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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google has fixed a bug in Android 14 that locked Pixel users out of their devices  Yahoo! Voices Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs on Friday.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. He hoped Google’s layoffs were a “wake-up call” to other tech workers who were still in their jobs. A Google engineer who was recently laid off said he was locked out of the company’s online system 20 minutes after finding out… Source link

Homebuyers who were able to buy over the past years or owners who locked in dramatically low mortgage rates by refinancing are not selling as those same rates climb. “That’s going to continue likely for the rest of this year, as affordability challenges really reign [over] buyers’ budgets and sellers’ decisions on whether or not to list their homes,” Zillow Economist Nicole Bachaud told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). The housing market is in the midst of a major shift as the Federal… Source link

Russian banker Mikhail Fridman has a net worth of $10 billion.AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko Russian banker Mikhail Fridman stepped down from the board of the investment firm he cofounded. Fridman was barred from entering LetterOne’s offices and speaking to employees, per the FT. The billionaire is among oligarchs sanctioned by the EU in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian billionaire and banker, Mikhail Fridman, was locked out of the investment firm he cofounded after he was hit by… Source link

Google Photos’ Locked Folder feature, which promises to keep sensitive photos out of your main photo roll, is starting to roll out to non-Pixel phones, according to Android Police. Google said in September that the feature would be rolling out to more Android phones “soon,” and it’s reportedly started to show up on some Samsung and OnePlus devices, according to Android Central. Older Pixel devices that didn’t originally get access to it are also getting it now, based on our… Source link

Google Photos looking for a way to hide their pictures from others on your phone can use the app’s native Locked Folder feature. It lets you hide your pictures and videos in a passcode-protected space. This will allow you to keep your media content hidden when someone looks at the photos and videos saved on Google Photos or any other app on your phone. You can also move your existing pictures to the locked folder in Google Photos to protect them with your device’s screen lock. Introduced in… Source link

A bad update to Chrome OS, version 91.0.4472.165, has left some users unable to log in to their accounts, or reportedly with boot-looping computers (via Android Central). If you’ve found yourself locked out of your Chromebook, help is on the way: Google posted on its system status page that it’s working on a fix, which it expects to release on Wednesday. It’s also pulled the update, which should prevent more users from experiencing the issue. According to Google, the only options to… Source link

Google announced a series of upgrades to its Google Photos service, used by over a billion users, at today’s Google I/O developer event, which was virtually streamed this year due to Covid. The company is rolling out Locked Folders, new types of photo “Memories” for reminiscing over past events, as well as a new feature called “Cinematic moments” that will animate a series of static photos, among other updates. Today, Google Photos stores over 4 trillion photos and videos, but… Source link

Wednesday, December 16, 2020 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe A scorched-Earth campaign Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) have one of the fiercest business rivalries in the world, and the tech giants just launched dual scorched earth campaigns that could hurt both companies’ businesses. The tech titans have been at each other’s… Source link