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The Tagansky District Court has ordered Google to pay an administrative fine of about 7.2 billion rubles (about $98.4 million), which is around eight percent of the search giant’s annual revenue in Russia. “In the case of an administrative offense provided for in Part 5 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code <…> Google LLC was found guilty … A punishment was imposed in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 7,221,916,235 rubles,” Tagansky District court told in the press service....

For those unaware, one of the interesting features introduced in Microsoft’s Windows 11 is its ability to support Android apps, which means it can run Android apps and games. “Google Play has helped billions of people find and play their favorite games across multiple platforms, including on mobile, tablets and ChromeOS. Starting in 2022, players will be able to experience their favorite Google Play games on more devices: seamlessly switching between a phone, tablet, Chromebook, and soon, Windows PCs,” Greg Hartrell, Product Director, Games on Android and Google Play, said in a statement....

For the unversed, Hangouts, which was originally a feature of Google+, became a standalone product in 2013, when Google began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. The now-defunct cross-platform instant messaging service included messaging, video chat, SMS, and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) features. Starting Monday, mobile users will see an in-app notification asking them to upgrade from Hangouts to Chat in Gmail or the standalone Chat app....

“Chromebooks — which last year were largely used as classroom tools for writing reports and working on projects — are now the main way many students go to school. As distance learning takes place around the world, educators and students have had to quickly adapt to teaching and learning through Chromebooks. And along the way we’ve updated features and tools to make learning from anywhere easier,” reads Google’s blog post....

Keep reading this article to know how to change your Valorant name with just a few steps. Valorant is a F2P first-person shooter game, developed by Riot Games. The codename of the game was “Project A” when it was under closed beta in 2019. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Valorant is one of the biggest eSports FPS titles and it is also competing with its top rival Counter Strike: Global Offensive....

Some prefer the classic left side or right side, similar to distros like Ubuntu. It often helped in taking full advantage of the wide-screen monitors that have become commonplace. You cannot do that on the latest Windows installment, and then lock the taskbar option has disappeared from the taskbar menu. To our luck, there is a registry tweak that can help you move the taskbar in Windows 11 on either of the sides of the screen....

Thanks to advancing computer technologies, you can now perform a reverse video search to find the video that you are looking for. On a consumer level, this technology is still relatively in its early stages of development, so you may not find it as finessed as other technologies like reverse image search. Nonetheless, it has come a far way since its early days and can be extremely beneficial when used correctly....

The demand for the availability of the service is increasing day by day, as we are being introduced by a different set of devices/platforms every year. Gaming consoles are not limited to gaming only, we can do much more than gaming on these gaming consoles, like streaming video content, surfing the internet, etc. Well, if you have got a Nintendo Switch, you might want to enjoy a few OTT services on that large screen other than playing those addictive retro games....

Matt Navarra, a social media analyst, who first spotted this new feature on the profile of Adam Mosseri, current Head of Instagram, posted a screenshot of the image on Twitter. h/t @alex193a pic.twitter.com/ldOX5PO4Eg — Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) September 9, 2022 After the image became viral, Instagram, the Meta-owned company too confirmed to TechCrunch that the social media app is going to start testing a new reposting feature. “We’re exploring the ability to reshare posts in Feed – similar to how you can reshare in Stores – so people can share what resonates with them, and so original creators are credited for their work[…] We plan to test this soon with a small number of people,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement....

Unquestionably, PDF is one of the mainstream document formats that’s used for everything ranging from educational ebooks to important banking statements. If you use, create, edit, combine, organize, annotate or even convert PDF files then it’s important to have a reliable PDF management application. Well, PDF Reader is a feature-packed PDF editing program that’s developed by Kdan Mobile and it simply gets the job done. In this article, we have shared a detailed review of Kdan PDF Reader followed by the three most noteworthy features of this program....

As noted by Wario64 on Twitter this week, Microsoft Store is sending emails to random users with up to $100 gift card with the subject title: “Here’s $100 to start your holiday shopping.” — Wario64 (@Wario64) November 10, 2021 “Had to dig it out of my archives. Would have never been the wiser,” one user responded in the Twitter thread. “Thanks for the heads up! Found it in my deleted folder, you the GOAT,” another user wrote....

In other words, if you have a work or school Microsoft 365 account, you will be able to earn Microsoft Rewards points when searching on Bing. As noted on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, this feature is currently marked as “in development” and scheduled for release for May CY2021. Given below is a full description of the feature: Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account Users in your organization will have the ability to earn Microsoft Rewards points when signed into select Microsoft 365 services (Microsoft Search in Bing) with their organizational (work or school) account....

However, after installing the Windows 10 KB5006670 and Windows 11 KB5006674 updates, Windows customers have started experiencing network printing issues. Upon installing these updates, users of both Windows 10 and Windows 11 have been unable to print on their network printers, and are experiencing the following errors when connecting to a remote printer shared on a Windows print server: 0x000006e4 (RPC_S_CANNOT_SUPPORT) 0x0000007c (ERROR_INVALID_LEVEL) 0x00000709 (ERROR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME) The following Windows platforms are affected by the issue:...

The new Nintendo Switch (OLED model) features a larger, vibrant 7-inch 720p OLED screen with vivid colors and crisp contrast. It also comes with an upgraded Nvidia chip that offers a TV output of 1080p image when connected to a TV. Further, the new Switch features a wide, adjustable stand for easy viewing in tabletop mode, a built-in wired LAN port to connect online when playing in TV mode, 64GB of internal storage (which is expandable up to 2TB via microSDHC or microSD cards), and enhanced audio from the system’s onboard speakers for handheld and tabletop play....

The company said in a blog post that an unauthorized third party had socially engineered a customer support employee by phone on November 3rd and obtained access to certain customer support systems. Major Breach of Data The unauthorized party was able to obtain a list of email addresses for approximately five million people, and full names for a different group of approximately two million people. This included thousands of phone numbers as well, which are of importance to hackers....

EW plays a prominent role in the Russian Armed Forces, particularly in the army, and has been a largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. EW is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. It is used by militaries to target communications, radar, or other military and civilian assets, as well as to protect their forces....

The announcement was made by Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority or Kraftfahrtbundesamt (KBA) on June 29th on its website and first reported by regional broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg on Saturday. The recall program impacts approximately 59,129 Model Y and Model 3 units around the world, which were produced in the year 2022. However, the KBA notice did not specify how many of the affected vehicles were registered in Germany. According to the agency, a software bug is causing the breakdown of e-call feature, which is preventing it from automatically contacting the first emergency responders like 911 in the U....

Apparently, Twitter is looking to revive the microblogging site’s short-form video app, Vine so that it could take on popular Chinese short-video sensation, TikTok reports Axios citing multiple sources. Musk has asked Twitter engineers to work on a rebooted version of Vine so that it could be ready by the end of the year. Vine’s old code base, which hasn’t been changed or updated since the shutdown six years ago, has already been assigned to the engineers to be worked on, states the report....

The Entity List includes Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and its subsidiaries, the world’s most popular drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies. According to the Commerce Department, the action against SMIC stems from China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military-industrial complex. “We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary....

The Steam Deck features a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio), ambient light sensor, 60Hz refresh rate, and maximum brightness level of 400 nits. It is powered by a custom AMD APU, which according to Valve, is optimized for handheld gaming. It sports a Zen 2-based CPU (4-cores and 8-threads) + RDNA 2 GPU (8 compute units), which delivers more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games....