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The New York-based firm announced this on its website, saying Neverware and CloudReady are now officially part of Google and the Chrome OS team. Neverware owns the software application called CloudReady that allows users to convert a PC into a system that runs Chrome OS.

The FTC said in a statement late on Monday that it is issuing orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, "requiring them to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices, and how their practices affect children and teens".

In May this year, Google had said it would allow employees to work from home till the middle of next year if their roles permit. Google had earlier set January 2021 as a tentative timeline for its workers to return to offices. The new extension of the work from home order by Google will affect "nearly all" of the company's 200,000 employees.

According to Downdetector, Google Meet and Google Play and were also inaccessible for some users. Most other Google services including Google Classroom also got affected by the outage. With Gmail, problems reported by users ranged from accessing website, logging and messages issues.

According to Downdetector, YouTube, Google, Google Meet, Google Hangouts, Google Play and Gmail were down. With Gmail, nearly 15 per cent faced problems with the website, 79 per cent had problems in logging in while 14 per cent mentioned messages issues.

Famous for her work on algorithmic bias, particularly in facial recognition technology, Gebru who was the technical co-lead of Google's Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team took to Twitter last week to explain why she has been fired.

Pichai was speaking at the Singapore FinTech Festival, he said that the question of inclusion and opportunity is highly personal to him.

A team of Google security researchers has revealed a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system that is under active exploitation.

"More than three years ago, we launched the Trusted Contacts app to help users know where their loved ones are," the company said in a statement.

Google last month launched a high-quality Wi-Fi platform called Orion designed to bring private, secure and fast Wi-Fi roaming for consumers at public places.