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Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new HTTPS report in Search Console.  The announcement came via Google’s Search Central Blog and indicated the search engine expects the launch process to take a few months. “One of the common requests we heard from you was to provide more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not,” Google said in the blog. This new report will show how many… Source link

Google’s parent company Alphabet is bringing together two of its most ambitious research projects — robotics and AI language understanding — in an attempt to make a “helper robot” that can understand natural language commands. Since 2019, Alphabet been developing robots that can carry out simple tasks like fetching drinks and cleaning surfaces. This Everyday Robots project is still in its infancy — the robots are slow and hesitant — but the bots have now been given an… Source link

The U.S. labor market remained red-hot in July despite expectations job growth would cool as tighter monetary conditions and company layoffs stoked fears of a recession. The Labor Department released its latest monthly jobs report at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Here were the key numbers from the report, compared to economist estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Non-farm payrolls: +528,000 vs. +250,000 Unemployment rate: 3.5% vs. 3.6% Average hourly earnings, month-over-month: +0.5% vs. +0.4% Average… Source link

Google’s adding a new option to help users support Asian-owned businesses, with a new ‘Asian-owned’ attribute available within Google My Business profiles. As displayed in the video, the new ‘Asian-owned’ attribute adds a badge to that business’ display, in both Search and Maps, which could help guide users that are looking to support minority-owned businesses in their decision-making. Google added business identity… Source link

Google is adding a label to help searchers easily find businesses that self-identify as Asian-owned. Google’s addition of business attributes that highlight identity popped up first with tags for women-led businesses in 2018. Later that year, Google added labels to distinguish veteran-owned businesses on searches and Maps. In July 2020, Google introduced its label to focus searches seeking Black-owned businesses, in September 2021, Google added a Latino-owned tag, and most recently in… Source link

Google is rolling out a small but significant update to its Google Photos service that will make it easier to keep control of your storage. In this recent update, spotted by 9To5Google, Google has added extra information to each photo, allowing you to view its selected backup quality as well as the amount of your precious Google One storage quota it’s using. If you have received the update, and not everyone has, you can view the new information by going to the Google Photos web interface,… Source link

The U.S. labor market remained a bright spot in the economy last month despite mounting talks of a recession, data from the Labor Department showed Friday. Here are the key numbers from Friday’s report: Non-farm payrolls: +372,000 vs. +268,000 expected and a revised +384,000 in May Unemployment rate: 3.6% vs. 3.6% expected and 3.6% in May Average hourly earnings, month-over-month: +0.3% vs. +0.3% expected and a revised +0.4% in May Average hourly earnings, year-over-year: +5.1% vs. +5.0%… Source link

Nearly a year ago, YouTube TV announced plans to add 5.1 surround sound support for its streaming TV package. When we spoke to YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan earlier this year on The Vergecast about new features rolling out for the platform, he told us it would arrive soon. Now, it’s here for more devices, including the most recent Chromecast with Google TV. The company announced that, in addition to previously existing surround sound support on traditional Chromecasts and… Source link

The wild fantasy football feud that has taken over Major League Baseball doesn’t stop with just Tommy Pham and Joc Pederson. It’s also far from over, even after Pham served his three-game suspension. The incident now apparently includes Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout, otherwise known as the “worst commissioner in fantasy sports.” If Trout would have simply run the league, Pham said jokingly, there wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. “Trout did a terrible job, man,”… Source link

Google Chat has replaced Hangouts and will now display banners warning you against potential phishing and malware attacks coming from personal accounts, Google announced on Thursday. This tweak for Google Chat is the latest expansion of Google’s attempts to prevent phishing. During its 2022 I/O developer conference, Google discussed several security measures it has implemented to enhance user safety, including warnings against potential security issues and recommendations to fix them…. Source link