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
Google first showed off its phone-calling bot, Google Duplex, in May, demonstrating how the software can make a call that sounded convincingly like a real person. Now, Google has announced a rollout for Duplex, starting this summer. In this Tuesday, June 26, 2018, photo Nick Fox, VP of Assistant and Search for Google, talks about...Read More
Google is updating its VR art tool Tilt Brush today, adding a beginner mode for novices, a feature that locks objects in place so you can edit around them, and others. Google acquired the VR studio that made Tilt Brush in 2015 and has since released new features like a multiplayer mode and a Unity...Read More
What’s new for Google’s apps and devices. Keeping up with Google can wear you out because the company always has something new to offer. Not everything works, but Google never stops trying. Here are six new features that are rolling out now for Google’s apps and devices. Personal overview page added to the Assistant app...Read More
Google Home and Chromecast users are susceptible to a location privacy leak. The bug was discovered in May, but Google declined to comment until recently, saying it would release an update to fix the problem in mid-July. Craig Young, a researcher with security firm Tripwire, found the bug that leaks extremely accurate location data about...Read More
When it comes to its users—roughly 1.17 billion of them—there is very little Google doesn’t know. The company has worked hard to increase our dependency on its products by gathering information about what we want to see, and harnessing that data to streamline our experiences. Tools like predictive search (Google suggesting search queries based on...Read More
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Developer conference season is behind us, leaving in its wake a huge pile of software updates to come, promises of fancy features, and a slightly clearer direction for where the computer platforms we use every day are going. The last of them is always Apple’s WWDC, and this year, I was struck by a thought...Read More
On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook and Google have been hit with a raft of lawsuits accusing the companies of coercing users into sharing personal data. The lawsuits, which seek to fine Facebook 3.9 billion and Google 3.7 billion euro (roughly $8.8 billion in dollars), were filed by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems,...Read More
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