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Super Bowl: How Australian Mitch Wishnowsky could become second Australian to win a ring

Perth-born Mitch Wishnowsky, 27, will become the second Australian to win a Super Bowl ring if the San Francisco 49ers win the match.




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Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke reveals why she won't Google herself

Former Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke has revealed she won't Google herself.




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Super Bowl viewers blast placement of sad 'Loretta' Google ad about an 85-year-old man with dementia

People had very strong reactions to Google's 'Loretta' Super Bowl commercial 




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NICKY MORGAN explains her plan to decriminalise nonpayment of TV levy

NICKY MORGAN: Decriminalisation of TV licence evasion was previously looked at by David Perry QC. It has now been five years since the Perry Review.




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Justice Department intensifies antitrust probe into Google

On Tuesday, several state attorneys general investigating Google met with Justice Department officials to coordinate their efforts to probe the search and advertising giant.




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Ring prompts users to share videos of 'neighborly moments' that show people doing good deeds

Ring introduced a 'neighborly moments' tag to its app which usually serves as a means for sharing 'suspicious' or apparently criminal behavior caught on camera with users and police.




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What is the country's most loved sex position? Love Island's 'Eagle' comes out on top

New research has shown that 11 cities in the UK, including Blackburn, Bournemouth and Bradford, named missionary as their all-time favourite as Valentine's Day approaches.




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Melbourne lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson sues Google to unmask an anonymous reviewer

Barrister and solicitor Zarah Garde-Wilson, 42, believes the review was written by an a competitor and filed a lawsuit against Google in the Federal Court on Monday.




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America's 50 richest towns in 2020

Bloomberg on Thursday released its Richest Places annual index, and Atherton, California tops the list for the fourth year in a row with an annual household income of $525,324.




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Google removes nearly 600 apps for spam-like ads after they were downloaded 4.5 BILLION times

Apps violated rules on ad policies, by showing ads that were 'displayed to users in unexpected ways, including impairing or interfering with the usability of device functions'




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Smart speakers listen to users up to 19 times per day because they hear random words heard on TVs

A Northeastern University study found smart speakers were randomly set off to listen to users by words spoken on television sets that were in the same room as many as 19 times per day.




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Novel privacy tool erases humans from live video feeds in real-time to hide you from webcam spies

A YouTube video posted by Jason Mayes, a Google Web Engineer, shows off an algorithm that eliminates humans from a webcam feed in real-time, leaving only the background in tact.




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Google asks US government for permission to continue working with Huawei

Google has applied to the US government for permission to continue to provide the Chinese smartphone provider Huawei with its services, along with 'hundreds of other companies'.




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Alphabet unveils AI camera system that monitors fish populations with the goal of feeding humanity

A blog post describes project Tidal, which is a part of Alphabet's 'X' division that develops 'moonshot' projects. Tidal is creating a computer vision system that uses AI to monitor fish health.




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The apps that help home-bound workers smarten their appearance

With more companies telling employees to work from home because of the coronavirus, MailOnline has taken a look at some of the best and worst AR apps to smarten you up during a video call.




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Working from home as a precaution against coronavirus could 'strain the internet'

Some experts fear remote access, video conferencing and the use of VPNs may cause a data bottleneck but Openreach in the UK says it believes it could handle home-working on a mass scale.




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UK's broadband network 'won't cope' with millions working from home during coronavirus crisis

The added strain of remote access, video conferencing and the use of VPNs may cause some difficulties for the country's broadband infrastructure.




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YouTube users search for 'Videos for Cats' 55m times in 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Dining, a wildlife photographer from Cornwall who has been active on YouTube for 10 years, was the top beneficiary of this bizarre trend.




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Google urges workers across US to work from home to avoid coronavirus

Google's parent company Alphabet sent out a memo on Tuesday to its workers in 11 offices across North America, recommending that they work remotely until at least April 10, if their roles permit it.




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Coronavirus UK: Boris Johnson meets experts to beat fake news

They will join Health Secretary Matt Hancock and top health figures including Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Simon Stevens, the head of NHS England.




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AHEAD OF THE GAME: Billy Gilmour sparks Sky Sports photoshop panic after Chelsea star's rapid rise

MATT HUGHES - AHEAD OF THE GAME: Billy Gilmour was so far from Chelsea's first team that the club did not put him forward when Sky Sports filmed their walk-on shots at the start of the season.




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Social media giants team up to combat coronavirus misinformation

Major tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have issued a joint statement on their efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has killed over 7,100 people.




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Google's website offering coronavirus test appointments filled up in one day 

Verily, Google's sister company, which was helping Americans living in the San Francisco Bay Area book appointments to get tested for coronavirus reached capacity one day after launching.




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Android 11 documents confirm file sharing feature called 'Fast Share' that mimics Apple's 'Air Drop'

According to release notes discovered in Android 11, the mobile operating system is working on a feature calls 'Fast-Share' that allows users to share files instantly if they're within proximity.




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Couples share self-isolation horror stories as they are forced to work from home amid coronavirus

Couples have shared their self-isolation horror stories, as they've been forced to work together from home in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic.




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Former star Google engineer faces up to ten years in jail

A former Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets from its self-driving car program has agreed to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors, according to documents filed in a California court yesterday.




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Google alerts users to call a doctor if they search for medical-related locations for coronavius

Google has added an alert that encourages users to call a doctor when the search for medical locations or search topics about coronavirus in order to help limit the spread of the virus.




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Google to provide location data to the UK government

Google is reportedly working with the UK government to provide anonymised location data to help identify the parts of the country where social distancing measures aren't being adhered to.




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Employees urged to turn off smart speakers while working from home during the coronavirus

As millions around the globe work from home to limit the spread of coronavirus, employers are urging staff to turn off their smart speakers to keep the devices from listening to phone calls.




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US government is 'in talks with Facebook and Google' to track coronavirus

The US government wants to see if private-sector companies could compile the data in a way that would allow them to map the spread of the deadly virus.




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Kogan frenzy sale on home office equipment, hand sanitiser, fitness equipment and HUGE plasma TVs

Online retailer Kogan has launched a massive 'frenzy' sale on home essentials as Australians increasingly stay indoors during the coronavirus pandemic.




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Where they refuse to stay home: Arkansas has four counties where people are going out MORE

The data, released on Friday by Google, uses aggregated, anonymized data harvested from from Google Maps to track recent changes in population movement.




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Taiwan bans Zoom for any government use and recommends workers use Google or Microsoft instead

The government of Taiwan has banned the popular video conferencing tool Zoom from being used for all official state business, and instead it recommends workers use Google or Microsoft.




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Let them eat play! Google makes its video game streaming service Stadia free for two months

Google will make its video game streaming service Stadia free for two months while many around the world are living under restrictive shutdown policies. Current subscribers are eligible.




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The clump of 33 trees on Adak Island in Alaska that forms 'America's smallest national forest'

'Adak National Forest' - which looks like a big bush from a distance - can be found on the remote Alaskan island of Adak, part of the volcanic Aleutian archipelago.




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Google may be developing own processor for powering its line of Pixel phones and Chromebook laptops

Google's development of a processor for Pixel phones and Chromebooks could materialize a chip as soon as early next year and could help the tech giant support on-board artificial intelligence.




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Nest cameras reduced to default video quality in an effort to preserve internet capacity

According to an email from the Google-owned home security company sent to users, it will lower users' cameras to their default settings automatically to 'conserve internet resources.'




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Google and Facebook will be forced to pay media organisations for news content

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will on Monday announce a mandatory code on digital platforms to be finalised by July, bringing forward a November deadline.




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'Make Facebook and Google pay for UK media news content'

Ex-Culture Committee chair Damian Collins is urging the government to follow the example of Australia, where new rules are being brought in to help prop up publications amid coronavirus turmoil.




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Increase in UK Google searches for home workouts, deliveries and recipes during coronavirus lockdown

Investigators used the search engine marketing tools Google Trends and SEMrush to determine what UK internet users have been looking up in lockdown.




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Online searches for 'bread', 'at home workout', 'animal crossing' and 'buzz cut' soar

Worldwide data reveals an all-time peak in queries pertaining to 'buzz cut' as people are forced to cut their own hair amid lockdown.




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Twitter's Jack Dorsey gives nearly $400m less to charity than the $1 billion he claimed

Dorsey tweeted that he would donate a billion dollars in the form of shares in Square to help coronavirus efforts but Securities Exchange Filings show he has donated less than that.




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Apple will release COVID-19 tracking technology to governments weeks before previously planned

France's Les Echos also reports that Breton also pressed Apple to guarantee that the technology would be built with privacy in mind as well as being voluntary and transparent.




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A new poll suggests 60 PERCENT of Americans are unable or unwilling to use coronavirus-tracking apps

According to a recent survey, three out of five Americans are either unable or unwilling to use contact tracing technology that uses a phone's Bluetooth signal to track the spread of COVID-19.




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Google searches for the coronavirus are FOUR TIMES higher than for the Super Bowl

Google has been working tirelessly to combat the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus and found searches related to the pandemic are four times higher than the Super Bowl.




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Google makes its video conferencing service Meet free in a bid to unseat popular rivals like Zoom

Meet was previously only available to customers who paid for Google's G Suite, but the service will be free without restrictions until Sept. 30 in a bid to challenge rivals like Zoom.




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Government scientist hints NHSX is useless unless users get Covid test results within 24 hours

Underscoring the need for speed, the Oxford scientist said a fast turnaround could 'make the difference between an epidemic starting to resurge towards the second wave or not'.




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iPhone shipments to China fall 35 percent even as the country's smartphone market continues to grow 

iPhone shipments to China fell by 35 percent in November, the second straight month of double-digit declines in the country compared to the same periods the previous year, likely due to tariffs.




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A Foxconn scheme sold more than 300,000 bootleg iPhones made from defective parts

Workers at Foxconn's biggest iPhone assembly plant were allegedly running a side business selling bootleg phones made from defective components that should have been destroyed.  




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Larry Emdur faces off with a giant goanna near his Sydney home

The Morning Show host Larry Emdur is known for his affable wit. And on Saturday, the 55-year-old showed his signature good humour when he faced a giant goanna near his Sydney home.