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Russian search engine and email provider Yandex said today that it caught one of its employees selling access to user email accounts for personal gains. The company, which did not disclose the employee’s name, said the person was “one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to provide technical support” for its Yandex.Mail service. The Russian company said it’s now in the process of notifying the owners of the 4,887… Source link

By Jessica Kent February 02, 2021 – Google Cloud has announced the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, a set of data analytics technologies to help regional and local governments ensure vaccine availability and deliver successful COVID-19 public health strategies. “Google has supported communities and public health organizations throughout the pandemic through research grants, telehealth support, and more. And as the global challenge to immunize millions of people continues to… Source link

Jan 25 (Reuters) – * ALPHABET INC’S GOOGLE SAYS WILL INVEST $150 MILLION TO PROMOTE VACCINE EDUCATION AND EQUITABLE ACCESS * GOOGLE SAYS TO INVEST $100 MLN IN AD GRANTS FOR CDC FOUNDATION, WHO AND NON-PROFITS * GOOGLE SAYS TO INVEST $50 MILLION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES TO REACH UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES WITH VACCINE-RELATED CONTENT AND INFORMATION * GOOGLE SAYS GOOGLE.ORG HAS COMMITTED $5 MLN IN GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS ADDRESSING RACIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITIES IN COVID-19… Source link

Google’s parent company is winding down a project that used highflying balloons to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions of the world, as it retreats from some of the moonshot projects championed by its founders. The project, known as Loon, started in 2011 and had its first public launch in New Zealand in 2013. It sought to connect billions of people in communities where traditional ground-based infrastructure was too expensive or too difficult to install. But… Source link

Google plans to revoke others’ Chromium-based browsers’ access to a long list of APIs that power such popular services as bookmark and settings synchronization. “We discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome Sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google’s use,” Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled “our… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – With children facing another long period of homeschooling during the third UK-wide lockdown, parents without laptops or tablets might be wondering how else they can log onto educational services at home. Well, did you know that you can use a Xbox or PlayStation games console instead? All you need is an Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox… Source link

As part of its $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers, Google will start paying for some paywalled content for its News Showcase program. News Showcase, a new addition to Google News that launched in October, displays story panels curated by publishers — but its not available in the US yet. News Showcase will “start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers,” says a Google blog post. Google will pay partners for… 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

Some Android users in Europe say they feel misled by their governments. Instructions on many of the apps direct Android users to turn on location, for instance, but make no mention of Google or that users can stop the company from determining their precise locations by turning off the accuracy feature within the location setting. “With this app, you’re invited, by the government strongly appealing to your sense of responsibility and morality, to give away your live location to entities… Source link

Some Android users in Europe say they feel misled by their governments. Instructions on many of the apps direct Android users to turn on location, for instance, but make no mention of Google or that users can stop the company from determining their precise locations by turning off the accuracy feature within the location setting. “With this app, you’re invited, by the government strongly appealing to your sense of responsibility and morality, to give away your live location to entities… Source link