If you had troubles with YouTube or Gmail on Sunday, those issues should now be fixed. Google Cloud had been experiencing widespread problems Sunday, which wreaked havoc on YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord and a host of other popular apps and services across the eastern United States. YouTube wasn’t completely down for CNET’s John Falcone in Brooklyn Sunday, but …
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Hold down the home button on your Apple iPhone, and you can ask a question of Siri — Apple’s version of what we generically call a “virtual assistant.” Talk to Siri, and you can search the internet, make a call, set a reminder and even command certain smart home devices to turn on lights, lock doors and trigger scenes. Siri runs …
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Summer vacations are just beginning, but now is a good time to get a jump on back-to-school laptop shopping. Chromebooks are a great pick for students because of their ease of use and low prices. If you will need to buy a Chromebook for the next school year, you can save some money by picking one up now. Best Buy …
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It’s an all-English final match for the championship of the UEFA Champions League. The annual football tournament started with 79 top-division clubs from all over Europe, and now it’s down to two. Liverpool and Tottenham meet in the final on June 1, a match expected to rival the Super Bowl as the most-watched television broadcast in the world. Both teams …
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To combat deceptive installation tactics involving its Chrome browser, Google has some new rules to protect users and hold developers accountable. In a post on the Chrome developers blog Thursday, Google said sometimes it sees developers using ads and landing pages that mislead users into installing pages they may not want or need. Going forward, Google will remove any Chrome extension that: Has no clear …
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We’ve all been there — you go to a new restaurant and are struck with indecision. What if the meal you order turns out to be the worst thing on the menu? Google Maps has a new feature that helps you decide what to eat. It shows you popular dishes based on what other people like. If you’ve ever swiped …
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Two tech standards groups that severed ties with Huawei apparently changed their minds pretty quickly. The Wi-Fi Alliance and SD Association last week apparently restricted and removed the embattled Chinese phone maker respectively, but Huawei reappeared on both organizations’ list of members this week. The Wi-Fi Alliance promotes and certifies Wi-Fi technology, and the SD Association sets the industry standards …
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Wikipedia says The North Face violated its terms by swapping photos on the site with its own in order to appear at the top of Google searches. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, said Wednesday that The North Face and ad agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made “unethically manipulated” Wikipedia after removing photos on the platform and replacing them with …
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When it comes to concerns over new ad-blocking limits planned for Chrome, Google has budged but so far hasn’t moved very far. The company is responding to criticism of proposed changes to its Chrome web browser that may cripple ad-blocking tools. Though Google revealed it’s lifting some limits and plans an exemption for enterprise users, it doesn’t look like the search …
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Pop the champagne and polish the medals, for the competition to be first to 5G has declared its victors. UK carrier EE turned on the first 5G network in its home country on Thursday, beating its rivals to the punch. EE joins Verizon and Swisscom as “winners” of the race to being the first in a given country to offer …
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