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Articles tagged “Google”

• AI Training Opt-Out in robots.txt: What the New Token Changes
  Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honor one robots.txt entry, __usage_ai-training, as a site's AI training opt-out. Here is how it works, when it…
• Reddit Login Requirement: What Changes for Logged-Out Readers
  Reddit is moving to a logged-in-only experience, testing it outside the U.S. from Q4 2026. Here is why, what the numbers show, and what it means for readers…
• Chrome Autofill Now Searches Gmail: What Gemini Can Fill In
  Chrome's enhanced autofill can now pull order numbers, tracking codes and flight bookings from Gmail using Gemini with Personal Intelligence. Here is how it…
• Google Can Now Use Gmail and Photos Data for Ads: What Changed
  Google's October 16 privacy policy adds an exception: Gmail, Drive and Photos content can shape ads if you connect those apps to Search through Personal…
• Canada's Permanent Daylight Time: Why Clocks May Be Wrong Nov 1
  British Columbia, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Manitoba have stopped changing their clocks. Here is why phones and calendars that missed the time…
• Google Cloud London Outage: Why One Zone Took Down Banks
  A power event in Google Cloud's europe-west2-b zone disrupted 38 products for about eight hours, taking down Revolut payments and other UK services. Here is…
• Intel vs Arm Googlebooks: Why Some Android Apps Run Slower
  Google says 96.6% of top Android apps work on Intel Googlebooks, but Arm-only native code must be translated on x86. Here is how that works, which apps feel…
• Android's New Scam Protections: What Enhanced Mode Changes
  Google Messages gets an opt-in Enhanced protection mode that sends unknown senders' texts to cloud Gemini for scam checks, while Android blocks apps from…
• Google Play Personal Apps: What Private AI-Built Apps Change
  Google Play now lets adults in the U.S. and select markets run Android apps they built in Google AI Studio on their own devices, privately and without a…
• Fitbit Edge's Replaceable Battery: What It Changes for Trackers
  Google's $179.99 Fitbit Edge is its first repairable fitness tracker. Here is how a replaceable battery changes a tracker's lifespan, what the EU's 2027…
• ChromeOS Updates End in 2034: What Googlebook OS Means for You
  Google will keep patching ChromeOS until mid-2034 while it moves to Googlebook OS, an Android-based system. Here is what changes for Chromebook owners, schools…
• Google Now Controls 25 Percent of Global AI Compute With 3.8 Million TPUs and 1.3 Million GPUs
  A new Financial Times report reveals Google operates roughly 3.8 million TPUs and 1.3 million GPUs — about a quarter of all AI compute on the planet, more than…