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PHOTO: yoni Google’s cookie execution will have to wait. Another two years, in fact.  The search engine giant announced June 24 it will delay Chrome’s phase-out of third-party cookies to over a three-month period starting in mid-2023 and ending in late 2023. Google originally announced in early 2020 it would phase out cookies within two years, or by the end of 2022, meaning this could be a near two-year delay. Google also plans to end trials of its cookies alternative — the… Source link

Security-system provider ADT Inc. is betting on its partnership with Google’s smart-home business to increase revenue as it struggles to turn a profit three years after going public. The company, best known for its home alarm systems, last summer announced the deal with Google, whose Nest business makes thermostats and smoke detectors that customers can monitor from their phones. Under the agreement, Alphabet Inc.’s Google… Source link

The Lenovo Smart Clock and Smart Clock Essential are both functional, attractive alarm clocks with some extra smart home capabilities. Today, Lenovo has announced the next in line: the Lenovo Smart Clock 2. The big news is that the Google Assistant-powered Smart Clock 2 can come with an optional wireless charging dock, which can juice up Qi-compatible devices. This dock can also act as what Lenovo describes as “a soft, ambient nightlight.” Beyond that, Lenovo says the new Smart… Source link

ATLANTA, June 27, 2021  /PRNewswire/ — Southface Institute announced today that Google’s 6th Street campus in Kirkland, Washington is the first office campus in the world to certify its operations under Southface’s BIT Building program. Successful certification under BIT reflects Google’s adoption of the program’s 16 Best Practices for resource efficiency and sustainability. Google is first office campus in the world to certify its operations under… Source link

Google is offering Android app developers a lowered Google Play commission rate if they agree to add deeper integration for Google platforms like WearOS and Android Auto in their apps. Like Apple’s App Store, Google charges a 30% commission fee for transactions in the Google Play Store. While it has already announced one program to reduce the fee for some developers, it has introduced a second that could make the change more permanent for larger apps. Called the Play Media Experience… Source link

Google’s “Downtown West” proposal is Google’s fist mix-used campus, comprising of 80 sprawling acres in downtown San Jose. Sitelab Urban Studio Google‘s path to its massive tech campus planning in San Jose began with activists chaining themselves to chairs inside City Hall over the city’s decision to sell public land to the tech giant. It ended with some of its biggest opponents signing its praises. Last month, the San Jose City Council approved Google’s plan for a mixed-use megacampus that… Source link

There is a chance that not many people, outside Olympic historians, have ever heard the name Tommy Kono. Google Doogle is making sure that never happens again and that he is always remembered.  On Sunday, Google honored Kono on what would have been his 91st birthday with a Doodle animation depicting the clean and jerk, one of the more common weightlifting exercises.  Kono was held in an internment camp during World War II at the age of 12, one of more… Source link

Getty Images Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their skin. Now, Google is preparing to launch an app that uses image recognition algorithms to provide more expert and personalized help. A brief demo at the company’s developer conference last month showed the service suggesting several possible skin conditions based on uploaded photos. Machines have matched or

Happy birthday, Tommy Kono. Google In 1942, the then-12-year-old Tommy Kono was forced into an… Source link

Google has been the undisputed king of search for decades, with the meager attempts of Microsoft and the upstart, privacy-focused DuckDuckGo failing to coax many users away. Estimates of Google’s global search market dominance range from between 70% to 90%, though Microsoft’s Bing appears to have gained some small ground over the last couple of years. Now, as both users and regulators are increasingly demanding greater security and better privacy, the company behind the… Source link