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Google to revises app rules after EU charges over market abuse
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Google lays off hundreds from sales team

Google on Tuesday announced that the company is letting go of hundreds of staff in its advertising sales team. The layoff of the advertising team is the latest job cut in the tech giant. Google said last week that it will be laying off a number of staff members from its augmented reality team, hardware […]

Australia fines Google $36m over anticompetitive search engine deals
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Google, Bing face criticism over x-rated results

Search engines DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Google are facing criticism for including nonconsensual artificial intelligence deepfake pornography at the top of some search results. The process of making explicit deepfake images involves taking original sexual content and replacing the actor’s or actress’s face with a likely actual person, such as a celebrity. Tests utilizing a combination […]

Google introduces updates to play store
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Google to allow more real-money games on Play Store

Google said on Friday that it will enable additional kinds of games in the category that go by local rules in order to encourage more real-money games on the Play Store this year. According to the search giant, the extended support for the real-money gambling program will launch in June in Mexico, Brazil, and India, […]

Google unveils AI-powered educational tools
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Google removes underused features from AI Assistant

In order to concentrate on “quality and reliability,” Google is eliminating 17 “underutilized” features from Google Assistant, the company said on Thursday. A message that a feature will no longer be accessible after a specific date will be sent to users who request one of the functionalities that are being deleted starting on January 26. […]

Google unveils next Gen tools for retailers
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Google unveils next Gen tools for retailers

Google Cloud on Thursday announced new generation AI tools with the goal of assisting businesses in streamlining their back-office processes and personalizing their online shopping experiences. With Google Cloud’s Conversational Commerce Solution, businesses can incorporate agents driven by artificial intelligence into their mobile applications and websites. The agents, according to Google, are powered by “sophisticated” […]

Google signs $3bn US hydropower deal amid AI energy race
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Google lays off engineering workers

Google on Wednesday announced the layoff of hundreds of workers from a variety of departments, including services and engineering. The divisions that are impacted include the Devices and Services PA team, which oversees Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware, and the voice-activated Google Assistant, which is a part of the knowledge and information product team restructure. […]

Google releases AI multisearch feature
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Google shares hack to prevent breach

In response to news of a password change-resistant attack being used by information-stealing hackers, Google has advised users of Gmail to switch the app off and on again. CloudSEK researcher Pavan Karthick M described how Google accounts may be compromised by taking advantage of an undocumented authentication endpoint that is used for cross-services synchronization in […]

Google signs $3bn US hydropower deal amid AI energy race
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Google to pay $5 billion for monitoring users

Google, a division of Alphabet, has consented to resolve a lawsuit alleging that it surreptitiously monitored the internet activity of millions of users who believed they were browsing in private. A trial in the proposed class action was slated for February 5, 2024, but U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, postponed it […]

Google implements new enhanced security features for users
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Google implements new enhanced security features for users

In a significant stride toward bolstering browser security, Google has unveiled new features aimed at fortifying user protection within Chrome. One key enhancement is the introduction of automatic background password scans, actively detecting compromised passwords while users browse. Any identified security issues will trigger immediate alerts conveniently accessible via the browser’s three-dot menu in the […]

Google to restructure ads division
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Google to restructure ads division

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, intends to restructure a sizable portion of its 30,000-person ad sales division. According to The Information, Sean Downey, who is in charge of managing Google’s ad sales to large clients in the Americas, announced at a department-wide meeting last week that the company intends to reorganize its ad sales teams. He […]

Google agrees to pay $700M antitrust settlement
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Google agrees to pay $700M antitrust settlement

Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google has agreed to pay $700 million and foster increased competition within its Play app store as part of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers. The details of this agreement were disclosed on Monday in a federal court situated in San Francisco. Pending a judge’s final approval, the settlement outlines Google’s […]