Gemini chat integration and code completion are now bundled in the new Android Studio JellyFish, without licensing needs while in preview. You have to explicitly log in and enable the feature.
After settling a lawsuit, Google will destroy tracking information it collected on websites containing google tracking (analytics) or advertising info for users browsing in incognito mode.
It only collected information if
Data will be deleted on about 136 million users.
Separte from the lawsuit, Google is also phasing out usage of third party cookies in Chrome. Currently you can configure chrome to block third pary cookies, it just is not the default as it is in Firefox and Safari.
When looking up the best route using public transport, you get something like 4 the possibilities that are closest to the requested timing. But you could also open up the schedule explorer. This allowed you to scroll further in the future or past.
Could... indeed, because the feature has been dropped silently by Google. What a pity to loose such a useful feature. Alternative now is to move your desired timing, which you can easily do in increments of 15'.
After the controversy over the margins the play stores (Huawei, Epic Games...) Google is allowing alternate playstores on Android.
They will enforce over the exclusive use of Google Pay for all payments more strictly, however.
On Google playstore only government approved apps are allowed to mention corona.
This is a frightening act of censorship, even though Google claims the policy is there to protect the users from malicious apps.
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I tried uploading a .jpg (obtained from a scan with my Canon Pixma) to Google photos but this failed.
I tried drag & drop and uploading from my computer, both did not work.
The photo is not even shown as a possible upload when browsing on my computer, because the .jpg type is not among the supported file types. .jpeg is present however, so I renamed my scan to .jpeg and lo!, the photo uploads without a problem.
Seems I'm not the only one having this problem, judging from the upvotes on this closed thread on support.google.com > photos.
My major gripe with google drive was that you could not search withing a folder. As Google drive contains nearly all my stuff, the noise was so high that search was all but useless. Hard to understand that a company who's core business is search could not provide this. So I needed to use windows limited search on my locally synced files.
Then today, I noticed the in folder search feature had sneaked in.
Yahoo! Kudo's to Google!
Google is replacing Google Drive with Google Drive File Stream (GDFS).
With GDFS you can (finally) cherry pick the folders that are synchronized to your local Drive (default: none).
GDFS mounts all network shares by default to drive G (what did you expect?).
Under G you will find a folder for your personal Drive and another folder for team drives you are member of (new with GDFS).
If the G drive is taken, GDFS takes the H drive and so on...
But...
Every once in a while GDFS mistakenly thinks the G drive is occupied and switches to H, next time it is back on G again... Very annoying if you have an absolute path reference to something on your drive (shortcuts, scripts...). The solution is a classic Windows trick: stop and restart:
Blogger supports including images from Picassa, but when you include an image as a share link from Google drive, this seems to work initially, but the converted link does not work anymore after a while. So, you end up, saving your images twice in google storage.
Here's a post on converting a Google Drive link for usage with Blogger.
I got a notification of a modification of the LinkedIn Terms of Service today.
You do not find any reference to censorship in the mail, but if you follow the links in the mail you can see that they have launched a beta version in Chinese. Linked in was previously only available in English in China.
If you follow the link to the user agreement you now find:
LinkedIn may be required by local laws to remove certain information or
content and so that information or content may not be available on our
Service in those countries.
LinkedIn clearly does not want to risk complete blocking, like Twitter today in Turkey, or Google earlier in China.
Microsoft identified a former employee as the source of some press leaks of software under development (among others, Windows 8).
Micorsoft did so by searching the hotmail and Skydrive data of the journalist and the employee.
This is remarkable, as Microsoft launched the Scroogled campaign site against Google guaranteeing: Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your email to sell ads.
According to the terms of service of its Communication Services Microsoft has every right to go through your data:
Microsoft reserves the right to review materials posted to the
Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole
discretion.
So, the terms of service do not include the campaign assurance that Microsoft will not go through your data for specific goals like selling ads, they may do so whenever they feel like it.
They do include motives that may trigger the of your data in the terms of service:
Microsoft may access, disclose, or preserve
information associated with your use of the services ... [to] protect
the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers.
So anything that has to do with licensing of software, music etc. may cause your data to be searched and any legal claim by a Microsoft customer (that's the entire business world) may lead to data disclosure.
Indeed, in the campaign, Microsoft does not claim that they will not go through your email. They just don't go through it with the purpose of selling adds.
The doodle is accompanied by an extract of the Olympic Charter that links sports and human rights. The rainbow colours are another reference to Gay rights.
Without formulating an explicit company message, this must be the most political doodle ever.
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