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Syringes in front of Google logos. NurPhoto via Getty Images Coronavirus became etched into popular culture after the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread across the globe in 2020, but people have been aware of coronaviruses for decades. Was ‘coronavirus’ well-known before the Covid-19 pandemic? One way to estimate a word’s popularity is to ask Google. More specifically, you can use Ngram Viewer, a tool that displays a graph of how frequently phrases appeared in… Source link

Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized top rivals Amazon Web Services and Google Friday for not publicly sharing what they know about the SolarWinds attack. Smith told House of Representatives members that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has published 32 blogs describing whatever Microsoft has observed and seen from the SolarWinds attackers during their campaign, while Google has published just one blog and Amazon hasn’t published anything. AWS admitted Thursday the… Source link

Two new reports from Bloomberg and Wired have shed light on some of Google’s failures in building its Stadia cloud gaming service. The reports come just a few weeks after Google announced it would be shutting down its in-house Stadia game development studios. One key issue, according to Wired, is that Google may not have put as much investment in its internal studios as its much-hyped plans for Stadia may have suggested. Stadia chief Phil Harrison announced Google’s Stadia Games and… Source link

Currents is the enterprise social network you might not have known your Google Workspace organization needed, or even had. Google discussed Currents during a session at Google Next in 2019. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic What’s Hot at… Source link

Google recently announced the release of new lead form extensions that had been in beta since the fall of 2019, as reported by DMS Insights. After users click on ads in search, video and Google Discover, the new (and improved) lead form extensions appear without requiring users to click through to landing pages or websites, as reported by Carolyn Lyden for Search Engine Land (SEL). After a Google lead form extension form is completed, users can opt to keep searching or click… Source link

Chances are, if you don’t own a smartwatch, you probably rely on your phone to monitor your sleeping habits. While there’s no shortage of apps that claim to do the job, not all of them are up to the task. And Android, in particular, has been caught lagging in the snooze-tracking department. Thankfully, Google is looking to change that by making its low-power Sleep API publicly available, according to Droid Life. That means developers can now (theoretically) use the toolkit to upgrade existing… Source link

Chinese Tech giant Huawei marked a milestone in its ambitions to become the world’s leading smartphone maker this week, launching its first device powered by HarmonyOS, an operating system developed in-house. But Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, said the company is still hoping for a reunion with Google’s (GOOG) Android operating system. “Our commitment is that we want to be able to go back to Google,” Purdy told Yahoo Finance Live. “But we are doubling down to try… Source link

On Thursday, a consumer filed a class-action complaint against Google and its parent company Alphabet, Inc. in the Central District of California for allegedly “refus(ing) to redeem Google Play gift cards in accordance with California law.” According to the complaint, Google Play is “Google’s software application (a/k/a ‘app’) store, which allows users to download applications, electronic books, music, and the like” to their devices. The plaintiff stated that Google… Source link

You should switch to Google Messages if you don’t already use it.  Andrew Hoyle/CNET … Source link

Google announced the availability of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot, a fully-managed and operated Kubernetes environment for Google Cloud customers. The underlying infrastructure is completely hidden from users while exposing the environment needed for running cloud native workloads.  Drone in Autopilot Mode Pixabay Google Kubernetes Engine is one of the first managed container orchestration services available in the public cloud. Since its… Source link