Tech Byte - Kids Online Summer Safety
Winnie Wright with Verizon offers tips on keeping kids safe online this summer. She discusses managing privacy settings, internet boundaries, google family link, and the google gizmo watch. Brought to…
Mississippi Attorney General Fitch joins Google lawsuit
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general across the U.S. to file a lawsuit against Google. The attorneys general are alleging exclusionary conduct relating…
Google Outage: Gmail, YouTube, other services knocked offline by data outage
You may have trouble logging into Gmail, YouTube, and several other Google programs this morning. Applications and websites that depend on Google's cloud-based services have been knocked offline after suffering a data outage reported early Monday morning. https://twitter.com/BrantlyWx/status/1338459112800215042 Users around…
Google launches free "Read Along" app for kids
A new app could be a big help for some parents home schooling during the coronavirus pandemic. Google has launched the 'Read Along' app for Android. It can help children five and up learn to read by giving verbal and…
Google Lawsuit
Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that the state has filed suit against Google Inc. The lawsuit is over how the internet giant maintains and uses data collected from Mississippi public school students who have Google’s G Suite for education…
See Google's Self-Driving Car
Google's self-driving car is currently being road-tested in California, Washington, and Texas.
Google and Mississippi Attorney General
An appeals court has ruled that Mississippi’s attorney general can resume an investigation of Google. Overturning a district judge’s ruling saying the company did not have to answer a subpoena by Attorney General Jim Hood. Hood says he’s trying to…
Local Student Wins Google Competition
The decorative logo or “doodle” that changes daily is seen by people using Google all over the world. A student from Hancock High School is one step closer to winning the search engine’s national competition to design it. The contest…