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]]>Ms. Chauhan is depicted in a saree, sitting with a pen and paper, in a doodle by New Zealand-based artist Prabha Mallya. On one side, a scene from her poem ‘Jhansi ki Rani,’ one of the most iconic poems in Hindi literature, is depicted, and on the other, liberation fighters.
Ms. Chauhan was a trailblazing writer and freedom fighter who rose to national fame amid a male-dominated era of literature, according to Google.
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]]>“As kids and teens spend more time online, parents, educators, child safety and privacy experts, and policy makers are rightly concerned about how to keep them safe,” said Google product and user experience director Mindy Brooks.
Here’s how the image request can be sent to Google:
The company said that it will allow users under the age of 18 to request for removal of their images from Google search results.
It also said that the parents or guardians can also make the request on behalf of children if they are not able to do so on their own.
Google, however, said that the image won’t be removed from the web. “Of course, removing an image from search doesn’t remove it from the web, but we believe this change will help give young people more control of their images online,” said Brooks.
The search giant is also making “safe search” as the default setting for users under 18, which up to now had been the case only for under-13 users.
The changes are also being implemented on its apps including YouTube, Google Search and Google Assistant. On YouTube, content from 13- to 17-year-olds will be private by default, the tech giant said.
YouTube will also, by default, include reminders for younger users to take a break and to go to sleep at bedtime as well as disable the autoplay of consecutive videos.
When it comes to advertisements, Google is changing the way it shows ads to minors, blocking any “age-sensitive” categories and banning targeting based on the age, gender or interests of people under 18.
The move, according to the company, will help younger users make informed decisions about their online footprint and digital privacy.
The company also said it would no longer collect location history for the age group.
Protections for children in online services have gained a lot of attention in Silicon Valley lately. Apple last week announced new protections against explicit images in its Messages app.
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]]>It is an experiment taking place across Silicon Valley, which often sets trends for other large employers.
Facebook and Twitter also cut pay for remote employees who move to less expensive areas, while smaller companies including Reddit and Zillow have shifted to location-agnostic pay models, citing advantages when it comes to hiring, retention and diversity.
Alphabet Inc’s Google stands out in offering employees a calculator that allows them to see the effects of a move. But in practice, some remote employees, especially those who commute from long distances, could experience pay cuts without changing their address.
Our compensation packages have always been determined by location, and we always pay at the top of the local market based on where an employee works from,” a Google spokesperson said, adding that pay will differ from city to city and state to state.
One Google employee, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, typically commutes to the Seattle office from a nearby county and would likely see their pay cut by about 10% by working from home full-time, according estimates by the company’s Work Location Tool launched in June.
The employee was considering remote work but decided to keep going to the office – despite the two-hour commute. “It’s as high of a pay cut as I got for my most recent promotion. I didn’t do all that hard work to get promoted to then take a pay cut,” they said.
Jake Rosenfeld, a sociology professor at Washington University in St. Louis who researches pay determination, said Google’s pay structure raises alarms about who will feel the impacts most acutely, including families.
“What’s clear is that Google doesn’t have to do this,” Rosenfeld said. “Google has paid these workers at 100% of their prior wage, by definition. So it’s not like they can’t afford to pay their workers who choose to work remotely the same that they are used to receiving.”
Screenshots of Google’s internal salary calculator seen by Reuters show that an employee living in Stamford, Connecticut – an hour from New York City by train – would be paid 15% less if she worked from home, while a colleague from the same office living in New York City would see no cut from working from home. Screenshots showed 5% and 10% differences in the Seattle, Boston and San Francisco areas.
Interviews with Google employees indicate pay cuts as high as 25% for remote work if they left San Francisco for an almost as expensive area of the state such as Lake Tahoe.
The calculator states it uses U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan statistical areas, or CBSAs. Stamford, Connecticut, for example, is not in New York City’s CBSA, even though many people who live there work in New York.
A Google spokesperson said the company will not change an employee’s salary based on them going from office work to being fully remote in the city where the office is located. Employees working in the New York City office will be paid the same as those working remotely from another New York City location, for example, according to the spokesperson.
Google did not specifically address the issue for commuters from areas such as Stamford, Connecticut.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by The Edge Media staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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]]>The game will feature on the ‘Doodles’ on the main page of the search engine.
This is the largest-ever interactive Google Doodle game so far, whose opening cinematic and the characters were designed and animated by the Tokyo-based Studio 4°C.
The game presents a 16-bit adventure set within the game world of Champion Island.
Players can join one of four colour teams and play as Lucky the calico and compete in seven sport mini-games to defeat sport champions and obtain sacred scrolls.
Players contribute to a real-time global leaderboard.
The Tokyo Olympics were originally scheduled for July 24 to August 9, 2020, followed by the Paralympics from August 25 to September 6. They were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and rescheduled to July 23 to August 8, 2021 and August 24 to September 5, 2021, respectively.
Pandemic restrictions mean that for the first time in Olympic history, no domestic or overseas spectators will be allowed to attend the Games.
Athletes, support staff and media are subject to strict Covid-19 protocols, including regular testing and daily health checks.
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]]>To hold limitless group video conversations with three or more people, Google Workspace users will now need to subscribe to a premium account. Google Meet’s regulations have been modified to state that basic Gmail accounts can now hold a group call with three or more attendees for no more than 60 minutes at a time.
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]]>“In each country now there is a debate about what speech is OK and what should be allowed.. In some ways I think we pull back from the bigger picture that many countries around the world are restricting the flow of information and drawing much more rigid boundaries,” he said.
The Google chief urged “countries with strong democratic traditions and values” to stand up against the potential fragmenting of the internet.
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]]>“Today’s Doodle is popping up to wish everyone a Happy Father’s Day!” the search engine said. The doodle is accompanied by some early sketches and a behind-the-scenes look at the stop-motion artwork by Doodler Olivia When.
Father’s Day recognises the contribution of fathers or father-figures in raising children and the role that they play in our lives.
In most countries, including US, the day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June, but countries like Spain and Portugal traditionally celebrate it on March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph. Taiwan celebrates it on August 8, Thailand on December 5, and Russia on February 23. India follows the US date.
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]]>A revision of the proposal by Google to discontinue support for certain of the cookies in Chrome began by the Competition & Market Authority in January.
Companies within the $250bn global internet advertising sector were alarmed that the deletion of cookies in the most popular browser in the world might damage its capacity to gather and rely on Google’s databases for personalizing adverts.
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]]>Kannada is spoken of by roughly 40 million people in South India. The Government of Karnataka also criticized this on Thursday and cautioned against Google. Ministry of Forest, Arvind Limbawali, said, “That’s something that needs to be condemned. If the Kannada language is disregarded or insults Kannada by Google or someone else, suitable measures will be taken against them.”
A notice will be soon sent to Google regarding the matter.
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]]>Notices have been sent to the Center, Delhi Government, Internet Service Providers Association of India, Facebook, and the pornographic site by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh. They were asked to submit the responses to the plea by Google.
No interim order would be sought now since Google informed that it was an intermediary, but not a social media intermediary.
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