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By Diane Bartz, Paresh Dave 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) – A bipartisan group of state attorneys general plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google as early as next month, according to two people briefed on the matter. The lawsuit is separate from a widely anticipated Texas antitrust action that could also come before the end of the year. The… Source link

By Jessica Davis November 23, 2020 – Two new phishing campaigns have been spotted in the wild using legitimate Google services and social engineering in an effort to appear as legitimate emails and are capable of bypassing security measures, according to reports from Microsoft and Armorblox. For the first campaign, Microsoft took to Twitter to warn Office 365 users that hackers were targeting enterprises… Source link

Staying home this Thanksgiving to stop the spread of COVID-19? No technology can ever fully replace the feeling of an in-person holiday gathering, but you can recreate some family traditions online. With so many choices, it can be difficult to determine which video calling platform is right for your family. Here’s how to digitize the dinner table this Thanksgiving no matter who is virtually visiting.  Most family-friendly These platforms are perfect for those who have a hard time adjusting… Source link

Thursday is around the corner, and while many of us will be refraining from traveling for Thanksgiving, USA TODAY will continue our annual tradition. It’s time to roll back the clock and look at the top tech turkeys of the year, the products or companies that let us down, big time in 2020.  Let’s start with Google Photos. The pitch was hard to ignore. At a time when Apple, Microsoft and Amazon charged for backing up your photos online, in 2015 Google Photos debuted and told consumers “you… Source link

Chrome extension developers shouldn’t be able to collect and use your personal data however they see fit. From January, Google is ensuring developers clearly state what data is being collected by an extension while at the same time placing new limits on how it can be used. In a post on the Chromium Blog, Google explains how the developer policy is being updated so as to limit what extension developers can do with the data they collect. Also, the detail page for each Chrome extension must… Source link

Google Assistant now lets users schedule lights and other devices to turn on and off at specific times with its “scheduled actions” feature, according to Android Police, which cites Google Assistant developer documentation. Google Assistant has worked with Hue and other smart lights for some time, to turn them on and off and to set alarms, but now you can tell your Assistant exactly when you want to turn on lights and other devices in a smart home. One caveat: you have to be really… Source link

Google faces UK scrutiny over new advertising data revamp … Source link

Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new Android AR app,  “The Mandalorian” AR Experience, which will display iconic moments from the first season of the show in AR, allowing fans to retrace the Mandalorian’s steps, find the Child, harness the Force, and more, according to the app’s Play Store description. In the app, users will be… Source link

Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is facing a competition challenge in Europe. A coalition of digital marketing companies announced today that it’s filed a complaint with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), calling for the regulator to block implementation of the Sandbox. The coalition wants Google’s phasing out of third party tracking cookies to be put on ice to prevent the Sandbox launching… Source link

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