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Google Meet adds live captions on the web for French, German, Portuguese and Spanish

Google Meet adds live captions on the web for French, German, Portuguese and Spanish

Google Meet is adding live captions on the web in four languages to make meetings more inclusive, the company announced today. Live captions in Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese will be available across all versions of Meet starting today. Meet rolled out real-time captions in English last year. “We know from our work with teachers and parents over the years how essential caption tools can be for students with learning disabilities, as well as English-language learners in both… Source link

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Google and Amazon fined €135M over misuse of cookies by French data watchdog

Google and Amazon fined €135M over misuse of cookies by French data watchdog

France’s data protection regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés or CNIL, has fined Google and Amazon a total of €135 million (around $163 million) between them for violating the country’s data protection laws. Google was fined a total of €100 million (around $121 million), while Amazon was fined €35 million (around $42 million). In both cases, CNIL’s complaints were similar. It said that in the past, when users visited either company’s… Source link

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Google and Amazon fined for cookies breach by French privacy regulator

Google and Amazon fined for cookies breach by French privacy regulator

Getty Images; Chris Ratcliff | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, with Google… Source link

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Teenager asked pupils to identify French teacher before beheading him

Teenager asked pupils to identify French teacher before beheading him

By Sybille de La Hamaide and Thierry Chiarello PARIS/CONFLANS-SAINTE-HONORINE, France (Reuters) – The teenager who beheaded a teacher outside the school in a Paris suburb where he taught had approached pupils in the street and asked them to point out his victim, anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Saturday. Police shot dead the 18-year-old attacker, who was born in Russia, minutes after he murdered 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty in broad daylight in… Source link

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