breach. Microsoft promises to fix the issue, but it’s probably a good idea to switch browsers until they do.
Google announced a new prompt for Android apps. The new prompt will let you know if there’s a new version of an app in the Play Store whenever an app crashes. Since updates fix crashes a vast majority of the time, Google is banking on the developer fixing the issue by the time the user gets around to seeing it. Hit the link to learn more.
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