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The logo of Google is seen in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for its news content as part of broad five-year partnership announced Wednesday that marks one of the biggest licensing deals struck by a tech giant under a new French law. News organizations, which have been losing ad revenue to online aggregators such as Google and Facebook (FB.O), have complained… Source link

Google quietly rolled out a Pixel 6 update that addresses fingerprint scanner issues, as first reported by XDA Developers. The update details have been confirmed in a post on a Google Support page, which vaguely notes that it includes “minor bug fixes and some fingerprint sensor performance improvements for Pixel 6 and 6 Pro,” without really giving us any details about how the sensor was improved. Dan Siefert called out the fingerprint reader in our reviews of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6… Source link

11/17 Update below. This post was originally published on November 16 Chrome users beware, attacks on Google’s browser are increasing rapidly and now multiple new hacks have been confirmed. Google has confirmed 25e new Chrome security vulnerabilities, including seven ‘High’ level threats LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Critics Explain Why You Should Quit ChromeBy Gordon Kelly Google published the news in a new blog post, where it… Source link

YouTube found to infringe video-streaming optimization patent VideoShare case against Facebook still pending (Reuters) – Google and its video platform YouTube owe nearly $26 million for infringing a streaming-video patent owned by VideoShare LLC, a Texas federal jury said. The Waco, Texas jury found Tuesday that YouTube’s streaming technology works in the same way as VideoShare’s patented technology for converting a video to multiple formats and transmitting it in the best format for a user’s… Source link

The UK’s data protection watchdog has written to Apple and Google seeking details of how they assess apps to determine the age ratings they apply following concerns raised by an online child safety charity. The move follows the coming into force of the UK’s Age Appropriate Design Code this September — which puts requirements on digital services that are likely to be accessed by children to prioritize protecting their privacy and safety. In a statement today the information… Source link

Google Cloud announced a multiyear partnership with Cohere, an early-stage startup that is building a natural language processing platform to make it easier for developers to build natural language processing models into applications. The solution requires a fair amount of infrastructure resources to pull off, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is going to provide them under the terms of this deal. The two companies are also planning a go-to-market effort together,… Source link

A Sonos Move battery-powered Bluetooth smart speaker, taken on September 26, 2019. (Photo by Phil … [+] Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images An on-going lawsuit between Google and Sonos continues to heat up, as Google claims ownership of Sonos’ patents.  Bloomberg reports that Google claims it “conceived of the cloud queue idea” and should be the rightful owner of two patents that currently belong to Sonos. Google… Source link

Nov 16 (Reuters) – Multiple social media apps such as Snapchat (SNAP.N), Spotify (SPOT.N) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud appeared to be coming back online after a brief global outage on Tuesday. Google said issues with its Cloud Networking, which counts Etsy , Spotify and Snap Inc as clients, were partially resolved shortly after thousands of users flagged it on outage tracking website downdetector.com. Google Cloud’s dashboard earlier showed that services including cloud developer… Source link

Sites and services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Etsy seem to be recovering after an outage that brought them, and many other sites, down for a little less than an hour on Tuesday. The culprit for the outages appears to have been Google Cloud, and the service’s status page still shows a networking issue is currently causing problems resulting in the 404 errors that appeared on affected web pages. An update to the status page posted at 1:17PM ET says “the issue with Cloud… Source link

Chrome users beware, attacks on Google’s browser are increasing rapidly and now multiple new hacks have been confirmed.  Google has confirmed 25e new Chrome security vulnerabilities, including seven ‘High’ level threats LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Critics Explain Why You Should Quit ChromeBy Gordon Kelly Google published the news in a new blog post, where it revealed an eye-popping 25 new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the… Source link