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Use your iPhone’s or Android phone’s camera with Google Lens. Angela Lang/CNET Google has unveiled several new updates for its Lens tool… Source link

Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from home jobs. The increase in searches is directly related COVID-19’s impact on businesses and employment. The purpose of alerting site owners is to make them aware of an opportunity to use remote job structured data markup. Lily Ray shared a screenshot of the email Google is sending out, which reads: “Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google has seen increased job… Source link

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai over Google’s artificial intelligence work in China. Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill during a highly-publicized hearing on Wednesday for the company’s decision to pull out of bids for lucrative government contracts following employee backlash – while still carrying on some operations in China. When questioned about decisions to end a bid for the lucrative $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google’s work from home plans could have a big impact on office markets in major U.S. cities (Getty, Pixabay) In December 2018, Google CFO Ruth Porat announced plans for the search giant’s new 1.7 million-square-foot campus in Manhattan’s Hudson Square, a move that would allow the company to “more than double the number of Googlers in New York over the next 10 years.” It was the latest in a series of billion-dollar moves that had made Google one of… Source link

(Gray News) – Google is telling its employees they can work from home until about this time next year. CNN Business obtained an employee memo that outlines the plan. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved… Source link

Google employees will work from home at least until next July due to the coronavirus pandemic, a decision that makes the search engine company the first major U.S. corporation to commit to the year-long stay-at-home plan. According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, Google’s plan affects nearly all of the company’s 200,000 full-time and contract employees across Google parent Alphabet Inc. WaPo describes Google’s decision as among the “cautious camp of companies”… Source link

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, Northern District of California U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, but she slashed attorney fees by more than $7 million after concluding the deal was “unexceptional” and the legal work “not particularly novel.” Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: … Source link

Google is revamping its G Suite kit in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company, ahead to next week’s Google Cloud conference, has announced that the major update will transform its G Suite productivity tools into a unified app for all of Google’s platforms, including Gmail, Chat, Rooms and Meet. To curb the problem of constant switching between communication platforms a user might face to keep up with the work from home corporate industry, Google has integrated all its subsidiary… Source link

San Francisco (AFP) – Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, The New York Times reported Friday. The attack, which Twitter and federal police are investigating, started with a playful message between hackers on the platform Discord, a chat service popular with gamers, according to the Times. The paper said it had interviewed four people who participated in the hacking, who shared logs and… Source link

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the coronavirus pandemic has reaffirmed what the technology giant has believed since its early days: Employees don’t have to be at their desks to get work done, and work is not defined by a physical place. “It can happen anywhere,” Pichai said, noting that, in a recent survey of U.S. chief financial officers, most said the coronavirus will have a lasting impact on improving their work flexibility. “As we adapt to new models of working,… Source link