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Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Across many years of covering our increasingly fractured media landscape, there’s really just one thing that’s given us some true hope for the triumph of the human spirit over the rampant rise of cold corporate logic: The continued existence of the petty-ass “Just LOOK what your father is making me do!” energy that pervades any big conflict between content studios and the service providers who carry their work to the masses. Once upon a time, you… Source link

Reuters Videos ‘Nobody is helping’: India’s hospitals in COVID crisis Just hours ago, Manika Goel’s mother died of COVID-19. Now, she is sat by her husband’s side in a New Delhi hospital – where he is in a critical condition with the virus.39-year-old Amit is wedged between three other patients in a hospital casualty ward.One of many in India, the world’s second most populous nation, that is totally overwhelmed with patients.Goel, a software engineer, says she managed to find an oxygen… Source link

Google dominates the browser market with Chrome—most of you will use it on at least one of your devices. And so the shocking new warnings about Chrome’s “creepy” new tracking should give you serious reason for concern. It might be time for you to quit. The headlines this week have been dominated by Apple’s iOS 14.5. Finally we have the long-awaited crackdown on Facebook-style tracking. But while we’ve been distracted by Tim Cook versus Mark Zuckerberg, Google has quietly been… Source link

Albertsons Cos.’ Safeway chain and Target Corp. stores are helping shoppers find deals on groceries via Google. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said yesterday it has partnered with Safeway and Target to simplify the task of finding grocery and other specials using the Google Pay app. Customers can find deals on thousands of items at more than 500 Safeway stores as well as at all Target stores nationwide. Related: Albertsons, Google eye… Source link

In an important decision that many were watching for guidance on the scope of copyright protection afforded software, in the recent Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. copyright dispute, the Supreme Court weighed in on the scope of protection available for application programming interfaces (APIs). Google’s Use of Java-Based Interfaces In 1990, Sun Microsystems developed a new programming language called Java, as well as several APIs that made it easier for programs that… Source link

Roku Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google failed to reach a renewal agreement over the distribution of YouTube TV, meaning that the online-cable service will no longer be available in Roku’s channel store. The companies’ carriage agreement for YouTube TV had been up for renewal, sparking a dispute between Roku ROKU, -2.81% and Google GOOG, -0.74% GOOGL, -1.48% about the new terms. Roku said that Google Source link

Google HDR+ with Bracketing example, shot on a Pixel 4A 5G. Google One of the main reasons I’ve stuck with Pixel phones over the last few years has been the quality of the photos. Sure, other phones have offered higher resolutions, more advanced sensors, but thanks to Google’s clever processing, the quality of the images from the Pixel’s camera have been among the best you can get. Which as a photographer, that’s key. They keep tweaking that processing, and the latest… Source link

By Jessica Davis April 30, 2021 – Two individuals who used California’s state public health COVID-19 contact tracing app have filed a lawsuit against its developer, Google, claiming the tool exposes user data and violated their privacy, among other allegations. The Google-Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) System was developed by the tech giants to support governments and public health agencies control the… Source link

Roku’s streaming devices are among the most popular in the US.  Sarah Tew/CNET Roku said Friday that Google‘s… Source link

It’s official: New subscribers to Google’s live TV service, YouTube TV, will not be able to access it on Roku devices, according to an email the manufacturer of the popular stream boxes sent to its users. In cases such as this, current users are still able to access the app and its features, but no updates are provided. Roku speaks “We will always stand up for our users, which is why we cannot accept Google’s unfair and anticompetitive requirements that would allow for the manipulation of… Source link