Evidence of a U.S. worker shortage is popping up from “help wanted” signs in store windows to the record number of Americans — 4.4 million — who quit their jobs in September. Employers are finding that the traditional ways of attracting new employees, like raising pay, aren’t necessarily effective. The one thing that’s more enticing to workers than anything else is remote work, said the chief executive of one of the nation’s largest job postings sites. And increasingly, job… Source link
Read More »Google rolling out Chrome 93 on Mac, Windows, Android, iOS
Following version 92’s release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, the next release of Google’s browser is rolling out. Chrome 93 is here today as a smaller update. Today, the Recently Closed menu (Overflow > History) only lets users restore Tab Groups in their entirety. Chrome 93 allows you to see what sites were in the collection, and just open individual pages: chrome://flags/#tab-restore-sub-menus With HTTPS adoption now pervasive, an experiment in Chrome 93 will replace… Source link
Read More »Google Calendar rolling out ‘Time Insights’ meeting stats
To help employees better manage their day, Google Calendar is introducing new “Time Insights” that let paid Workspace users see “how [their] time is spent across meetings and collaborators.” Announced for Calendar back in March, Google calls Time Insights a “personalized, analytical experience.” The goal of these stats is to: With the changes to our working environments in the past year, some people have more meetings and may feel less control over how their work time is… Source link
Read More »Google’s Fuchsia OS is rolling out to every first-gen Nest Hub
Google has started to push out the silent upgrade to its new Fuchsia operating system on first-gen Nest Hub devices (known as the Google Home Hub on release), meaning the secretive project will be broadly used by consumers after years of opaque development. The OS, which unlike Android isn’t based on Linux and uses a microkernel called Zircon, was previously made available to some devices enrolled in a preview program back in May. Now, Google has confirmed to 9to5Google that a new… Source link
Read More »Google Broad Core Algorithm Update Rolling Out June 2
Google is releasing a broad core algorithm update today on June 2, 2021. This will be followed by another core update in July. Google originally intended to pack more into today’s update, but couldn’t get everything ready in time. That’s the reason for releasing two core updates one month after another. It’s exceedingly rare for Google to roll out separate updates so close together. However, the company says most sites are unlikely to notice the impact of either of them. We’ll see… Source link
Read More »Google is now rolling out the May update to supported Pixels
It’s the first Monday of the month, and you know what that means? A Google update. Of Android. For its Pixel line. Well, those that are still supported anyway. We’re talking Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G, and Pixel 5. That’s the entire list. All of these devices aside from the Pixel 4a 5G and the Pixel 5 have build RQ2A.210505.002 headed towards them, while the Pixel 4a 5G and the Pixel 5 get build RQ2A.210505.003. As usual with… Source link
Read More »Trial of Google FLoC Trial Begins Rolling Out
PHOTO: supattra pongsuwan/EyeEm Goodbye, cookies. Hello FLoC? By now, marketers who rely on advertising and targeting through the Google machine likely know about the search giant’s plans for a third-party cookies alternative: the open-source Privacy Sandbox that intends to make cookie-tracking obsolete. It’s built on anonymized group-targeting principles vs. individuals. Google calls these groups “Federated Learning of Cohorts,” or FLoC, where brands won’t be able to determine… Source link
Read More »Google’s Password Checkup tool rolling out to Android devices
People who use devices running Android 9 or newer will be alerted if their login credentials have been stolen Google is extending its Password Checkup feature to Android in a bid to help people make their online accounts more secure. Originally introduced as an extension for the Google Chrome web browser two years ago, the tool was later integrated into Chrome for… Source link
Read More »Google breaks SMS on many Android phones, is rolling back changes now
Enlarge / Google’s Messaging app. It’s broken now. Google If the text messages on your Android phone have suddenly stopped working, you’re not alone. Google pushed out a bad copy of the Carrier Services app, and the result was broken SMS on many Android phones. It also sounds like the company is rolling back the update and fixing the problem. Carrier Services is a little-known Android system component that popped up on the Play Store in 2017…. Source link
Read More »Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS in Android Messages beta
After two long, complicated years, every Android user worldwide (outside China and Russia) now has access to the next-gen texting standard that is replacing SMS. Google is directly offering RCS chat services through its Android Messages app to anybody who installs it and uses it as their default texting app, which partly bypasses a carrier rollout that, at times, has ranged from sluggish to incoherent to broken. Just as importantly, Google has announced that it’s finally beginning to… Source link
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