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| Google Pulls Photos Feature From Android TV After Bug Exposed Users | Gizmodo | Following the discovery of a bug that showed hundreds of Google accounts as being linked to unrelated individual users, Google has temporarily shut down Photos on Android TV. The mysterious software flaw demonstrated potential privacy concerns, and the company said a fix is in the works. | G Suite Migrate Launches in Beta to Transition Enterprise Data to Google Services | 9to5Google | G Suite encompasses Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Hangouts Chat/Meet, and other web services that compete with legacy products. To make transitioning an enterprise to the cloud easier, Google announced G Suite Migrate in beta. It helps admins assess, plan, and migrate “large amounts of valuable content directly into G Suite.” | Alphabet to Give Businesses the Backstory on How They Got Hacked | PCMag | A new startup from Google's parent, Alphabet, will help companies sift through petabytes-worth of network data to detect whether they've been hacked. The product, called Backstory, comes from the Alphabet subsidiary Chronicle, which launched over a year ago. The system isn't an antivirus tool, but a cloud service that can process a company's network data for signs of malicious activity. Clients can privately upload their "internal security telemetry" to Backstory, which will then break it down and flag any data for hacking threats that a company can then investigate. | What to Expect from Android Q | TechRepublic | Android Q is coming. Learn what you can expect from this new release. |
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| How to Boost Your Wi-Fi Signal: 6 Methods | MakeUseOf | Wi-Fi signal is precious. Moving away from the router invariably means your Wi-Fi signal starts to drop. Go far enough, and you will enter the dark zone: the place where Wi-Fi cannot reach. In that situation, you might wonder how you can boost your Wi-Fi signal. Can you boost it throughout the house? Into the yard? The answer is “Yes,” you can. Here’s how you boost your Wi-Fi signal, so you never lose signal again. | How to Automatically Generate Charts in Google Sheets | How-To Geek | Google Sheets lets you generate charts automatically to create a visually appealing way to convey information. Using charts is a great way to help people retain data more easily than looking at a bunch of numbers. |
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| Delegate App Maker Admin Privileges to Users | G Suite Updates | Google is making it possible for G Suite super admins to delegate access to the App Maker projects report to other users. Among other things, this will allow appropriate employees without super admin privileges to track App Maker projects and for customers to delegate access to their reseller partners. | G Suite Migrate, New First-Party Data Transfer Product, Launching in Beta | G Suite Updates | Google is launching G Suite Migrate in beta. This new first-party product will help admins assess and plan migration projects, and confidently migrate large amounts of valuable content directly into G Suite. |
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