Google has announced it’s shutting down Google Hire. The job application service will be gone by Sep. 1, 2020, Google said this week. The tech giant will be focusing its resources on “other products in the Google Cloud portfolio.” Google Hire was designed to help smaller companies find and recruit job candidates. It integrates with …
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Finding a restaurant can be tough if you don’t eat meat, gluten or are on a low-carb diet. Yelp, the local search and review site, wants to make that process easier by personalizing search results for its US users. The company said Tuesday it’s rolling out a section for preferences that includes dietary restrictions to more users. You’ll have seven …
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The US has reportedly reached a deal with France over a new French law that would see American tech giants pay more in taxes. French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters Monday that US tech companies paying the tax would be able to deduct it, according to Reuters. On July 11, France’s Senate passed the bill creating a 3% tax on …
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GlobalFoundries, a US-based semiconductor foundry, is suing chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company over patent infringement. It claims that TSMC has violated 16 of its patents and is looking to block devices that have the offending technology from entering the US and Germany. While not widely known to US consumers, TSMC-made chips can be found in a host of consumer …
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Chromebooks — laptops that run on Google’s Chrome OS — are a growing part of the global PC market. The devices have consumed a large part of the education market in the past few years and have steadily pushed into the business world. Dell announced Monday the world’s first Chromebook Enterprise two-in-one and laptop to help solidify Chrome OS’ business presence. …
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In May, the Trump administration said it was pushing back a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. But with a new Google app, you can see Tubman on the bill now. The app, called Notable Women, was developed by Google and former US Treasurer Rosie Rios. It uses augmented reality to let people see what it would …
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During weekend’s G7 summit, French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly said the US didn’t sign on to a charter against online hate speech. Why? Macron said “legal reasons,” according to a report from Reuters on Monday. “We formalized an agreement for the first time with several Anglo-Saxon and European platforms and with support from nearly all (G7) countries,” Macron told reporters, …
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Samsung’s Galaxy cameras have a history of excellence, but have struggled to keep up with low-light night mode shots compared to rival devices, like the best-in-class Huawei P30 Pro and Google Pixel 3. Baking in a dedicated night mode into the Note 10 and Note 10 Plus changes that — it’s the difference between night and day. The dedicated night …
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Sitting in my apartment in New York’s Upper West Side, I’m browsing the web, checking emails and watching YouTube and Netflix the same as I normally do. Things are loading quickly, even with multiple devices hooked up. But this isn’t my normal Spectrum cable connection. All of that data is riding over a Wi-Fi network powered by a hotspot running …
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Huawei said the impact of its blacklisting by the US Commerce Department would be less than it previously estimated, Reuters reported Friday. Eric Xu, deputy chairman of the controversial Chinese phone maker, told reporters the company expects a sales reduction of $10 billion for its phone division. In June, CEO Ren Zhengfei predicted that it’d lose $30 billion. “It seems …
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