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Google is to lay off 12,000 employees amid something of a pandemic reckoning for technology companies that recruited heavily in recent years and are now facing harsh realities of a cooling economy. In an email sent to employees today, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent Alphabet, said: “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match this and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.” In calendar Q1 of 2020,… Source link

Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing. The cases filed in the Midwestern state and the capital are similar to those settled elsewhere in the US in the last 12 months and center on allegations that Google deceived users into handing over location data,… Source link

Google has added client-side encryption for some email customers, allowing enterprise and education Gmail users to send and receive encrypted messages. The service encrypts email messages in the client’s browser before they are transmitted or stored in Google Cloud. It allows Gmail customers — not the cloud provider — to retain control over encryption keys, thus ensuring Google servers can’t access the keys or decrypt customer data in the body of the email or delivered as an… Source link

Google has disclosed how much water its datacenters consume, following a legal battle between a local media outlet and the city of The Dalles in Oregon, which sought to keep the information confidential. The figures show that the search giant consumed 274.5 million gallons (about 1.2 billion liters) of water during 2021 at its facilities in The Dalles alone. This is dwarfed by the 845.8 million gallons (3.8 billion liters) consumed by Google datacenter infrastructure at Council Bluffs in… Source link

Ten days after Yandex confirmed a review of its operations that include moving IP out of Russia and selling much of the remainder locals, it has hired an ally of President Vladimir Putin to help out with the restructure. Alexei Kudrin, described as a longtime Putin ally and who resigned as head of Russia’s Audit Chamber last week, has confirmed that he will be joining Yandex to advise on corporate development. Kudrin was appointed as finance minister in 2000 when Putin started his first… Source link

Russia’s most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local interests. Yandex is a sprawling conglomerate often characterized as Russia’s Google. It started as a search company, then moved into advertising, maps, e-commerce, cloud, and software for self-driving cars. Like its Silicon Valley analogs, Yandex also looked for a more advantageous jurisdiction for its headquarters and picked The… Source link

Russia’s most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local interests. Yandex is a sprawling conglomerate often characterized as Russia’s Google. It started as a search company, then moved into advertising, maps, e-commerce, cloud, and software for self-driving cars. Like its Silicon Valley analogs, Yandex also looked for a more advantageous jurisdiction for its headquarters and picked The… Source link

Google’s resistance to allowing third-party payment systems to touch its Play digital store appear to be ebbing away, with the search and ads giant last week announcing it has commenced tests of payment choice in the USA. Citing “strong interest from developers around the world” after a May 2022 announcement of third=party payments pilot in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the European Economic Area, Google last week declared “that based on the positive response and initial… Source link

The taxi offshoot of troubled Russian tech giant Yandex has been hit by online pranksters, who yesterday ordered dozens of cabs to a single address in central Moscow, resulting in a major traffic jam. Kutuzovsky Prospekt sporting its usual weekday traffic Breaching the security defences of Yandex Taxi, a division of “Russia’s Google” Yandex, the internet intruders were then able to send available vehicles for hire to the same address. Hundreds of them, by the looks of it. Around three… Source link

Google Cloud is turning off its IoT services as of August 2023, leaving customers with less than a year to find alternatives. In a missive to customers, Google Cloud said: “We’re writing to let you know that Google Cloud IoT Core Service will be discontinued on August 15 2023 at which point your access to the IoT Core Device Manager API will no longer be available.” IoT devices using the service will be unable to connect to MQTT and HTTP bridges after that date, the note said. … Source link