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Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly available databases members can contribute to and reuse across companies and apps. It will additionally use open data that already exists from… Source link

Google has made significant changes to its Quality Rater Guidelines (QRG) for search. While Google updates this document several times per year, the latest version, updated today, came with notable changes to the structure of the document, with many new sections and tables added and a total of 11 new pages worth of content.  While there are dozens of important details about what changed, arguably the most important change was the introduction of… Source link

The Matter standard can only simplify the use of smart home devices from various brands if products actually support it. Today, Google has announced that it has enabled Matter support for its Nest and Android devices — you don’t even have to download or install any update. That means the Google Home speaker, Google Home Mini, Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub (1st and 2nd gen), Nest Hub Max and the new Nest WiFi Pro, can now serve as a hub for Matter that you can use to control your smart… Source link

The new private media picker is available for Android 4.4+ devices Among the myriad of improvements and new features in Android 13, Google also debuted a more private media picker. The new solution was a part of Google Play Services, which allowed the company to backport it to Android 4.4 KitKat, an OS that was released nine years ago. Up until early November, Google Voice was among the first apps to take advantage of the new media picker, with other apps still… Source link

Google Docs is getting a new feature that will make it easier to show code in an easy-to-understand way. The company announced that it’s adding code blocks to its “smart canvas” system, which will automatically add the proper spacing and color-coding for a variety of programming languages, such as Python, C, and Javascript. Before this, getting code to look nice in Google Docs required workarounds or add-ons, which weren’t necessarily the most convenient. While that wasn’t the end… Source link

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Enlarge / Everything except the earbuds are on sale. Google Black Friday might have come and gone, but Google’s Black Friday deals are still trucking. Google reimplemented many of the deals this week, which were the first and/or best discounts we’ve seen for many of Google’s new products. The highlight of the group is definitely the Pixel 6a, but you get decent deals on the Pixel 7, Pixel Watch, Chromecasts,… Source link

Image: Getty/MoMo Productions Google asked security researchers at NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of its new VPN by Google One, and the results have now been published. Security assessments like these are a useful tool when trying to understand the relative security of the many different VPN services on the market. The Google One VPN apps for Android and iOS and its new Windows and macOS VPN apps stood up well to a security source code review by NCC Group, but although the firm… Source link

Image: Getty/MoMo Productions Google asked security researchers at NCC Group to conduct a security assessment of its new VPN by Google One, and the results have now been published. Security assessments like these can serve as a useful tool for understanding the relative security of the many different VPN services on the market. The Google One VPN apps for Android and iOS and its new Windows and macOS VPN apps stood up well to a security source code review by NCC Group, but although the… Source link