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Google is under fire for information it allegedly collects from users in incognito mode. Getty Images … Source link

Q: I am completely lost in my attempt to find and move files from my Google drive to a SD card on my Android tablet. I would like to have access to these files with or without internet access. Can you provide me with insight concerning if and how the files can be moved in this manner? A: Google Drive offers two ways of accessing your files. One is the ability to download them as needed without consuming space on your device. This is usually… Source link

The cookie is dead. Long live the cookie. Google, the internet search giant, said last week that it’s done tracking us as we skate around the web. It promises that after fully eliminating its use of third-party cookies over the next year, it won’t adopt replacements that essentially do the same thing. That doesn’t mean Google won’t continue scooping up first-party information it collects directly from users when they visit sites and services it controls. It also doesn’t mean that… Source link

People have been left baffled by what appears to be a ship floating in the air, as it hangs above the water.  British man David Morris snapped a photo of the ship in waters off the coast of Cornwall in England’s southwest, capturing the rare optical illusion. Mr Morris’s son told Cornwall Live the sighting left the pair “amazed and very baffled”. David Morris snapped this photo of what appears to be a ship floating on thin air. Source: David Morris/ APEX On social media, people were left… Source link

In preparation for its launch as an internet provider in West Des Moines, Google Fiber has secured a new office and retail space in Valley Junction.  Google Fiber will occupy the ground floor of the nearly complete Junction House mixed-use building at 329 Fifth St. in the historic business district, according to leasing agent R&R Realty Group. Google expects to open in October.  West Des Moines is investing nearly $40 million in a partnership with Google Fiber to bring to the city the… Source link

MOSCOW, February 24. /TASS/. Russian IT giant Yandex once again maintaned the leading position in the rating of the most expensive companies in the Russian segment of the Internet, published by Forbes. According to the report, the value of the company reached $22.98 bln. Yandex has been maintaining the title of the most expensive player in the Russian Internet segment for the third year in a row – in 2020 the company was worth $14.6 bln, and in 2021 it has risen in price more than… Source link

Maryland’s first-in-the-nation law taxing digital advertising by Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google is being challenged in federal court as “a punitive assault” on digital advertising and should be struck down, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by leading trade associations. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, contends the law “is illegal in myriad ways.” It alleges the law violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits… Source link

Benzinga What Keystone Pipeline Cancellation Means For Crude-by-rail President Joe Biden’s revocation of the March 2019 permit enabling the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline will likely result in more crude-by-rail volumes, according to industry observers. But how much volumes will increase could largely depend on the price that heavy crude oil can fetch in the global market. “The cancellation of the Keystone pipeline project was inevitable once the government changed. Despite its… Source link

SYDNEY — A showdown between the Australian government and Google is approaching a conclusion, with the outcome likely to have effects across the globe. In December, the government became the first in the world to introduce legislation that would force tech giants to pay local news outlets for featuring and linking to their stories. Google balked, warning that the proposed news media bargaining code would “break a fundamental principle of how the web works” and threatened to pull its… Source link

Internet users across the northeast U.S. reported widespread outages Tuesday. In an emailed statement 90 minutes after the outage was first reported, Verizon said it was working on the problem hurting Fios service “throughout the Northeast corridor” and that some service had already been restored. The telecom giant had reported a cut fiber in Brooklyn via Twitter, although it’s not clear if that issue was responsible for the outage. Verizon didn’t give any estimate in… Source link