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The Federal Trade Commission has set a price on children’s privacy online and the going rate is $170 million. That’s how much Google will have to pay under the terms of a settlement agreement to end investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New …

If you opened up Google Calendar sometime in the last few weeks only to find your schedule filled with things like “WIN A FREE iPHONE!” or “CHEAP RAYBANS HERE”, you’re by no means the only one. Spammers have found a way to trick Google Calendar into adding t…

Google has just released the final version of its new operating system for Android phones. Though its been available as a beta release under the name Android Q, the new version is named well, it has nothing to do with the letter Q. Its just Android 10, which …

On its official support forum, the company writes it's "aware of the spam occurring in Calendar," and notes that it is "working diligently" to resolve the issue. At the moment, however, there's no estimated timeline for when people can expect a fix. In the m…

The company uses a massive contractor workforce Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A group of Google contractors in Pittsburgh is moving to unionize, according to a statement released on August 29th. 66 percent have signed union cards About 90 em…

Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a victim’s iPhone by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software flaws. Google’s Project Zero said in a deep-dive blog post p…

Anyone wondering if Alphabet might reprimand its chief legal officer, David Drummond, for a long-ago extramarital, inter-office affair that continues to be a distraction to the company, the answer seems to be . . . not right now. Though a former subordinate o…

If the past few years have taught us all something its that fake news has found its home on social media. While fake posts are often news stories, they can also be images that people share, sometimes without the knowledge that what theyre sharing isnt factu…

Huawei's next flagship Android smartphone, the Mate 30, will ship with a major disadvantage when it launches on Sept. 18. Due to the ongoing ban on U.S. companies working with Huawei, the company's upcoming Mate 30 will not ship with Google Play, which means…

Add another one to the Google Cemetery. Google has disclosed that it will shut down Google Hire, the job application tracking system it launched just two years ago. Google built Hire in an effort to simplify the hiring process, with a workflow that integrat…