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2022-05-15 17:04:01 Google allowed Europeans to refuse cookies in one click

According to a new Google policy, users in Europe may refuse cookies in one click.

Recall that cookies are used not only to show targeted ads to the user, but also to collect all sorts of personal data, allowing for their various (and not always legitimate) processing.

To remind, in January the French National Commission on Informatics and Civil Rights (CNIL) fined Google 150 million euros and Facebook 60 million euros for the fact that the algorithms for refusing to use cookies on the companies' resources "confused" users. Open / Comment

2022-05-14 20:48:20 Tip for 2022: Collect free NFTs. When NFT projects first start up, they give away free, or 99% off, NFTs to attract new users.

Signing up on the site, inviting friends, walking around - you can get NFTs worth thousands of dollars for all that.

The picture above was given away for registering on the site 4 years ago. Now it's worth from $2,000,000.

So, if you want one too — get the Ton Guys NFT. Right now they're giving away 250 NFTs worth $50,000. All you have to do is click the "participate" button.

P.S. Verified sources state this collection will be worth millions of dollars. So hurry up: Ton Guys. Open / Comment

2022-05-14 17:00:07 DuckDuckGo and Brave have announced their own anti-tracking systems from Google.

The two companies, which are positioned as aimed at user privacy, have decided to fight Google's ubiquitous tracking. The search giant tracks a user's actions, builds their advertising profile and uses it for targeting.

DuckDuckGo and Brave said they are going to "clean up" the Internet on their own. Open / Comment

2022-05-13 17:00:07 Google opened Africa's first product development center

Google has opened a center for the development of its products in the Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

Google vice president Susanne Frei said that over the next two years Google would hire more than 100 technical specialists, including software engineers, researchers and designers, to solve complex technical problems.

Improving smartphone performance for Africans and creating a more reliable Internet infrastructure will be the main task of the African project. Open / Comment

2022-05-12 22:23:00 Who lives and reigns in our world?

Entrepreneurs, Investors, Businessmen.

Forbes shares about their life principles, habits and values.

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Wish to figure out what’s going on in the heads and wallets of the "powerful of this world"? Read @forbes_usa Open / Comment

2022-05-12 17:00:07 Google's next smartphone deprives the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro of an interesting feature. We're talking about Motion Mode

Pixel 6a will get a simpler camera. According to XDA-Developers, Google's next smartphone will not get the feature introduced in the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. Motion Mode camera mode uses machine learning and multiframe capture to create a blurry background with a sharp object.

Although the Pixel 6a is expected to use the same single-chip Tensor system as the Pixel 6 smartphones, it will get a 12.2MP main camera and a 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera.

The Google Pixel 6a is expected to be similar to the Google Pixel 6. It will also have a 6.2-inch OLED display, but the camera in will be simpler to justify the lower cost of the smartphone. Open / Comment

2022-05-11 17:00:07 Google Pixel Watch Ready for Announcement

Google has long been said to be preparing to enter the smartwatch market. Assumptions were made that the Pixel Watch would become the benchmark wearable gadget, which should become on a par with devices from Apple and Samsung.

The watch has been credited with premium hardware and powerful Wear OS software to offer a better user experience. But until now, all these predictions have remained talk.

Why?
There's been talk that Google has long believed that the Pixel Watch isn't perfect and isn't ready to fulfill the mission it was tasked with. But it looks like the company's opinion has changed and it's finally ready to show off a product it won't be ashamed of Open / Comment

2022-05-10 17:00:09 Google has released an urgent Chrome update

It fixes a vulnerability that was actively exploited by attackers.

The update, 100.0.4896.127 for Windows, macOS and Linux, fixes a serious zero-day vulnerability CVE-2022-1364, which has been actively exploited by attackers.

CVE-2022-1364 is a vulnerability in the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine that cybercriminals can exploit to execute arbitrary code. Open / Comment

2022-05-09 17:04:00 Google showed special gadgets for alerts

Google has shared its new developments. An experimental project shows how the user can be "discreetly" and unobtrusively provided with notifications - with the help of a light knock, a breeze and even moving shadows.

According to the idea, such gadgets are designed to help stay informed without beeping or turning on the smartphone screen. Roughly the same way a person interacts with the normal environment. Open / Comment

2022-05-08 17:00:06 Google showed special gadgets for alerts

Google has shared its new developments. An experimental project shows how the user can be "discreetly" and unobtrusively provided with notifications - with the help of a light knock, a breeze and even moving shadows.

According to the idea, such gadgets are designed to help stay informed without beeping or turning on the smartphone screen. Roughly the same way a person interacts with the normal environment. Open / Comment