Google Roundup: Five Useful New Features For Google's Apps And Devices

Chromecast, the Assistant and Android Auto get useful new features and the blob emoji are back. Here are some of the changes Google rolled out recently. Back in the day, Google Now provided a daily collection of reminders, weather and traffic reports, events on your schedule and more. It was extremely useful if you took the time to customize it so it brought you just the information you needed to navigate through your day. Google Now is gone, but the purpose it served has returned via the Assistant with a new feature called "Visual Snapshot" that is rolling out now.