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Google has asked the Federal Election Commission to green light a program that could keep campaign emails from ending up in spam folders, according to a filing obtained by Axios. Why it matters: Google has come under fire that its algorithms unfairly target conservative content across its services, and that its Gmail service filters more Republican fundraising and campaign emails to spam. Republican leadership introduced a bill this month that would require platforms to share how their… Source link

The White House has pushed hard this week to show America it is fighting inflation. The myriad actions range from an Oval Office meeting with Fed Chair Jerome Powell to an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal with President Biden’s byline to economic officials appearing on television at least 20 times on Tuesday alone — including top Biden adviser Brian Deese on Yahoo Finance. But the flurry comes after over a year where many have criticized policymakers in Washington for reacting too slowly as… Source link

Indian users of Google Messages are facing a deluge of ads within Android’s default messaging app, 9to5Google reports. Users are reporting being sent multiple ads a day, even if they enable the app’s Spam Protection feature, and blocking and reporting the offending accounts doesn’t appear to prevent ads from different companies appearing. Many of the worst offenders appear to be ads for personal loans, gambling companies, and life insurance. As 9to5Google notes, companies appear to… Source link

With all the apps that we tend to have running on our phones, it’s a constant worry as to whether the battery will be able to make it through the day — and that’s not helped when apps misfire and run power-draining features in the background. According to 9to5Google, a recent bug in Google’s Messages app on Android phones left the camera running in the background — a great way to both heat up your phone and run down your battery. The Google Messages app allows you to easily… Source link

Just this morning, I was sitting in my car waiting for Alternate Side of the Street parking to end (a dance that many car-owning New Yorkers go through) and texted my partner to come take his turn. As normal, I used the Messages app on my Pixel 6 phone to contact him and waited for the usual reply (“On my way!” or “Be there in a few!”), but after about four minutes or so, I realized that I hadn’t had a response. When I checked the app, I saw that the text hadn’t been sent —… Source link

All those conversations right at your fingertips After a decade of fumbling for a solution for its messaging woes, it seems like Google has finally settled on one. Messages is the company’s latest service. It combines old-school SMS with RCS capabilities to create a competent client — assuming you aren’t texting someone on iOS, of course. It’s loaded with all sorts of cool tricks to make messaging a lot easier, like the option to text right from your… Source link

In recent years, tech giants and other companies have come under scrutiny on how they collect and use user data. Google itself has focused on making privacy improvements to its products and services in response. However, it looks like its efforts did not go far enough. A new research paper reveals that Google’s Messages and Dialer/Phone apps have been collecting and sending scrambled user data to its servers, potentially violating the European Union’s GDPR. Douglas Leith, a computer… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads… Source link

We’ve known for months that Google has been working to make its Messaging app properly display emoji reactions sent by iPhone users. Now Google is making the feature available to all as part of a host of new and updated features for its Messages app that are rolling out over the coming weeks. The beta already gave us a pretty good idea of how Google Messages translates emoji reactions sent by iOS users, properly formatting them on Android instead of appearing as a confusing text… Source link

A lot more people might be about to start using Rich Communication Services (RCS), the new messaging standard that has had a long and messy rollout, as Google’s Messages app looks to be the new messaging default for newer Samsung devices. While the Galaxy S21 lineup shipped with Samsung Messages by default last year in the US, 9to5Google noticed its Galaxy S22 Plus review unit had Google Messages set as the default when set up from scratch, and that’s the case with The Verge’s… Source link