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A new flaw introduced as part of a November software update may have allowed app developers to access certain 'not-public' information on users' profiles – including names, email addresses, occupations, ages, and more – over a six-day period, Google revealed today.

Google Web Designer is a new professional-quality design tool that makes HTML5 creative accessible to everyone from the professional designer to the Photoshop dabbler.

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A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else. Jack Poulson, a former researcher at the company, said that senior managers consider the prevention of leaks to be their “number one priority.”

The late Steve Jobs really was irate with Google for stealing the iPhone's thunder, according to his biographer. Speaking last night at the Royal Institution in Great Britain, "Steve Jobs" author Walter Isaacson laid out the scenario under which Jobs' anger toward Android unfurled. As described by MacWorld, Jobs was upset back in the old days when Bill Gates adopted Apple's graphical user interface for Windows and then licensed the OS to Dell, IBM, and a slew of other PC makers, giving Microsoft dominance in the PC market.

In 2015, with Internet Explorer a dead browser walking, Microsoft stepped back into the web browser wars with the speedy new Microsoft Edge. Built around a revamped and tuned-up version of the engine that powered Microsoft's web browsers since the late 1990s, Edge was meant to challenge the Google's hegemonic Chrome, potentially sparking a new browser war from which surfers everywhere would benefit.

Apple's wireless earbuds, AirPods, may soon be getting a few new rivals, according to a note from TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Both Amazon and Google could soon be Apple's competitors in the wireless ear device market, Kuo predicted in a December 4 note seen by Business Insider. "We believe that AirPods' success has drawn Google and Amazon's attention and these two companies will launch AirPod-alike products in [the second half of 2019]," Kuo wrote. "The combined shipments of two brands will likely reach 10-20 million units in [the second half of 2019.]"

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17 Amazing Googles 20th Birthday Facts,Happy birthday, Google! While Google Inc. was officially incorporated on Sept. 4 1998 (and Google search is actually one year older), 17 Amazing Googles 20th Birthday Facts,Cheerful birthday, Google! While Google Inc. was authoritatively joined on Sept. 4 1998 (and Google look is really one year more seasoned), the organization has as of late been praising its commemoration on Sept. 27. On this day, the tech monster denotes the event with a unique birthday Google doodle on its landing page.

There has been a whirlwind of rumors around Google's messaging strategy over the past few days.

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A few weeks ago, we told you about an insane deal from Spotify: subscribers of the Spotify Premium for Family plan can get a Google Home Mini completely free-of-charge. That deal lasts until December 31, 2018 — head here to read our instructions on the process.

Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.

A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly.

Seven European consumer groups filed complaints against Google with national regulators on Tuesday, accusing the internet giant of covertly tracking users’ movements in violation of an EU regulation on data protection. The complaints cited a study by the Norwegian Consumer Council that concluded the internet giant used “deceptive design and misleading information, which results in users accepting to be constantly tracked”.

Is barking orders at our AI-powered voice assistants turning us into jerks? Are our kids growing accustomed to commanding the Google Homes and Siris of the world to turn on the lights without the politeness of a “please”? Perhaps. With that in mind, from here on out, Google Assistant will be a bit more cheery if you take the time to say “please” or “thank you.” If, for example, you say, “Hey Google, please set a timer for 10 minutes,” Google Assistant will respond “Thanks for asking so nicely! 10 minutes, starting now.”

Google executives ignored internal warnings about their censored China search plan and theatened employees would be fired if they spoke out. By Ryan Gallagher.

On Nov. 1, 20,000 Google employees and contractors walked out of the company’s offices around the world, one week after the New York Times reported that Google had protected three executives accused of sexual misconduct, including Android founder Andy Rubin. But the protests were about more than just how Google handles harassment. On the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, six of the walkout organizers...

A true apology consists of a sincere acknowledgement of wrong-doing, a show of empathic remorse for why you wronged and the harm it caused, and a promise of restitution by improving ones actions to make things right. Without the follow-through, saying sorry isn’t an apology, it’s a hollow ploy for forgiveness.

In a letter published Tuesday morning, Google workers asked their bosses to cancel a project called Dragonfly, a controversial censored search app for the Chinese market. Additionally, employees asked that the company promise no backlash against whistleblowers making details of secret internal projects known if they were in the public's interest. "We are Google employees who are joining with Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly and guarantee protections for whistleblowers," the employees said in a statement ahead of publishing their letter.

Google wants to be your phone company.

While it's no Google Pixelbook, at half the price, the latest Acer Chromebook 13 gives more bang for the buck.

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My guest author has discovered a secret pipeline to profitable keyword research for free without ever leaving the Google homepage.

A few weeks ago, Italy fined Apple and Samsung €15 million for the “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. The antitrust regulators allege that both companies pushed users to download software that slowed phone performance, forcing customers to buy replacement phones sooner. The fines were another blow to big tech companies as the groundswell of skepticism against them rises. These companies have amassed so much power that even Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for stricter regulations to be placed on them.

Google revealed its Black Friday 2018 deals today for the Google Store and they kick off on November 16 with a Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL that gets you a second phone for 50% off, once you buy the first. They’ve also got cash discounts on Pixel 3 and 3 XL, plus deals on Google Home Hub, Mini, regular Home, and Max, Pixelbook, Chromecast, and Nest products, just like we expected.

Two years ago, Google’s release of the first Pixel smartphone radically raised the bar for the image quality we could expect from mobile cameras. Today, even as everyone else struggles to catch up, Google is extending its lead with the introduction of an equally revolutionary new camera. It’s called Night Sight, and it effectively lets your phone camera see in the dark. Only it doesn’t require any additional hardware or cost: Night Sight is a new camera mode for Pixel phones.

DeepMind now wants its health app to become an AI assistant for nurses and doctors around the world.

Verily, Alphabet's life sciences arm, has paused work on its so-called "smart lens" program, which was aiming to put tiny sensors on contact lenses to measure blood sugar levels in tears. If it worked, the lenses could help diabetics track their glucose levels in real time and in less invasive ways than the traditional meters that require piercing the skin. But in a blog post on Friday, Verily said that after four years of research it has determined that detecting blood sugar in tears is a massive — and potentially insurmountable — technical and scientific undertaking.

Big tech has ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes the former US labor secretary

Last week, the New York Times revealed that Facebook executives withheld evidence of Russian activity on their platform far longer than previously disclosed. They also employed a political opposition research firm to discredit critics. There’s a larger story here. America’s Gilded Age of the late 19th century began with a raft of innovations – railroads, steel production, oil extraction – but culminated in mammoth trusts owned by “robber barons” who used their wealth and power to drive out competitors and corrupt American politics.

Nick Colas, DataTrek Research‘s co-founder, has depicted a rather simple way to track Bitcoin in anticipation of the next spike. While investigating Google searches for “Bitcoin” may seem an overly simplistic methodology, Colas was the first analyst to track Bitcoin diligently, and his opinions come highly qualified.

Critics say the search giant is squelching competition before it begins. Should the government step in? By Charles Duhigg.