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Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy

Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy

Enlarge / Google’s safe browsing warning is not subtle. Google Google Chrome’s “Safe Browsing” feature—the thing that pops up a giant red screen when you try to visit a malicious website—is getting real-time updates for all users. Google announced the change on the Google Security Blog. Real-time protection naturally means sending URL data to some far-off server, but Google says it will use “privacy-preserving… Source link

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Google says it’s improving fingerprint scanner performance with a Pixel 6 update

Google quietly rolled out a Pixel 6 update that addresses fingerprint scanner issues, as first reported by XDA Developers. The update details have been confirmed in a post on a Google Support page, which vaguely notes that it includes “minor bug fixes and some fingerprint sensor performance improvements for Pixel 6 and 6 Pro,” without really giving us any details about how the sensor was improved. Dan Siefert called out the fingerprint reader in our reviews of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6… Source link

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Google explains why the Pixel 6’s fingerprint scanner may be sluggish

There’s a lot to rave about with the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, but their fingerprint scanners are not among those things. Since the Pixel 6 release in October, users have been complaining about its sluggish, unreliable fingerprint scanner that makes the phone a hassle to unlock. Google has finally responded to those complaints, and while it provided an explanation, it didn’t really offer any solid solution (via Engadget). We’re sorry for the hassle. The Pixel 6 fingerprint sensor… Source link

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Google’s Area 120 incubator releases a powerful AI document scanner for Android

Google’s Area 120, an internal incubator program for experimental projects, is releasing a new app today called Stack that borrows the technology underlying the search giant’s powerful DocAI enterprise tool for document analysis. The end result is a consumer document scanner app for Android that Google says vastly improves over your average mobile scanner by auto-categorizing documents into the titular stacks and enabling full text search through the contents of the documents and not… Source link

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