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Exclusive: India plans action against Google after antitrust breaches
India's government plans to take action against Alphabet Inc's Google after an antitrust watchdog last year found the group to have abused its market position by indulging in anti-competitive practices, a top IT minister told Reuters.
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A Google researcher – who said she was fired after pointing out biases in AI – says companies won't 'self-regulate' because of the AI 'gold rush'
Timnit Gebru co-authored a research paper while she worked at Google, which identified the biases of machine learning.
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Neeva, the would-be Google competitor, is shutting down its search engine
Neeva was ahead of Google on a lot of things in search — but still couldn’t make users switch
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Sorry Bing, Samsung’s sticking with Google as its default mobile search engine
It looks like Samsung isn’t going to use Bing as the default search engine on its mobile web browser after all. That’s according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which says Samsung paused an internal review of whether the company should replace Google with Bing on its in-house Internet Browser.
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Google to delete accounts inactive for two years in security push
Google, which hosts billions of user accounts, said on Tuesday that it plans to delete accounts that have remained inactive for two years.
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Google to pay $8M settlement for “lying to Texans,” state AG says
Google has agreed to an $8 million settlement with Texas over deceptive ads promoting its Pixel 4 smartphone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today. At issue was Google's trustworthiness as an advertiser after the tech giant "hired radio DJs to record and broadcast detailed testimonials about their personal experiences with the Pixel 4," but then "refused to provide the DJs with a phone for them to use," Paxton said.
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The Nexus 7 was Google’s only great tablet, and it has never tried to replace it
Opinion: 2013 Nexus 7 was the right tablet at the right price at the right time.
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Google is about to change the way most of us search the web. Here's what it will look like
For more than two decades, the format of the Google Search results page hasn't changed much: type a phrase and get a list of blue links. Now, the most valuable real estate on the internet appears set to undergo a renovation, with Google announcing an opt-in trial for adding generative artificial intelligence (AI) to the results page.
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Google is increasing the number of ads in Gmail, showing them in the middle of inboxes
Ads have appeared in Gmail for a long time now, placed at the top of the Promotions and Social inboxes, but it seems Google feels that users...
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Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right?
The passkey ecosystem is far from complete, but Google's implementation is now ready to use.
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Google Pixel Tablet specs leak just days ahead of I/O
It also reveals a potential Pixel Tablet release date.
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Gmail ads are getting more annoying
Gmail is getting more persistent advertisements that have started popping up in the middle of some users’ inboxes, as first reported by 9to5Google. Several screenshots posted to Twitter show promotional messages mixed in with actual emails on Gmail’s desktop site, and users aren’t very happy about it.
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A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
The company's Pixel phone responds to voice commands, and sometimes that can have inadvertent effects.
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Godfather of AI: Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to expose risks of artificial intelligence
"I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn't done it, somebody else would have," says the Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton also known as the 'Godfather of AI' has cut off the strings that tied him to Google so that he could openly give vent to his views about the downside of the technology that has taken the world by storm.
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Apple and Google aim to expose Bluetooth tracker abuse
Apple and Google on Tuesday proposed a tech standard to make sure people get tipped off when their movements are being tracked with Bluetooth devices like AirTags or Tile. The tech titans behind rival mobile operating systems that, together, power most of the world's smartphones said the "first-of-its-kind" specification has backing of Samsung, Tile and others.
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Apple has joined forces with Google. Will they find a way to crack down on stalkers?
The problem is that no one can guarantee that AirTags or other similar tags will not be used, for example, to track a person’s location. They usually have very little chance of discovering a small tracker on their person. Apple is trying to combat this, and has specifically developed several mechanisms to alert the person being tracked that an AirTag belonging to someone else is in their vicinity. Unfortunately, the notifications only go out automatically to other iPhones, so for Android phone owners, the ability to protect themselves is very limited. Not to mention other brands of trackers.
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Google, Microsoft CEOs called to AI meeting at White House
The chief executives of Alphabet Inc's Google , Microsoft , OpenAI and Anthropic will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and top White House officials to discuss key artificial intelligence (AI) issues on Thursday, said a White House official on Tuesday.
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Google plans to add end-to-end encryption to Authenticator
Google says it will come “down the line.”
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Chromebooks' short lifespans are creating 'piles of electronic waste'
Chromebooks have always been a popular option for schools due to the relatively cheap prices, but they exploded in popularity during the Covid pandemic as kids did their schoolwork from home. However, they may not be such a good deal after all, according to a new report called Chromebook Churn from the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). They found that many Chromebooks purchased just three years ago are already breaking, creating electronic waste and costing taxpayers money.
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Schools bought millions of Chromebooks in 2020 — and three years later, they’re starting to break
Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops that they could send home with their students. Quite a few turned to Chromebooks. Three years later, the US Public Interest Research Group Education Fund concludes in a new report called Chromebook Churn that many of these batches are already beginning to break. That’s potentially costing districts money; PIRG estimates that “doubling the lifespan of Chromebooks could result in $1.8 billion in savings for taxpayers.” It also creates quite a bit of e-waste.
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