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Google will enlist its own EssilorLuxottica in a bid to level up its incoming smart glasses’ cachet. According to Reuters, Google is partnering with Gucci to make Android XR glasses in the latter company’s styling—a similar approach to Meta, which sells its own version of Ray-Ban – and Oakley-branded smart glasses.

A legal compliant was recently filed against Google over how it handled a user's data. The company has now responded.

All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s called back button hijacking, and Google has thus far tolerated it. That ends in June, when the company will designate it a “malicious practice,

Google has made some controversial decisions related to its flagship search engine in recent years, but this one will probably be pretty popular. The company announced in a developer note (via 9to5google) that it will start punishing websites that hijack users' back buttons in their web browsers.

After a report found that both the App Store and Play Store hosted dozens of "nudify" apps, Google has now responded.

The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.