Google’s updating the timer and stopwatch built into Search. Both tools get a fresh, colorful, responsive makeover, and a little new functionality. Either can be accessed from desktop or mobile alike.

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You can easily add a timer to your Google Slides presentations, to help you keep track of how long you're taking during a presentation. However, Google Slides has no built in timer function, which ...