[ad_1] On the surface, Threads is essentially an extension of Instagram’s Close Friends feature for Stories, which was introduced in 2018. Close Friends, in case you’re not familiar with it, lets you share pictures, videos and message only with groups of people you’ve carefully selected. In fact, if you haven’t created a Close Friends list […]
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‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ will be a Google Stadia launch title
[ad_1] It’s a significant step for Rockstar — it’s a brand new PC version of a marquee title available through a streaming service. It’s also likely the closest you’ll get to having a mobile version of Rockstar’s modern games, at least for a while. RDR2 simply demands too much processing power and storage from current […]
Chrome will block HTTP content from loading on secure sites
[ad_1] According to Google, Chrome users now spend over 90 percent of their browsing time on HTTPS on all major platforms. But it’s common for those secure pages to load insecure HTTP subresources. Many of those subresources are blocked by default, but some sneak in as images, audio and video, or “mixed content.” That mixed […]
Google found a serious Android flaw affecting Pixel, Samsung and Huawei phones
[ad_1] The exploit was discovered by Google’s Project Zero team, and its Threat Analysis Group believes it was used in real-world attacks by Israel’s NSO Group. That company has been implicated in the past in attacks on human rights and political activists. Google said that the zero-day is not as dangerous as others in the […]
Google and Ivanka Trump unveil a tech job training program
[ad_1] Separately, Google added that it was bringing its IT Support Certificate program to 100 community colleges, and making it easier for colleges to grant credits to certificate owners. The move, which comes as part of the Grow with Google strategy, is meant to help people either land entry IT support jobs or advance their […]
Google’s Pixel 4 will feature something called a ‘Pixel Neural Core’
[ad_1] According to the official spec sheet — obtained by 9to5Google — we’re looking at a Snapdragon 855 processor, 6GB of RAM and up to a 90Hz display. Marked differences between the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are inevitably the screen size (5.7″ vs 6.3″) and battery (2800 mAh vs 3700 mAh). Both offer […]
Contractors say they were told to lie while collecting Pixel 4 face scans
[ad_1] This summer, we learned that Google had embarked on a wide scale project to collect facial recognition data, which the company said was necessary to build “fairness” into face unlocking for its Pixel 4, which will be officially unveiled on October 15th. A new report from the New York Daily News has more details […]
Americans believe social networks make the news worse
[ad_1] About 88 percent of those in the study said that social networks favored news outlets with “attention-grabbing articles” — that is, sensationalist fare. Roughly 84 percent said companies liked sites that had many social followers, while 79 percent thought the companies favored news with a specific political stance. There were also gripes about bias, […]
Leaked Google videos show the Pixel 4’s ‘Motion Sense’ gestures in action
[ad_1] In the first set of videos, we see how the Pixel 4’s touchless gestures will work. To silence calls and alarms, you simply wave your hand sideways above the phone. Skipping songs is done the same way. The one quirk to the system is that you can silence or snooze an alarm by changing […]
UK court rules Google must face lawsuit over Safari privacy
[ad_1] Google told the Financial Times that it intended to appeal the reversal to the country’s Supreme Court. It said the incident “took place nearly a decade ago” and that it had “addressed [it] at the time.” The lawsuit “has no merit,” the company added. The suit could prove costly to Google if successful. The […]