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Google has been on a roll this week with app updates and there have been some pretty cool new features, not the least of which  makes comic books more awesome . One of the latest arrivals to the list is a beta update to the titular app. Known originally as "Search," the Google app now encompasses a custom launcher, the Now stream, Now on Tap, voice commands, and more. The recently announced Google assistant is on course to join the party, promising to bring many of these technologies together to deliver something not unlike the computer from Star Trek: The Next Generation. While there's still plenty of work remaining, a teardown gives a bit of insight into some of the progress that Google has made already. Teardown Disclaimer: Teardowns are based on evidence found inside of apks (Android's application package) and are necessarily speculative and usually based on incomplete information. It's possible that the guesses made here are totally and completely ...

Do you read comic books from the Play Store? if not, you might want to start. Google just announced a great new feature at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 that changes the experience of reading comic books. It's called Bubble Zoom and it quite literally makes speech bubbles leap off the page. Each blob of text is identified and sequentially pops up with the press of a volume button or a tap at the bottom-right of the screen. With the use of its powerful machine learning and image recognition technology, Google can identify speech bubbles on the page and enlarge them on the page. The magnification of individual talking points makes it easier to read dialog while the entire page is left visible. There's even an added sense of action as the bubbles animate back and forth on the page. For now, the only supported comics are collections published by Marvel and DC. There's a list of them here . To promote Bubble Zoom, Google is offering 50% off these books with the code  SDCC2016 . T...