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YouTube recently released a blog post regarding a new metric called the Violative View Rate, which hints that more than 83 million videos, as well as up to 7 billion comments, have been removed for violative content. Not only that, but the blog also hinted that YouTube’s machine learning algorithm has managed to automatically flag up to 94% of the violative content while the remaining was done manually.

It seems that Casio has recently uploaded a new video on their YouTube channel hinting that the Casio GSW-H1000 watch will be launching very soon, and it’s equipped with Google’s Wear OS pre-installed. With that being said, the watch will have access to the Google Play Store.

Digital maps have become an important tool for many of us today. Apps like Google Maps help make navigation easier, but it's only going to get better from now on. In fact, Google plans to introduce over 100 more features in 2021, including Live View.

Most of us are not aware of how much data is being collected from us. But fortunately, researchers consider that a topic interesting enough to study and have managed to gain some insights. In this case, it's related to data being collected by Android and iOS.

Do you know the joke about sharks biting undersea cables? Obviously, they're not always the culprit, but cable faults happen every year and they can be disruptive to our region. Now, Facebook and Google plan to alleviate the issue by building more cables.

When it comes to Chromebooks, it's usually never viewed as a notebook for gaming because of its association with education. Well, that could be changed in the future as there is evidence that Google is working on a Game Mode for ChromeOS.

Google recently made a post on their blog not too long ago, stating that they will be developing a TikTok-like product for the workplace called Threadit. Just like TikTok, it allows users to send small video messages to other team members to communicate quickly and concisely along with visual aid.

It seems that the developers of Google Chrome have recently unveiled a new Live Caption feature that will automatically generate captions on webpages that are playing audio or video. Previously, a similar feature was initially available on devices such as Google Pixel or Samsung Galaxy smartphones.

Remember Fortnite getting banned from Apple and Google's app stores? Epic Games may not have won its lawsuit yet, but the company's action has had a clear effect. In fact, Apple reduced its service fee last year and now Google is following suit.

Yup, you read that right. Google may have to pay up to $5 billion over a lawsuit for alleging collecting data on users when they surf on incognito mode. The lawsuit was filed back in June for violating the privacy laws and a federal judge just recently denied Google's request for dismissal of the lawsuit.