Once, just once, I’d like to sit down at my computer on a Monday morning and not want to smash my face repeatedly into the keyboard. Unfortunately, today’s not that day: because Google is rolling out Heads Up, a feature that’ll alert users when they’re walking and using their phones. To put that another way, you’ll get a reminder on your phone to stop looking at your phone while you’re using your phone....
Google introduced new features for password protection at its virtual developer conference Google IO today. One of the most notable features was sending alerts for your compromised credentials and let you change them quickly through Chrome. The company’s password manager — built into Chrome and Android — will automatically send you an alert when one of your saved passwords is part of a data breach. But that’s not all: the company is introducing will let you also change it quickly in Chrome, so you don’t have to sign in to the site, and go to the change password field....
Google Appsusers requiring rock-solid stability have some pleasant news today, Googlewill now compensateits paying users for any downtime to the cloud-based office suite whatsoever. As much as their users would prefer them to never be down, Web-based services do occasionally break down. Until now, Google has had a 99.9% Service Level Agreement with its Apps customers,meaning that it would pay compensation for any unscheduled downtime suffered, but any routine maintenance, or breaks in service of up to 10 minutes, would not be covered....
Your Google searches for breaking news stories may now produce a surprising outcome: a warning that your results could be unreliable. The company has started showing notifications for searches on emerging topics, which suggest that users return later when more information is available. The notice is Google’s latest efforts to mitigate misinformation in search results for breaking news. In ablog post,Danny Sullivan, public liaison for search at Google, said that sometimes reliable information isn’t online at the time that users search:...
Google is so sick of you relying on passwords that the company hopes to one dayditch the authentication methodaltogether. But in the meantime, the search giant is introducing a simpler way of improving security online: activating two-factor authentication (2FA) on your Google accounts by default. The Big G currently offers 2FA — also known as two-step verification (2SV) — as an optional setting, but will soon turn it on automatically....
