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Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will make signing in to a site a bit more straightforward. Image Credits: Google Chrome already uses the W3C WebAuthn standard for biometric authentication on Windows and Mac. With this update, this feature is now also coming to Android . If you’ve ever bought something through the browser on… Source link

Google Pixel 4a teaser Google Google on Thursday added a teaser page to the Google Store that says its new phone, expected to be called the Pixel 4a, will launch on Aug. 3. The new phone is largely expected to be a successor to last year’s Pixel 3a, pictured below, which launched for $399 but offered some of the flagship features of the more expensive Pixel 3, such as the high-end camera. Google hasn’t managed to make a huge splash in the U.S. smartphone market, which is dominated by Apple and… Source link

Google’s next budget phone, the Pixel 4A, is likely just days away from going on sale. The company has posted a teaser on its online store, saying that “the Google just what you’ve been waiting for phone” will be revealed on August 3rd. 9to5Google spotted the page. To unlock the full message, you need to tap the various boxes until the colors match Google’s logo: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and red. Google has also updated some of its social media images (like the header for… Source link

Google is extending its support for Black-owned businesses an update to Google My Business and an announcement of two new initiatives. Businesses in the US with a verified Google My Business profile will be able to add a “Black-owned” attribute for everyone to see. In addition, as part of a $300 million commitment to support underrepresented entrepreneurs, the attribute will be added to Google’s digital skills training programs offered to Black business owners. Through the Google for… Source link

If you have a Google account, you have access to an instant messaging app that doesn’t require a screen name: Google Chat. You don’t even need to go far to find it — Google Chat is built right into your Gmail inbox. Here’s how to use Google Chat in any internet browser on your Mac or PC. Check out the products mentioned in this article: Apple Macbook Pro (From $1,299.00 at Apple) Acer Chromebook 15 (From $179.99 at Walmart) How to use Google Chat First, you need to… Source link

The Google consent management platform (CMP) Funding Choices will finally integrate with the IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), the collaborative industry solution for passing consent data signals in the supply chain. Google also said Thursday that Funding Choices now includes compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). When traffic is from the EU or from California, Google will serve consent messages (aka pop-ups) that request explicit consent in… Source link

Fitbit Charge 2 Heart Rate & Fitness Wristband. Source: Amazon Google’s $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Alphabet unit Google this month offered not to use Fitbit’s health data to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns. The opening of a full-scale investigation suggests that this is not sufficient. The deal, announced last November, would see… Source link

Google announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, U.K. and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. Tech giant first revealed the Curie project last January, alongside two other new cables as first major non-telecom company to build a private international cable.  The cable — named Grace Hopper after the American computer programming pioneer — will provide “better resilience for the network that underpins Google’s consumer and enterprise… Source link

Google One, the cloud storage service that Google launched back in 2018, will now backup your iOS or Android phone for free with your Google account. The iOS app will be able to backup your photos, videos, contacts and calendar events, consolidating what’s offered by different services like Photos and Drive into one place, Android Authority notes. Meanwhile the Android app, which could already backup a range of files from your phone, will now offer backups without a Google One… Source link

Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. The wife of Scott Hassan, robotics entrepreneur and principal programmer of the Google search engine, is suing Morrison & Foerster for being a “willing architect and facilitator” of Hassan’s scheme to “cheat” her out of millions of dollars after she filed for divorce in 2015. Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: Free access… Source link