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Google — along with Starbucks, Spirit Halloween, and seemingly every grocery store in my area — is starting to gear up for fall. It’s bringing seasonal ringtones to the Nest Doorbell (battery) even earlier this year, with the addition of a festive accordion jingle for Oktoberfest that’ll become available in the Google Home App starting September 5th. Like last year, Google will also let you set your doorbell chime to some spooky sounds for Halloween, starting on October 1st…. Source link

Comment on this story Comment Ever wonder how to game Google Flights? Us, too. To help us on our quest for cheaper travel, Google Flights published five years’ worth of airfare data on Wednesday. The research supports some classic travel wisdom — like the myth we busted that Tuesday isn’t the best day to find cheap flights. But there are also some results that may surprise well-informed travelers — like prices for domestic flights are lowest between 21 and 60 days out. The engineers… Source link

Google has confirmed multiple new vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser across all platforms, and users worldwide are encouraged to update as soon as possible. Publishing the news on its official Chrome blog, Google revealed that external researchers have discovered 24 vulnerabilities. Eight are categorized as carrying a ‘High’ threat level, while one is deemed ‘Critical’. Here is everything you need to know to stay safe. Multiple new high-level threats have been… Source link

Comment on this story Comment Google is increasing its investment in basketball, becoming the first women’s-only global partner with FIBA. The internet company entered a multiyear partnership with the WNBA in 2021 and now is working with basketball’s world governing body, which has nine global partners for both men’s and women’s basketball. “It opens up a wide range of opportunities not only for the exposure of women’s basketball, but also it gives a sense of validation for all those… Source link

Smartphone is seen in front of Microsoft logo displayed in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google criticised Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) cloud computing changes on Tuesday, saying they limit competition and discourage customers from switching to rival cloud service providers. The U.S. software giant on Monday announced amended… Source link

Google said on Tuesday that it would not distribute Truth Social on its Play app store until Truth Social, the social media platform founded by former President Donald J. Trump, removed content that incites violence. Truth Social built a version of its app for Android devices this year, but when Google reviewed it, the company said it found user content that included physical threats, and told Truth Social to weed out that material and resubmit the app for review. “On Aug. 19 we notified… Source link

Updated Aug. 30, 2022 4:57 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) California may soon require nearly all employers hiring in the state to begin listing pay on job postings, a move that could affect many of the biggest U.S. companies. A bill passed by the California legislature mandates that all organizations with 15 or more employees include the hourly pay or salary range on job listings in the state. It also calls for companies to disclose more information to the state on the wages of existing… Source link

The app favored by many of Trump’s supporters still has not met the Google Play Store’s standards, including policies against incitement and physical threats of violence, the company told CNN on Tuesday. “On August 19 we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,” the Google… Source link

Google has introduced a new vulnerability rewards program to pay researchers who find security flaws in its open-source software or in the building blocks that its software is built on. It’ll pay anywhere from $101 to $31,337 for information about bugs in projects like Angular, GoLang, and Fuchsia or for vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies that are included in those projects’ codebases. While it’s important for Google to fix bugs in its own projects (and in the software… Source link

Donald Trump’s social media app “Truth Social” in Apple’s App Store on an iPhone 12. Christoph Dernbach | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Truth Social, the would-be Twitter competitor created by Trump Media and Technology Group, remains unavailable on the Google Play store. According to a report from Axios, Google said the app lacks effective systems for moderating user-generated content, which violates the store’s terms of service. “On Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of… Source link