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Numerous users have reported experiencing an odd glitch in the Google Calendar mobile app over the past few days. The app appears to be creating random, nonexistent all-day events based on the content of users’ Gmail messages. As 9to5Google (who reported the news earlier today) notes, various sorts of emails including delivery notifications, purchase receipts, and newsletters appear to be showing up as all-day calendar events. Some Verge staffers who use the Google calendar app are… Source link

Google is making a small change in the new year, releasing the stable version of Chrome a week early for some users. It looks like Google is going to start shaking things up in the new year. It announced through its developer blog that it would change the release schedule of Chrome, making a small adjustment to the release schedule of the stable version. Starting with the release of Chrome 110, Google will release the stable version a week earlier than it… 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

Apple’s (AAPL) App Store may soon be competing for space on iPhones in Europe thanks to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The law, which goes into effect Jan. 11, 2023, with enforcement beginning in early 2024, could force Apple to allow users to install third-party app stores on their devices, circumventing Apple’s own digital storefront. The problem, for Apple at least, is that if developers can take advantage of third-party app stores they’ll be able to bypass the 30% fees… Source link

Google search queries on desktop will now return results in a continuous scroll instead of being divided into several pages, the company announced today (via The Verge). The change is reminiscent of the way modern social media feeds work, although Google’s version isn’t quite the “infinite scroll” that social network users will be familiar with. Google says a search will now return six pages of results in a single scroll, before offering users a “See more” button to show additional… Source link

Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer in a podcast on the topic of why Google search is so bad explained that it wasn’t Google that was bad it was the Internet. Then she opined that one of the reasons for keeping users on Google is because the web isn’t always a good experience. Ex-Googler Marissa Mayer Marissa Mayer was employee #20 at Google. She played key roles in virtually all of Google’s major products, including Google search, local, images, and AdWords, to name a few. She left Google to… Source link

Google has confirmed the eighth zero-day exploit impacting the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. An emergency fix addressing this single issue is being rolled out now, but you can force-update your browser immediately. Other browser clients using the Chromium engine should also expect to see updates soon. Google confirms Chrome zero-day number 8 for 2022 It used to be a very rare event when a Google Chrome update addressed a single security issue, reserved for… Source link

Google Failed to Tell Users That Their Web and App Activity Tracked Location Data NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James, as part of a coalition of 40 attorneys general, today secured $391.5 million from Google for misleading millions of users about its location data tracking. A multistate investigation found that Google failed to notify users that location tracking services were automatically turned on for web and app activity. Millions of consumers with Google accounts who… Source link

An Android statue is displayed in front of a building on the Google campus on January 31, 2022 in Mountain View, California. Google parent company Alphabet will report fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday after the closing bell. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Google Play app store will allow Spotify and Bumble to bill U.S. users for subscriptions directly inside their Android apps, Google announced on Thursday. Typically, Google Play and Apple’s App Store for iPhones take between 15% and 30%… Source link

This week, TikTok users across the country who created videos on the app before September 30, 2021, began receiving payments between $27.84 and $167.04 following a $92 million class-action data privacy settlement with the social media platform. The largest checks went to short- and long-term residents of Illinois, where TikTok was sued for violating the state’s strict biometric data laws by collecting and implementing facial recognition data into its algorithms without user consent. Not… Source link