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Five days. That’s how long you should isolate after testing positive for COVID before going back to normal life (while wearing a mask in public for five more days), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The CDC’s five-day quarantine policy for COVID cases is not law, but families, human resource departments, schools, and other institutions across the country depend on its advice for deciding how to return to normal life after a COVID infection. Scientists have questioned the… Source link

Google’s promise to protect the location history of users who visit abortion clinics is coming under scrutiny after researchers found that a user who had brief access to another user’s Android phone – such as a boyfriend logging into his girlfriend’s phone – could then relatively easily monitor the user’s movements. The finding by Tech Transparency Project, a research arm of the nonprofit Campaign for Accountability, comes weeks after Google announced in a blogpost that it would… Source link

(Bloomberg) –London data centers used by Google and Oracle Corp. buckled on Tuesday after a record-setting heat wave hit Britain, knocking some websites offline. Both companies cited problems with “cooling systems” for causing the outages. Oracle’s first message appeared on its service page in late morning New York time, noting that “unreasonable temperatures” had affected cloud and networking equipment in its South London… Source link

3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Google Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 19 (Reuters) – A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Cloud said it was a “cooling related” failure at one of the… Source link

A previously unknown macOS backdoor, called CloudMensis, gathers information from victims by exfiltrating documents, keystrokes and screen captures from compromised Macs. The backdoor was discovered by ESET researchers in April and disclosed on Tuesday. Researchers don’t know how the malware is initially distributed or who the targets are, but its “limited distribution” – with 51 victims observed between February and April – suggests it may be used as part of a very… Source link

Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were last year ordered to carry out a risk assessment around the processing of personal data by Google. In a verdict published last week, Denmark’s data protection agency, Datatilsynet, revealed that data processing involving students using Google’s cloud-based Workspace software suite — which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar, and Google Drive… Source link

Figures from Google, one of the most prolific collectors of location data, show that the company received 5,764 “geofence” warrants between 2018 and 2020 from police in the 10 states that have banned abortion as of July 5. These warrants demand GPS data showing which mobile devices were present in a specified area during a particular time period, and can help investigate individuals who were present at crime scenes or other locations of interest. Google doesn’t specify what alleged… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world. A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence. Phaidra, a company based in Seattle, sells AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial giants. It’s relying on the same fix as their former company, DeepMind, Google’s research lab. For several years, DeepMind has let its AI… Source link

Arghhhh! Inflation is really bad right now. The annualized inflation rate jumped from 8.6% in May to 9.1% in June, the highest level since 1981. Everybody who drives a car knows skyrocketing gasoline prices are one of the principal culprits. Plus, food prices are up 12% year-over-year, leaving families little choice but to shell out more for essentials. There are also signs that some types of inflation are running their course, as consumers adapt and pandemic-related supply-chain kinks… Source link

The logo of Google is seen at the high profile startups and high tech leaders gathering, Viva Tech,in Paris, France May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MILAN, July 14 (Reuters) – Italy’s competition authority AGCM said on Thursday it had launched an investigation against Google (GOOGL.O)for suspected abuse of its dominant position in data portability, an accusation the Alphabet unit denied. The watchdog said in a statement that… Source link