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NEW DELHI: The autofill feature is set to change on Chrome for Android. According to news report in Chrome Story, "Google Chrome for Android is getting an improved autofill UI. The new layout will make it easy for you to choose from address and passwords etc that you have saved in Chrome." Autofill is one of the most convenient and time-saving features of Chrome. In the current autofill UI, users see a pop-up from the text box with the available username/passwords. Once filled, it completes the rest of the details based on the option that the user chose. However, this autofill takes up a considerable portion of the screen. And users may not have a way way to use autofill information for the box they are filling in. With the new UI, this comes in a bar that appears above the keyboard, in a horizontally scrollable list. As per the report, "Chrome now shows you three additional icons to choose autofill options. The first one, the lock symbol is for passwords, second, the card icon is … [Read more...] about Chrome for Android is getting new UI for autofill

Security attacks such as phishing and malware have become quite common on the internet. To combat the menace, Google Chrome now has a security update that users can opt for. Called ‘Enhanced Safe Browsing’, this security upgrade will allow Chrome to proactively detect phishing attacks, malware and other web based threats.Chrome will do this by proactively checking if pages and downloads are dangerous by sending information about them to Google Safe Browsing.Going forward, Google will also add more protections to this upgrade such as tailored warnings for phishing sites, file downloads, cross product alerts and more. … [Read more...] about Google adds new feature to Search, Assistant and Maps, update will show Covid-19 testing labs

Most of us use the incognito mode in Google Chrome for private browsing. The USP of Google’s incognito mode is that it does not save history, information entered by the user in forms or browser cookies. The good folks at Google have now decided to take security and privacy in incognito mode a notch higher.You can now control whether you wish to allow third-party cookies in incognito mode. Chrome will now block third-party cookies by default in incognito mode. If you wish to allow third-party cookies for specific sites, you can click the ‘eye’ sign on the address bar.The feature, as per Google’s blog, will be gradually rolled out. For the uninitiated, third-party cookies allow websites to track a user across the web. With Chrome’s new update, you can keep your information secure by blocking these cookies. … [Read more...] about Google cracks down on visually-misleading information, will add fact-check labels to images

Internet search giant Google has started rolling out the dark theme support for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides for Android smartphone users. This was announced by the company on a G suite blog post where it said that these platforms will automatically adapt the dark mode for handsets, so users will not have to separately enable it. However, they will get the option to turn off dark mode for Docs, Sheets, or Slides independently. If users customise this, the app will stay in that mode irrespective of what theme the smartphone is working on. The dark mode support for these apps will come automatically to Android phones so users don’t have to do anything to get access to it. To turn off the dark mode for the app, users can head to Menu > Settings > Theme > Dark in each app. When using the Dark theme, you can preview your current document or sheet in the Light theme using More > View in light theme. This support is rolling out to users already and the extended rollout … [Read more...] about Google enables dark mode for Docs, Sheets, and Slides for Android smartphone users

Now let’s take a closer look at TV speaker compatibility in particular. The Google Home Max cannot connect with a TV wirelessly and play sound. Your only option is to plug it in manually with the 3.5 mm audio input or use the USB-C port. The Echo Studio, meanwhile, supports Dolby Atmos and 360 Reality Audio codecs, which makes it easier to use this speaker with TVs. Both speakers support wireless connections with their relative streaming devices — the Studio works with all Fire TV devices, and the Home Max works with Chromecast. … [Read more...] about Amazon Echo Studio vs. Google Home Max

Top officials from Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc will appear before U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a hearing on foreign influence and election security, the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee announced. The remote hearing will discuss the technology industry's actions since the 2016 U.S. elections, state-sponsored disinformation efforts, and other related issues as the country moves toward the Nov. 3 presidential contest, the panel said. The hearing will also look at misinformation campaigns amid the novel coronavirus outbreak and recent protests over racism and policing. The witnesses include Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security policy; Nick Pickles, director of Global Public Policy Strategy and Development at Twitter, and Richard Salgado, director for Law Enforcement and Information Security at Google. The hearing comes as Americans are increasingly skeptical about social media companies' ability to make the right decisions about … [Read more...] about US House panel to hold election-security hearing with Facebook, Google, Twitter