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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

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo SEOUL, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google are not doing enough to comply with a South Korean law that bars dominant app store operators from forcing app developers to use their payment systems, a lawmaker who spearheaded the amendment told Reuters. South Korea, the first country to impose legislation curbing the tech… Source link

Google is adding a handful of new features to Google Maps in time for the holiday season, which collectively should make getting around a slightly less fraught experience. The new features were announced in a blog post today. A new “Area Busyness” feature provides information on how popular neighborhoods are rather than just specific destinations, while the app’s “Directory” tab is rolling out globally to give more info on the stores and amenities inside locations like malls and… Source link

News Heed the search engine’s advice this Thanksgiving and beyond. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Between concerns about inflation and supply chain disruptions, not to mention the lingering possibilities of viral infection, the 2021 holiday season may be stressful enough already. Hoping to… Source link

Angela Lang/CNET Google on Tuesday unveiled new… Source link