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Introduction The concept of privacy has been a cornerstone of legal systems for centuries. With the advent of the digital age, however, the definition and scope of privacy have become increasingly complex. One of the most contentious issues in this regard is the tracking of user activity by technology companies. Google, one of the world's largest tech giants, has faced significant scrutiny...
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As an experiment, we asked Google's Artificial Intelligence engine, Bard, to compose an article to answer the question "Does AI have a place in Continuing Legal Education?". This is what it came up with. Artificial intelligence (AI) has a growing role in continuing legal education (CLE). AI can be used to automate tasks, provide personalized learning experiences, and assess student...
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Google is rolling out a new feature for its Chrome Web browser that will inform users if the passwords they enter for the sites they are visiting has been compromised in a major, known data breach. Google first introduced this technology in early 2019 as the Password Checkup extension. In October 2019, it became a part of the Password Checkup in your Google Account, where you can conduct a scan...
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By Mark Rosch While many people are familiar with the ability to type or enter a link to a Web page written in a foreign language into the Google Translate tool, fewer are aware that you can also handwrite or draw characters or pictographs of languages (such as Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) that do not use the "Latin/Roman/Western" characters used in the English (and other Western...
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Google is shutting down it's Google+ (Google Plus) social networking site. Google is shutting down its social networking site after "reportedly failing to publicly disclose a security bug affecting hundreds of thousands of accounts on the service," (according to CNN). The "security bug" is reportedly far-reaching. According to The Washington Post, "Google is shutting down its...
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Did Google mean to take away the ability to turn off "Instant Predictions" in search? Or did it just get lost in the last update of the Chrome browser? I had a look at my Google Search Settings today and was surprised by something I saw...or rather, something I didn't see. Ordinarily, Google offers you the ability to (somewhat) manage when you see the page of Instant Search...
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In a blog post, Google announced that Gmail users can now receive email attachments up to 50MB in size. By way of an explanation, Google recognizes that, "sometimes you need to receive large files as direct email attachments." The key phrase here is "direct email attachments." This change appears to be an effort to minimize Gmail account holders' need to use third party,...
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Updated: November 13, 2016 Many paid legal research products such as LexisNexis and Westlaw offer the ability to search for keywords within a certain number of words from one another (a number that you define). For example, some pay databases allow you to search w/ (WITHIN any number of words that you indicate, such as w/2), /s (in the SAME SENTENCE), and /p (in the SAME PARAGRAPH). Google does...
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Google has announced yet another new name for its suite of cloud-based office productivity and collaboration software. The product most-recently known as Google Apps for Work in now called "G Suite." According to Google, "[the] new name ... better reflects [their] mission. The G Suite is a paid version of the tools also available to registered users of Google's...
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Google is apparently discontinuing the public "Hangouts On Air" feature. Hangouts On Air allowed users to broadcast a video stream (lecture, presentation, performance, or other event) and make it accessible to anyone with the URL. Public streaming of events will still be available via Google's YouTube Live feature. The change is part of Google's strategy to target Hangouts...
