| Google, Facebook, Amazon decry French digital tax as 'discriminatory'
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 American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory. President Donald Trump is considering retaliating against the tax - approved July 11 - with punitive tariffs on French wine imports, prompting an investigation by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). The so-called GAFA companies appea
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| SC issues notices to Centre, social media majors on Facebook plea
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| The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Centre, Twitter, Google, and YouTube on a plea filed by Facebook seeking transfer to the court petitions pending before different high courts, demanding interlinking of Aadhaar database with social media profiles.Several petitions are pending before Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh High Courts seeking their direction for the interlinking of Aadhaar data with social media accounts for identity authentication.A bench of Justice Deepak Gupta and Justice Aniruddha Bose said the Madras High Court shall continue hearing the pleas but shall not pass any order.The apex court will further take up the matter for hearing on September 13. The petition was filed by the social media giant last week.Facebook and WhatsApp told the bench that the matter should be adjudicated by it and sought transfer of petitions pending before high courts to the top court as any order passed against them will have global ramifications.Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, .
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| Google Chrome Is Getting A Massive Security Upgrade
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 Managing all your passwords is already a task. When reminded it should be rigorous and tough-to-guess, it's almost impossible. Luckily, Google Chrome is now looking to add in a Password Checkup feature to tell you when your data's been compromised and to remind you to update your passwords. Paired with a password manager, you'll be a tough digital cookie to crack. Let's explain.
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| Google and Gmail were down for thousands of users, mostly in the United States (GOOGL, GOOG)
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 • Google and Gmail appear to be experiencing issues for thousands of users largely in the United States, according to user reports posted on Down Detector. • Most users appear to be having problems logging into their Google accounts. • Google and other large tech firms have experienced technical issues this year. • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Google and its popular email service, Gmail, experienced issues on Monday for thousands of users largely in the United States, according to Google's services dashboard, reports on social media, and online tools that monitor website outages. The issues appeared to be affecting the East Coast near cities such as New York and Boston, as well as areas on the West Coast near San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to Down Detector, which tracks website outages. The live map on Down Detector also showed that people near Houston and Dallas were reporting outages. By roughly 4 p.m. ET on Monday, Google had updated its dashboard to to indicate that ...
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| Google brings Linux app support to some older Chromebooks (including Chromebook Pixel 2015)
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| Chrome OS started out as a browser-based operating system that could run web apps only. Eventually Google added support for Android apps, and then for Linux apps, making Chromebooks more useful as general-purpose laptops. But while most new Chromebooks feature out-of-the-box support for Android and Linux apps, many older models do not… and it looked […] The post Google brings Linux app support to some older Chromebooks (including Chromebook Pixel 2015) appeared first on Liliputing.
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| NVIDIA's game streaming service comes to Android this fall
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| Consoles and gaming PCs aren't going anywhere for the foreseeable future -- but as compression algorithms and internet connections improve, game streaming is almost ready for prime time. Earlier today, Google announced that Cyberpunk 2077 and other p...
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