Google is reportedly delaying its employees’ return to the office until September 2021 and is testing the idea of a three-day in-office workweek with remote work taking up the other days. The New York Times reported on the staff email from CEO Sundar Pichai, who said the company is rolling out the pilot program once […]
Google says it was the target of a massive 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack in September 2017, the highest bandwidth attack ever reported. In a blog post exploring the growth of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Google revealed that it was the target of a six-month campaign that utilized multiple methods of attack. “Despite simultaneously targeting thousands […]
The U.S. Department of Justice and eleven state Attorneys General are suing Google for allegedly violating antitrust laws and maintaining a monopoly in the search engine and online advertising markets. Google, the DOJ says, is the “monopoly gatekeeper to the internet for billions of users and advertisers,” and has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and […]
Google is getting new artificial intelligence tools that improve Google’s search service and account for misspellings and provide more accurate search results. The improvements rely heavily on AI and machine learning, including Google’s BERT language understanding system, which is now used in almost every search in English. This will help users find content even if […]
Google is rebranding its G Suite group of productivity apps like Gmail, Meet, Docs, Sheets and more as Google Workspace along with a new user experience and new solutions as the company looks to better compete with Microsoft. Along with the rebranding are new features designed to make the variety of workflow and productivity tools […]
Organizations around the world have embraced remote or hybrid work with varying degrees of adoption. Some are beginning to bring their employees back to the office in full, some are doing so in phases until the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, and others like Google are offering a more hybrid approach. Sundar Pichai, CEO of […]
Videoconferencing and collaboration apps like Google Meet are, for obvious reasons, crucially important right now. To that end, Google has worked over the last few months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to improve Meet and better integrate it with Gmail and other G Suite tools. Now, the Google Meet mobile apps for iOS and […]
Google is taking steps to replace a four-year college degree with six-month certificate programs that teach candidates how to perform in-demand jobs. These courses, which the company is calling Google Career Certificates, “teach foundational skills that can help job-seekers immediately find employment,” according to a recent Inc report. “College degrees are out of reach for many Americans, […]
Google is reportedly trying to test a 6GHz network in 17 U.S. states and is seeking authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to do so. The Verge, citing a Business Insider story, reports that Google wants to experiment with 6GHz spectrum to “produce technical information relevant to the utility of these frequencies for providing broadband […]
Google is reportedly planning to replace its consumer-oriented video calling app Duo with business video calling app Meet in a bid to compete with Zoom and others currently dominating the videoconferencing market. According to 9to5Google, the company’s consumer communication services Duo, Message and Androids Phone app were placed under the leadership of G Suite Vice […]
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