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Google to Employees: Don’t ‘Get Distracted’ by Antitrust Case – BloombergQuint

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Google reveals a new Windows zero-day bug it says is under active attack – TechCrunch

Google has dropped details of a previously undisclosed vulnerability in Windows, which it says hackers are actively exploiting. As a result, Google gave Microsoft just a week to fix the vulnerability. That deadline came and went, and Google published details of the vulnerability this afternoon. The vulnerability has no name but is labeled CVE-2020-17087, and affects at least Windows 7 and Windows 10. Google’s Project Zero, the elite group of security bug hunters which made the… Source link

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Q3 earnings find Apple and Google looking to the future for hardware rebounds – TechCrunch

“5G is a once-in-a-decade kind of opportunity,” Tim Cook told the media during the Q&A portion of Apple’s Q3 earnings call. “And we could not be more excited to hit the market exactly when we did.” The truth of the matter is its timing was a mixed bag. Apple was, by some accounts, late to 5G. By the time the company finally announced that it was adding the technology across its lineup of iPhone 12 variants, much of its competition had already beat the company to the punch. Of… Source link

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How the Google case could play out as an epic court battle begins

The government hasn’t yet specified what remedies it would seek to correct Google’s conduct, should it win a monopoly judgment, though the U.S. is expected to seek a court order preventing Google from continuing to form exclusionary agreements with device manufacturers. The lawsuit hints that the U.S. would seek a structural fix, which could amount to a breakup of Google or a forced divestiture of assets. That might be overkill, according to antitrust lawyers. “A much more effective remedy… Source link

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What the Tech? How Google and Apple track you too | What The Tech?

Halloween is a spooky time of year and some people might get a fright just opening an app on their smartphone. We’re all aware that the big tech companies track our lives online and in real life, but it’s pretty scary when you see what data and information these companies keep all in one place. One example is your Google searches. Everything you’ve ever entered… Source link

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Are We About To See Apple Vs Google In The Battle Of The Search Engines?

How a supposed Apple search engine could look like E. Dans The Financial Times says Apple has likely been working for some time on its own search engine in a bid to steal quota from Google, which in many countries has market shares of over 90%, giving it an alternative as its arrangements with the Mountain View company to make its search engine the default option on Apple devices comes under antitrust scrutiny, and backed by the idea of a search option that… Source link

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“Can I Change My Vote” Trends on Google

OHIO — Early Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted, saying “Can I change my vote?” was trending on Google — which led to millions of others to question whether they could in their state.  Strongly Trending (Google) since immediately after the second debate is CAN I CHANGE MY VOTE? This refers changing it to me. The answer in most states is YES. Go do it. Most important Election of your life! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2020 Google Trends shows more people did… Source link

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Google One now includes a VPN perk starting with 2TB plan

(Pocket-lint) – Google has fleshed out its Google One service with a new perk that is designed to protect your online privacy while on the go.  From 29 October 2020, if you’re a Google One subscriber, you can get access to a new virtual private network (VPN) feature inside the Google One app. You… Source link

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Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google all produce record sales amid Big Tech backlash

Federal antitrust charges against Alphabet Inc.’s Google; advertiser and user boycotts of Facebook Inc.; increasing scrutiny of Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. by the news media and government regulators — all in the middle of a pandemic. Yet, when Big Tech reported earnings en masse Thursday, most of the effects felt by those companies appeared to be positive: Amazon AMZN, +1.52%, Apple AAPL, +3.70%, Facebook FB,

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Google is bringing its own VPN to desktops and phones with $9.99 Google One subscription

There are any number of VPN services you can use to help protect your privacy and security with an encrypted internet connection, and now Google has its own. Well, technically, it already did, but only for Google Fi cellular subscribers on Android smartphones. Now, the company’s announcing it’ll throw in an Android-based VPN free of charge to any 2TB Google One cloud storage subscriber in the US — and will expand to iOS, Windows and Mac and other countries “in the coming… Source link

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