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Google Home, the companion app for Google’s smart home products, is changing the way users interact with photos on the app and on Nest Hub devices. 9to5Google first noticed the changes, which include a revamped Photo Frame settings menu. Now, when you use Google Home to change the displayed album while your Nest Hub is idle, you’ll see a carousel-style UI that gives you the option to choose from curated groups of photos, categorized as “Select family & friends,” “Recent… Source link

There’s a new Internet provider in town, and they’re on a mission to take on the Goliaths that so many of us are frustrated with, while ultimately delivering affordable, accessible Internet to billions of people. Including the underserved communities that are the hardest to reach. After routers, installations, hidden fees, upcharges, the average household in the US pays about $80/month.  Rather than using traditional fiber-optic cables that make super-fast Wifi unaffordable for low… Source link

A “Google tax” introduced by the coalition government to crack down on multinationals shifting profits overseas has been criticised as a “total failure”, as new documents show it is predicted to raise no money over the next six years. The diverted profits tax, introduced in 2015, was hailed as a pioneering effort to tackle multinationals who were reducing their UK corporation tax by shifting profits overseas. It was predicted by officials that the tax would raise up to £400m a year,… Source link

The ability to quickly find the answer to just about any question changes how people perceive their own intelligence, research finds. People lose sight of where their memory ends and where the internet begins, the findings indicate. “When we’re constantly connected to knowledge, the boundaries between internal and external knowledge begin to blur and fade,” says Adrian Ward, assistant professor of marketing in the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. “We… Source link

I am leaning against a wall outside my secondary school in my home town of Canterbury, waiting for my mother to pick me up. She is late, as usual. I rest my head on the stone wall, which is obsidian smooth with the occasional sharp edge. I can feel a flinty knuckle of rock pressing into the base of my skull. I shift uncomfortably in my non-regulation high heels and watch the other parents come and go. I am irritated and worried I won’t have enough time to finish my GCSE coursework that… Source link

Chrome’s 2.6 billion users again need to be on high alert (for the fourth time this month). Google has confirmed multiple new High-level hacks of the browser, and they are an immediate threat. Google has confirmed multiple new Chrome security vulnerabilities, including new zero day hacks LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Critics Explain Why You Should Quit ChromeBy Gordon Kelly Following confirmation of five serious vulnerabilities last… Source link

LISBON, PORTUGAL – NOVEMBER 08: Megan Jones Bell, Headspace, at the HealthConf stage during day … [+] three of Web Summit 2018 at the Altice Arena on November 8, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2018, more than 70,000 attendees from over 170 countries will fly to Lisbon for Web Summit, including over 1,500 startups, 1,200 speakers and 2,600 international journalists. (Photo by David Fitzgerald /Web Summit via Getty Images) Web Summit via Getty Images Megan Jones… Source link

Some of the biggest technology companies in the world, Google and Microsoft, are reinforcing their relationships with U.S. community colleges.  “Today, we’re so excited to announce that all of our Google career certificates will be available for free, to every community college in the United States and to every career and technical high school in the United States,” Lisa Gevelber, founder of Grow with Google, tells CNBC Make It. “One of the other things we actually announced today, which I… Source link

Next year’s Pixel 7 might look slightly different, but it’s likely to continue utilizing Google’s TPU chip. Photo: Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are just now arriving on buyers’ doorsteps, and we’re already talking about what’s next for Google’s flagship Android lineup. Evidence points to a next-gen Tensor chip in the Pixel 7. According to 9to5Google, whose tear-apart team tinkered with the apps built into the Pixel 6, there’s a clear indicator that a… Source link

Google’s Project Jacquard touch-sensitive fabric technology, first revealed at Google I/O in 2015, now has a way for interested third-party developers to integrate the tech with their own software via the new Jacquard SDK. Previously only a handful of companies signed up for Jacquard, including Levi’s, Samsonite, and Yves Saint Laurent. Now developers can use the SDK to integrate the Jacquard tag, connecting its sensors with their apps to communicate touch and motion data. … Source link