Chrome tweak stems battery drain
Google's Chromium browser team has come up with a simple fix to address heavy battery drain.
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Google eyes Chrome on Windows laptop battery drain
Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows has been said to have a problem for some time but this week comes news that Google will give it the attention others think the problem quite deserves. Namely, Google is to pay attention ...
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DuckDuckGo can now block the Google Chrome tracking method, FLoC
In an attempt to better track users and predict their search habits, Google Chrome has developed FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). FLoC provides visibility into user data to any website that desires this information.
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A Chrome OS bug might reveal user location history
The Committee on Liberatory Information Technology has announced a long-standing Chromebook bug that could reveal user location history. Evidently already on the radar of Google, the platform has a feature allowing anyone ...
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A new advanced Android malware posing as system update
In recent weeks, Zimperium zLabs researchers revealed unsecured cloud configurations exposing user data across thousands of legitimate Android and iOS applications. Now, zLabs is advising Android users about a clever and ...
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Google Chrome's new Live Caption feature will transcribe speech in videos
First introduced in 2019, Google Chrome's Live Caption accessibility feature offers real-time captions for audio playing on both Pixel and non-Pixel phones, including the Galaxy S20 series, OnePlus 8 series, OnePlus Nord ...
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Google moves away from diet of 'cookies' to track users
Google is weaning itself off user-tracking "cookies" which allow the web giant to deliver personalized ads but which also have raised the hackles of privacy defenders.
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Chrome 88's Manifest V3 sets strict privacy rules for extension developers
The mid-January release of the Chrome 88 browser will include privacy and security measures that raised concerns among some developers during recent months of testing.
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Google team reveals zero-day Windows exploit
Google reported a new zero-day vulnerability in Windows Friday that allows for privilege escalation and sometimes resulted in a crash. The vulnerability is a buffer overflow type in a driver found in Windows versions 7 and ...
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Google launches AI lip-sync challenge
Google has launched a lip-sync challenge for anyone who cares to participate. Those interested can visit the site Google has set up and test their lip-synching skills. The challenge is being run by Google's AI Experiments ...
