The test aims to provide regulators and publishers with further data on how Google is used to access news content. ADVERTISEMENT Google has begun a “small, time-limited test” in eight countries to determine the impact of removing… Article Source https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/11/14/google-removes-eu-based-news-content-from-search-feeds-as-part-of-time-limited-test
Amazon has taken down a video featuring one of its senior vice-presidents delivering a speech while wearing a necklace in the shape of the map of Israel with the Palestinian flag over it. Dr Ruba Borno, a senior vice-president for Amazon Web… Article Source https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/amazon-removes-senior-vice-presidents-video-over-controversial-necklace/
Google has removed live price charts for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from its search results. Users have noticed that queries like “Bitcoin price” or “Ethereum price” no longer display these charts, a feature that has been… Article Source https://www.cryptotimes.io/2024/10/14/google-removes-bitcoin-and-crypto-price-charts-from-search/
Key Takeaways Google has quietly removed the Lens shortcut from Circle to Search following a recent update. Circle to Search previously made it easy to activate Lens with minimal taps, but users will now have to resort to other methods. … Article Source https://www.androidpolice.com/google-circle-to-search-missing-lens-shortcut/
Cisco has decided to stop providing OpenDNS services following an order from Canal Plus. Cisco’s decision to pull OpenDNS comes after Canal Plus requested the termination of the service. Cisco’s OpenDNS services are used to provide secure and reliable internet access to users, but it seems that the order from Canal Plus has prompted Cisco … Read more
This week, Google completed the rollout of the June 2024 Spam Update over a span of 7 days. As part of this update, Google has made some significant changes to its search interface, including abandoning the continuous scrolling feature for search results. Instead, Google is now testing the placement of link cards at the top … Read more
Google recently removed numerous images of Austrian landmarks that were edited by environmental activists to illustrate the potential impacts of climate change. These AI-altered photos, which showed dry lakes, snowless Alpine peaks, and a transformed Danube River as they might appear in 2070,were uploaded by the Austrian group Letzte Generation to Google Maps. However, Google … Read more
Intel has stopped supporting its Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators in the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler, signaling the end of MIC architecture support in the Aurora supercomputer. This decision comes after the GCC compiler also ended support for Intel’s Xeon Phi accelerators, likely due to Intel discontinuing hardware support. The deprecation of Xeon … Read more
Ernie Smith, a writer, has dubbed &udm=14 as the “Konami code of desenshitification” when used on Google. This code is believed to help users better filter out unwanted content from their search results. The image provided showcases this code in action. Article Source https://boingboing.net/2024/05/23/what-the-heck-is-udm14-a-new-search-engine-strips-ai-junk-from-google-results.html
Google Pay has introduced three new features aimed at improving security, convenience, and access to spending tools for its users. These features were designed based on feedback from users and focus on streamlining the checkout process, providing biometric options for authentication, and expanding the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) option to more merchants and Android … Read more