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| | | RIP: Google Hangouts Begins Wind-Down This Year, But Service Will Live On in Chat and Meet Spinoffs | | Android Police | In March 2017, Google announced that Hangouts would split into Meet and Chat apps, kicking off what has been a long, slow road to shutdown for the original version of the platform. Almost two years later, we now have an official timetable for the winding-down of the well-used service as Google attempts to wrestle a bigger share of the team communication market away from competitors like Slack. | | Can You Spot When You’re Being Phished? | | Google | Identifying phishing can be harder than you think. Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw has made a quiz with Google to test your phishing chops. To make this quiz, the team drew from materials they've used to train thousands of journalists, political figures, and activists. Can you tell what's fake? | | Trojan Malware Is Back and It's the Biggest Hacking Threat to Your Business | | ZDNet | Trojan malware attacks against business targets have rocketed in the last year, as cyber criminals alter their tactics away from short-term gain and in-your-face ransomware attacks towards more subtle, long-term campaigns with the aim of stealing information including banking information, personal data, and even intellectual property. | | Google Appeals $57M GDPR Fine, Defends Privacy Practices | | CNET | The search giant is contesting the penalty, which is the largest to be issued so far under Europe's new privacy law. |
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| | | The 15-Minute Chromebook Tune-Up | | Computerworld | Make your Chromebook faster, smarter, and more pleasant to use with these easy-to-follow annual steps. | | How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day | | HBR | The average professional spends 28% of the work day reading and answering email, according to a McKinsey analysis. For the average full-time worker in America, that amounts to a staggering 2.6 hours spent and 120 messages received per day. Here are the five ways we unnecessarily lose this time and how to get it back. |
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| | | 5 IT Trends Shaping 2019 CIO Strategies | | SearchCIO | Tech executives sound off on the IT trends they see shaping CIO strategies in 2019. AI and cloud loom large, but the test for CIOs is not just technical. |
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