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Google has decided to give people greater control with new features in their ad settings. A new feature that is being rolled out allows people to mute reminder ads. This solves the annoying problem of being shown an ad from a website that you browsed and/or already made a purchase from. You visit Snow Boot Co.'s website, add a pair
Google is ending its First Click Free policy in favor of a Flexible Sampling model. This could change the amount of news websites that you can read without paying for a subscription to one or more of them. Part of the point of this new change is to enable news websites to provide small samples of their articles for free
There's nothing more confusing than trying to unpack a new(ish?) Google feature about so-called "news feeds," as over the years Google has provided products with names like: Google News, Google Now, Google Plus, and Google Reader. But this next tweak to Google's system doesn't have much (if anything) to do with those services. In an upcoming change to Google's iOS
Google has created curriculum that can be used by educators and parents to teach their kids how to make smart decisions online. It is called “Be Internet Awesome”, and it aims to teach children the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence. “Be Internet Awesome” focuses on five fundamentals in “The Internet Code of
My Pixel C upgraded to Nougat 7.1.2 at the weekend and after the obligatory reboot, I was presented with Google's best efforts to enforce round icons across their own suite of apps. It's embarrassingly bad. It's one thing to create circular icons with roundness in mind, but to make round icons by slapping a white disc into the background is
Google announced some changes they are making to Hangouts, Gmail, and Google+. They talked about these upcoming changes at Google Cloud Next. One of the changes involves fully transitioning Google Talk to Hangouts. Google Talk was launched in 2005 as a simple chat experience between Gmail users. In 2013, Google replaced Google Talk with Hangouts – and continued to give users
The era of the electronic virtual assistant is upon us. Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Google Assistant have become nearly ubiquitous in our everyday lives. It's reminiscent of scenes from Star Trek, where a character simply barks a command at a computer, and the computer goes to work fulfilling the request. In a bid to make its