Monthly Archives: November 2022

Managing your location data

Location information lets us offer you a more helpful experience when you use our products. From Google Maps’ driving directions that show you how to avoid traffic, to Google Search surfacing local restaurants and letting you know how busy they are, location information helps connect experiences across Google to what’s most relevant and useful. Over…

Binance, Crypto.com execs tell investors to ‘ask me anything’ following the fall of FTX

Nick Barclay / The Verge Both Binance and Crypto.com hosted live question-and-answer sessions on Monday morning in an attempt to reassure investors that the cryptocurrency exchanges won’t meet the same fate as FTX, which suffered a sudden and catastrophic collapse last week. Thanks to the 40,000+ people for listening in. Will try to do this…

Dramatic “Material You” colors arrive to desktop Chrome Canary builds

Pick a wallpaper, and Chrome will automatically color the browser to match. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] It looks like the beginning of Google’s color-changing “Material You” design language is finally coming to Chrome, at least in the canary builds. Redditor Leopeva64-2 spotted new flags in the latest nightly builds that will automatically recolor the Chrome…

Twitter lays off 5K contractors in surprise 2nd wave of cuts, more mods lost

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Twitter already faces a class-action lawsuit from some staff that the company laid off without providing federally required notice. Now, rather than realize the error of its ways, Twitter decided this weekend that its next round of layoffs should come with no notice at all. On Saturday, Platformer’s…