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A more intuitive foldable and tablet experience hits Google’s Workspace apps

What you need to know Google highlighted an update for Android foldables and tablets that refines the experience of Gmail and Chat. Gmail now provides a formatting bar for different fonts and lists while also implementing Smart Compose. Google has been spotted upgrading its multitasking experience in Android 15 for its upcoming Fold, which is …

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What Google’s decision to keep cookies means for the internet – CNBC

What Google’s decision to keep cookies means for the internet  CNBC Google Is Keeping Cookies in Chrome After All  The Wall Street Journal Google to keep cookies in Chrome after advertiser pushback  Yahoo Finance Source link What Google’s decision to keep cookies means for the internet – CNBC #Googles #decision #cookies #means #internet #CNBC Source link Google News …

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Forget security – Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit • The Register

Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions. The term CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” and, as Google explains, it refers to a challenge-response …

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Google’s $23 Billion Deal With Wiz Is Off. Here’s What Happens Next.

Google’s big cybersecurity deal looks to be off the table with a report that talks have broken down with start-up Wiz. It’s a development that puts more pressure on the search giant to show growth in its cloud-computing division.  Alphabet unit Google’s talks to acquire Wiz for a planned $23 billion have fallen apart, The …

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Google’s $23 billion takeover talks with Wiz fizzle out

(Alamy/PA) What was set to be Google’s biggest-ever acquisition appears to have fizzled out after the tech giant’s $23 billion (£18 billion) takeover talks with Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz were called off. Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport said the company took the decision to end discussions in order to return to its original plans for an …

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Wiz turns down Google’s $23B acquisition deal – report (NASDAQ:GOOG)

Alena Kravchenko/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Cybersecurity startup Wiz walked away from a $23B acquisition deal with Google’s parent Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), according to a CNBC report that cites an internal company memo. The $12B cloud security startup will instead pursue a public offering as previously planned. “Saying no to such humbling offers is tough,” …

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Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles • The Register

Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities. In a Monday post, Anthony Chavez, VP of Google’s Privacy Sandbox, said that the search and ads giant has come to understand that its …

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Google’s next streaming player looks nothing like the Chromecast

Google is seemingly about to move on from the HDMI dongle design of all its past streaming devices in favor of a more conventional set-top box. 9to5Google has published images of the upcoming product, which is apparently called the “Google TV Streamer.” So not only is the look of past Chromecasts going away, but so …

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Google’s Gmail launched on April Fool’s Day 20 years ago

Twenty years on, Google’s Gmail now has an estimated 1.8 billion accounts. ADVERTISEMENT Google launched its email service Gmail 20 years ago today in a press release that some thought was a joke. Gmail was described then as “a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, …

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Google’s algorithms counter negative SEO attempts

Google’s Gary Illyes shares insight on why negative SEO attempts often fail. Such attempts involve spamming competitors with poor quality links in hopes of having them miscategorized by Google’s algorithms, which would lead to their removal from Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Illyes clarifies that Google’s algorithms are advanced enough to recognize and counter these …

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