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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s cloud division has formed a group to build business around blockchain applications, following efforts to grow in retail, health care, and other industries. Success could help Google further diversify away from advertising and become more prominent in the growing market for computing and storage services delivered from remote third-party data… Source link

DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on counts of first-degree murder and more in the August 2020 killings in Green Valley Ranch. It took months before a break in the case, with the community fearful it was a targeted… Source link

If your Google Assistant-powered smart home display or speaker is rambling on and on after you asked it for the weather, you can now tell it to “stop” without having to say “Hey Google” first. It’s a small, but welcome, change and one that makes interacting with a digital assistant just a little more natural. Google’s smart home devices have had a version of this feature for years, where you could silence an alarm without saying “Hey Google.” It’s nice to see it… Source link

Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.98% ’s Google and AARP want to help older people improve their digital skills.  The AARP Foundation said the new program, aided by a $10 million grant from Google’s philanthropic arm, will aim to train 25,000 people ages 50 and older on helping them use digital skills to advance in their careers.  AARP, the Washington-based advocacy group for older adults, said the… Source link

A while back, Google said that it was on board with the idea that cookies–the little pieces of software code that websites use to do all sorts of things like keeping you logged in, to letting an advertiser know when you’ve clicked on their ad and then made a purchase–were bad. At least, the third-party kind–the ones that track your activity across the internet. Those types of cookies would be blocked in Chrome by 2023.   Except, because Google–like every advertising platform–uses… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo Jan 25 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) is slated to hire 200 engineers in Brazil this year, as it seeks to bolster its privacy, security, and anti-abusive content technologies, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, its director of engineering for Latin America, told Reuters on Tuesday. The 2023 hiring push would double the current number of engineers working in… Source link

Jan 25 (Reuters) – Allegations that Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury, an Arizona judge ruled on Tuesday, refusing to toss out a lawsuit brought by the state’s attorney general. Google had sought summary judgment to get the case against it thrown out at an early stage. It had argued that the state had failed to show that its consumer fraud law could apply and noted that the company’s disclosures about… Source link

Recently, I got Slacked by a colleague who was really annoyed and had to let off a bit of steam. It seems that a writer had shared a new Google Docs article with them (a usual way of submitting a freelance piece), and when my colleague opened the article, they found another, unknown person was already reading it — somebody who was definitely not on our staff. What had happened? The writer, probably in too much of a hurry to share the document with specific people, had simply made it… Source link

When Google announced a plan to block digital tracking cookies from its Chrome web browser two years ago, the advertising industry and regulators worried that the proposal would further entrench the search giant’s dominance over online ads. The outcry eventually forced Google to delay its rollout by nearly two years to late 2023. On Tuesday, Google said it was scrapping its old plan and offered a new way to block third-party trackers in Chrome with an online advertising system called Topics…. Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google sued in US over ‘deceptive’ location tracking  BBC News Source link