With an increasing number of households buying into virtual assistants like Google Home and Amazon Alexa, it’s important to keep in mind that these devices are designed to listen. This includes recording and learning the tone of your voice and improving voice recognition and features for the virtual assistant. It’s supposed to be a feature...Read More
Today, the European Commission handed down a $5 billion fine to Google for anti-competitive behavior, the single biggest antitrust ruling the company has ever faced. The commission’s central complaint is that by requiring Chrome and Google search as default services on any device using the Google Play Store, Android is engaging in anti-competitive behavior. As...Read More
<!– –> VISIT CNBC.COM Home Entrepreneurs Leadership Careers Money Specials PRIMETIME Money Money 4 Hours AgoCNBC.com Teamwork is an inescapable and necessary part of most jobs. The Harvard Business Review has found that “the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more” over the last two decades....Read More
Google is having a hardware sale.Credit: Google Amazon typically offers Prime Day discounts on their Fire tablets, Kindle E-readers and Echo digital assistants. This year is no exception with the Echo Show already discounted $100 through Prime Day which starts on July 16th and ends on the 17th. Google isn’t sitting idly by while Amazon...Read More
Google is making it easier for people with disabilities to communicate via Morse code using their iPhones. The search giant said Thursday that its Gboard app for Apple (aapl) iOS devices like the iPhone now includes a Morse code accessibility feature. Previously, the Morse code Gboard feature was only available to Android users. Google (goog)...Read More
BRUSSELS—The European Union’s antitrust watchdog is expected to find Alphabet Inc.’s Google illegally abused the dominance of its Android operating system for mobile phones, issuing a multibillion-euro fine and ordering changes to the company’s Android-related business practices, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, is expected to find that...Read More
What’s new for Google’s apps and devices. Work last week may have been interrupted by the 4th of July holiday, but that didn’t keep Google from rolling out something new. Here are some of the week’s new apps and features. The Google Drive app can access password-protected Office files The Android Google Drive app can...Read More
With Duplex, the Google Assistant will call restaurants and salons to make reservations on your behalf. James Martin/CNET Google Duplex is a technology that’s designed to work for people, not take their jobs — at least, according to Google. When Google unveiled Duplex at its I/O conference in May, it caused quite a stir. The...Read More
In early May Google banned bail-bond companies from advertising on its platforms. Such companies profit from “communities of color and low income neighborhoods when they are at their most vulnerable,” it explained in a blog post. They use “opaque financing offers that can keep people in debt for months or years.” That Google can ban ads from an...Read More
Employees working for hundreds of software developers are reading the private messages of Gmail users, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. A year ago, Google promised to stop scanning the inboxes of Gmail users, but the company has not done much to protect Gmail inboxes obtained by outside software developers, according to the newspaper....Read More
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