Firstly, as for the interface itself, it now boasts a new top utility for discovering and installing applications called Software. OK, so the name isn’t anything to write home about, but it seems faster, and it’s easy enough to use. The type to search function, increasingly important these days, also works well and has some smarts. For instance, if you search for “photo,” the graphic editor GIMP will show up....

Google has been gradually adjusting its lucrative advertising business as the public grows more aware of advertisers’ prying eyeballs – and as Apple has taken more dramatic measure to limit targeted advertising. The new privacy sandbox will give advertisers – as well as app developers who work with third-party ad services – a way to test out Google’s new ad solutions. The new APIs in the privacy sandbox do not use identifiers to track your activity across apps and websites....

The companies announced an expanded partnership Google Cloud Next on Tuesday. Under the deal, General Mills will use Google Cloud as its preferred cloud partner. Top cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, hybrid, SaaS players Google Cloud’s deal with General Mills illustrates how that company has been targeting industries and leveraging its analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence prowess to expand. General Mills plans to migrate its SAP, custom application workloads, Windows licensing and Oracle bare metal servers to Google Cloud....

Three years on, the €4.34 billion fine continues to be the European Commission’s largest ever antitrust fine. When the fine was first handed down, European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager found Google imposed three types of restrictions onto Android device manufacturers and network operators to ensure traffic on Android devices went to Google’s search engine. The European Commission found that Google: Required manufacturers to preinstall the Google Search app and Chrome as a condition for licensing Google’s app store – the Play Store; made payments to some large manufacturers and mobile network operators on the condition that they exclusively preinstall the Google Search app on their devices, and prevented manufacturers from preinstalling Google apps onto devices that ran on Android forks, alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google....

The massive expansion of its capabilities will see it crossing over with Google Pay, which will remain a discrete service in the US, India, and Singapore. The other 40 countries where Google Pay is available will see their localized versions of the app and platform replaced by a unified Google Wallet app. Those in the trio of aforementioned countries, however, will still be able to pay at POS terminals with the credit cards they have stored in either app....

Since 2020, Google has run an open-source Kubernetes-based Capture-the-Flag (CTF) project called kCTF which allows researchers to connect to its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) instances, and try to hack them to capture a flag. Every ‘flag’ caught so far has been a container breakout through a Linux kernel vulnerability. Now Google has built a set of mitigations it believes will make most of the vulnerabilities and exploits it has received this past year more difficult to exploit....

Battery bugs. Notifications bugs. Random performance and usability issues. What’s interesting is that most people have concluded that the bug they are suffering is an Apple bug. A bug in iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone. That’s not true. Most of the time, the bug is down to apps or settings – or perhaps accumulated settings – on the iPhone. Must read: Don’t ever buy an iPhone in July And the problem is that when people create a backup, then wipe their iPhone, but then reload that backup back onto the iPhone the problem manages to jump back onto the hardware....

While most phishing resources open malicious sites in a new tab, this attack opens a pop-up window in the same tab. The legitimate Steam website also uses a pop-up window for user authentication, which makes the credential-snaring scheme all the more convincing. The Computer Emergency Response Team at Group-IB detailed their findings in a blog post early Tuesday. The team found 150 “fraudulent resources” impersonating Steam in July 2022 alone....

The hackers try to extort a ransom by shutting down systems, blocking access to medical records, and affecting other functions that increase the risk to patients. According to the report, the group checks the financial statements of prospective targets before cherry-picking them. The report was published by cybersecurity firm Mandiant. Mandiant chief executive Kevin Mandia said they decided to bring out the story after responding to numerous attacks by the group....

The Level Lock+ is one of only two smart locks in the US market that supports Apple Home Key. This makes the Level Lock+ an absolutely seamless fit for a HomeKit smart home, like mine, and the single most convenient smart lock I’ve tested to date. Also: The best home security systems Smarts aside, a lot of the beauty in the Level Lock+ lies beneath the surface. This is one of the most compact smart locks available, with no built-in keypad or visible indication of it being a smart device; all you see is a deadbolt from the outside and a thumb-turn from inside your home....

Deliveries and in-store availability will begin one week later, on Friday, July 15. The new MacBook Air users Apple’s latest M2 processor, which promises improved performance across the board. However, that’s not the biggest news about the MacBook Air. For the first time since its original design, Apple has completely redesigned the MacBook Air. It’s still impressively thin but now includes a 13.6-inch display and has a 1080p HD FaceTime camera that’s located in a notch cutout at the top of the display....

In addition to unlimited bandwidth and databases for your website, you will have access to a free domain, 100GB of SSD storage, and an email account. So if you’re planning on building your brand, you can opt to have this email account be your go-to. You’ll also get free SSL – a $12 value – and Cloudfare-protected nameservers for peace of mind. As a free bonus, the website will back up weekly, so if there are any major errors or glitches as a result of, say, a massive internet outage, you’ll be able to recover your website data with ease....

More than 95% of Americans consume caffeine, whether it is food, soda, or coffee. In fact, the average U.S. adult consumes up to 260 milligrams each day. With coffee vying for the spot of America’s favorite drink, it brings up an important question: how much caffeine is in coffee, and how much is safe for your health? Using today’s latest studies and statistics, this is what we found. Also: Best espresso machine That morning cup of coffee could be costing you more than you realize....

With a premium VPN, you can continue to access your favorite social media platform regardless of censorship. Here’s how you can access Instagram from Russia: While other censorship in Russia only blocks accounts from outside the country, the Russian ban of Instagram blocks all access to the app. This means an estimated 80 million Russian Instagram users will no longer have access to their accounts or the accounts they follow....

Unfortunately, not every browser is capable of handling security in a way that can keep our data out of the hands of those who should not see it. What can you do? Thanks to DuckDuckGo, there’s an add-on available for every major browser on the market, and it can greatly enhance built-in security measures. That add-on is called DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. What does DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials do? Here’s the shortlist:...

For example, by default, Gmail usually displays five tabs: Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates, and Forums. How do you change this to a layout more conducive to your idea of efficiency? Let me show you. Gmail offers a few customization options, such as: Layout: How much information is displayed in the left pane.Theme: The global theme applied to UI.Inbox Type: The actual layout of the UI.Reading Pane: How the Reading pane is displayed....

You can change your smart TV region by using a reliable VPN. A VPN changes your online location to your desired region and bypasses geo-blocks without resetting your device and deleting your data. I found that ExpressVPN works best with smart TVs because it’s fast and gives you access to plenty of regions. Plus, it’s easy to set up with any smart TV because of its Smart DNS feature called MediaStreamer....

As you can imagine, those contacts became a mess. Not only did I have multiple entries, but I also had contacts with little or no personal information (even missing phone numbers and email addresses). Even so, every new Android device I used imported that wonky list of contacts, eventually creating a beautiful mess for me to deal with. Also: How to enable UWB on your Android phone (and why you should) Imagine how much of a challenge it would be to go through each of those contacts manually....

Another common way to increase performance, or at the very least free up extra storage space, on an Android phone is to clear an app’s cached data and clear Chrome’s cached data for websites you visit. Also: The best tablets (aren’t all iPads) Below I’ll walk you through both processes, which don’t take very long at all. The hardest part is figuring out where to look, and that’s exactly what I’m going to show you....

But… but… but… why would you even need such a thing? Does anyone actually use .txt files anymore? Actually, they do. Consider these cases: Configuration filesContainer manifestsSource codeSimple listsREADME files You’d be surprised at how handy a text file can be. Any use case where you need a document that doesn’t contain the formatting (and other bits) associated with traditional documents is where text files shine. And within the Google Drive ecosystem, there are two ways to generate a plain text file....