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Google this week issued a recommendation for all Washington State employees to work remotely, citing growing fears around the spread of COVID-19. A spokesperson confirmed the recommendation in an email with TechCrunch. The move comes after a consultation with local health officials. The software giant has not closed the offices…

Google Cloud today announced a new solution for its telecom customers: Anthos for Telecom. You can think of this as a specialized edition of Google’s container-based Anthos multi-cloud platform for both modernizing existing applications and building new ones on top of Kubernetes. The announcement, which was originally slated for MWC,…

Screenshot: GoogleBack at CES, Google teased a new feature that allows the Google Assistant to read web pages aloud in more than 42 languages with just a simple voice command. Now Google’s Read It feature is finally ready to roll out.In addition to being a big boon for accessibility or…

Ezgi Cetinkaya Marketing Communications Specialist, AdSense, Google Published Mar 4, 2020 Creating content your audience loves takes time, but making it profitable shouldn’t. That’s where Google AdSense comes in. With AdSense, trusted advertisers show their ads on your site, generating revenue for you to keep creating great content and take your…

Yet another major firmware bug has been found that leaves billions of phones, routers, and other wireless devices from Apple, Google, Amazon open to spying. The bug, known as “Kr00k,” was discovered by the ESETt data security firm and disclosed in a recent paper. Kr00k affects the way certain wifi…

By Stan Schroeder2020-02-27 10:48:04 UTC Google Earth is one of the nicest experiences you can have in a web browser, and yet it only worked in Google Chrome — until now.  On Wednesday, Google announced that Earth now works in Firefox, Edge, and Opera browsers. The change comes after a…

Photo: David MurphyEven though my inbox is unwieldy, I try my best to keep it as clean and as organized as I can. That includes taking some time to ditch old emails with gigantic attachments, and then clearing out my trash to see just how much space I saved.Unfortunately, some…

The new icons indicate whether the image you're clicking leads to a page with products for sale, to a page with recipes or to video content. They appear small and unobtrusive at first glance, but mousing over them shows the tags in full, even the video's length. While the icons'…

There’s not one, but three big ol’ security bugs in the latest versions of Chrome, one of which is being actively exploited by hackers. You can read the technical details of the bug in Google blog post, but it basically affects Chrome’s ability to properly check and run JavaScript, leaving…

A “scheduled storage server software update that didn’t go as intended” caused a 17-hour outage for Nest cameras, according to parent company Google. The outage affected the Nest Cam, its indoor and outdoor Nest Cam IQ cameras, Nest Hello Doorbell and the Nest Hub Max display, 9to5Google reports. During the…