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FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google urged the government on Wednesday to narrow the definition of “highly sensitive” information as he considered arguments on which of Google’s lawyers would be able to see evidence produced by other companies. U.S. District… Source link

Google is planning to acquire cloud-focused data protection technology developer Actifio in a move to better protect enterprise workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google, which Wednesday unveiled the planned acquisition in a blog post by Brad Calder, the tech giant’s vice president of engineering, said Actifio will be an important part of protecting data on Google Cloud. “As organizations across industries sharpen their disaster preparedness strategies and infrastructure… Source link

​Alexandria, VA, December 2, 2020—Today, Google and the SHRM Foundation announced a partnership committed to connecting diverse tech talent with opportunities at major companies across the United States. Through promotion of Google’s Career Certificates for jobseekers, and it’s hiring consortium of employers, SHRM and Google hope to empower HR professionals with technology and programs that create economic opportunity, promote inclusive hiring practices, and narrow the digital skills… Source link

Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. The complaint names two employees, Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, both of whom were fired by the company in late 2019 in connection with employee activism. Berland was organizing against Google’s decision to work with IRI Consultants, a firm widely known for its anti-union… Source link

In the same week that Amazon is holding its big AWS confab, Google is also announcing a move to raise its own enterprise game with Google Cloud. Today the company announced that it is acquiring Actifio, a data management company that helps companies with data continuity to be better prepared in the event of a security breach or other need for disaster recovery. The deal squares Google up as a competitor against the likes of Rubrik, another big player in data continuity. The terms of the… Source link

Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge. That’s one of several announcements that the search giant made today about News Showcase, the program where it pays publishers (with $1 billion committed initially) to license their content for a new format in Google News. So far, Google News Showcase has launched in countries including Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, France, U.K. and Australia — in several cases, those are… Source link

Watch Kyra Seevers talk about her undergraduate research experience at UK in the video above.  LEXINGTON, Ky. (UK Public Affairs) — Graduating computer science and Lewis Honors College senior Kyra Seevers, of Lexington, recently interviewed as a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. And, while she won’t be pursuing graduate studies in England next fall, Seevers will embark on another exciting new chapter in her life as she takes a position at Google’s Cambridge,… Source link

Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro was vulnerable to silent attack from up to 100 meters away, or more, according … [+] to a Google researcher. (Photo by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Apple’s iPhones can boast some of the highest-grade smartphone security that can foil even the best-equipped spies. But that doesn’t make them infallible to attack. A Google researcher, working on his “lockdown… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Google has added the ability for the community to leave information to Google Maps, meaning you can now see info from local experts on places you’re visiting.  This essentially means that as well as information on a local spot that’s been added by the business owner, you’ll also be able to see updates from people who have been there… Source link

As per Windows Latest, Google is also working on an update that will allow the search-giant to apply a dark theme to search results when the browser is in dark mode. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Google and Microsoft are collaborating to improve dark mode in Chrome. Google is enhancing its WebUIs to add dark theme to almost every corner and deliver a complete dark experience to its Chrome web… Source link