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We've known for more than a year that Google Play Music's days were numbered. Its death had even been officially announced, but it's now really real. Google has just sunset the GPM app on Android and web, providing the knock-out blow to what has been a rather short match.

Open the Android app now and you'll likely be greeted by a white splash screen with a Play Music logo that morphs into a YouTube Music one. Bold text tells you GPM is no longer available and explains that you can transfer your whole library to YTM. Two buttons are provided below that, one to kickstart the transfer process and another to manage your data. The latter takes you to the GPM site where you can download and delete your full library, and delete your recommendation history. Once you're done, the app's widget should disappear by itself from your homescreen if you had added it there. //

RIP, Google Play Music (2011-2020)

Google Play Music users can now easily transition their account over to YouTube Music with just one click. Once you’ve completed the transfer, you can use either app to continue your listening experience, or switch over to just YouTube Music. 

Here’s what we'll include in the transfer:

Your Google Play Music library, which includes:
Your uploaded & purchased songs
Your playlists & many stations
Albums & songs in your library
Your likes and dislikes (songs you’ve given a thumbs up or down)
Your billing information for your subscription if you’re a current Google Play Music subscriber
We will convert your Google Play Music subscription to the equivalent tier of YouTube Music Premium or YouTube Premium (based on the level of benefits with your current subscription). Your monthly billing price and benefits will remain the same unless you are in a location with fluctuating currency.*
We’ll also update your music profile so that you get personalized recommendations in YouTube Music based on your Google Play Music listening history, likes, and dislikes.

He confirmed to the undercover journalist that he’s trained Chinese workers in China to do this for several companies, including Google and FitBit. Okay, that — right there — gives me the creeps.

And though Lakhkar appears to not hold to a specific, political view, his words don’t leave any room for interpretation, when he says Google “is the worst” company he’s ever worked for, “when it comes to, like, following the leftist agenda… Your opinion matters more than your work.”

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oracle v. Google, a landmark case that considers whether application-programming interfaces can be protected by copyright. We first published this article about the case in early 2019, when Google asked the Supreme Court to consider the case. It has been edited to reflect the fact that oral arguments are this week.

Whether you’ve outgrown your college era email address and you want a professional one, or you want to change your firstname.maiden account to firstname.marriedname one, we’ve got you covered with a start-to-finish Google migration guide.

Whether you finally decided to shed sassyhacker957@gmail.com for a more professional handle or you want to swap Google accounts for less embarrassing reasons, Google doesn't have a built-in system for migrating your data to a new account. So we figured it out.

When Oracle sued Google over Android, many assumed the database giant would target code Google lifted from the Apache Foundation's open source Java incarnation, Project Harmony. But Oracle just pinpointed six pages of Google code, claiming they were "directly copied" from copyrighted Oracle material, and according to Apache, this code is not part of Harmony.

"Recent reports on various blogs have attributed to the ASF a number of the source files identified by Oracle as ones that they believe infringe on their copyrights," the Foundation says in a Friday blog post. "Even though the code in question has an Apache license, it is not part of Harmony."

Lawyers defending Google (NSDQ: GOOG) against a patent and copyright lawsuit brought by Oracle are trying desperately to keep a particular engineer’s e-mail out of the public eye-but it looks like they’re unlikely to succeed.

The e-mail, from Google engineer Tim Lindholm to the head of Google’s Android division, Andy Rubin, recommends that Google negotiate for a license to Java rather than pick an alternative system.

The key portion of the email was read aloud from the bench by U.S. District Judge William Alsup during a July 21 hearing. The second paragraph of the email reads: “What we’ve actually been asked to do by Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] is to investigate what technical alternatives exist to Java for Android and Chrome. We’ve been over a bunch of these and think they all suck. We conclude that we need to negotiate a license for Java under the terms we need.” //

Now Google is taking action to have that email, and Alsup’s reference to it in his order, thrown out of the public record. In a letter dated July 28, Van Nest wrote to Alsup, explaining that Google had handed over the email (which was actually a draft) inadvertently, and then later realized the email was subject to attorney-client privilege and never should have been disclosed. Oracle’s disclosure of the document was “improper,” argued Van Nest, and the email never should have been made public.

Start or stop sharing with your family

To let others use your Google One storage space, try Google One family sharing. All members of a Google One family plan see how much shared storage they use. Your files aren't shared with the rest of your family and can't be viewed without your permission.
How family sharing works with Google One

The person who shares their storage is called the Google One plan manager. This person can start or stop sharing their Google One family plan at any time. You can share Google One with up to 5 family members.

Your account, alanjshea@gmail.com, is the manager of a family on Google. Learn how to manage your family on Google.

There are two kinds of storage space: personal storage space and shared storage space.

Each member of the family group gets 15gb of personal storage space for their files. A family member’s files fill up his or her personal space first.
There is also shared storage that's split between everyone in your family group. After a family member's personal storage gets filled up, their files count toward the shared storage space. Family members can use as much of this available storage as they want.
Your files won’t be shown to others in your family unless you share them directly.
When you make a family group, extra benefits are shown to everyone in your family, except accounts managed by parents. Some benefits go to the first family member who claims them.

Redirect incoming messages to another email address

You add an alias to an email address to map incoming messages from one address to another. For example, you might have an employee leave your organization, but you still need to make sure that you don’t miss any messages from your customers. These mappings are similar to a virtual user table. You don’t need to create individual routing settings for each address mapping—just add an alias to the email address that you want to redirect.

Having multiple Google accounts isn’t uncommon. And Google is also making it easy to manage multiple accounts, like making account switching a one-click process. However, Google doesn’t offer a straightforward way to transfer Google Photos to another Google account.

Recently, I wanted to backup all my Google Photos data to another Google account as an extra security measure. To my surprise, there is no built-in option to move Google Photos to another account, unlike Gmail emails. And downloading all the data and uploading it to the secondary account is just too much of a hassle.

After some experiments, I found a trick to use the new Shared Libraries feature of Google Photos to transfer Google Photos data to another account. Although this feature is created to sync your Google Photos account with your significant other, but it can also be used to migrate data between your own accounts.

In this post, I’ll get you through the complete process to transfer Google Photos data to another Google account using the Shared Libraries feature.

To use Thunderbird to access your Gmail account, Google will tell you that you must allow “Insecure apps” in your Google security settings. However, since version 38, Thunderbird has supported Oauth2 with Gmail, so you don’t have to enable “Insecure apps”. Google just doesn’t tell you that.

Here I will show you how to change the authentication method on existing accounts from using a saved password, to using a key, namely Oauth2. It allows controlled access for an app, to a set of features that you allow. In this case it will be for just your emails, not your entire Google account like it does now.

In Thunderbird, go to Account Settings in the menu. Under the Gmail account that you want to enable Oauth2 for, go to Server Settings. Select Oauth2 from the drop down menu next to Authentication method.

Do the same for sending mail, by going to the Outgoing Server on the left side, selecting the Gmail account, and selecting Oauth2 from the drop down menu next to Authentication method.

Save the changes by hitting Ok.

Now that we’ve made the changes, we need to removed the saved passwords. Otherwise Thunderbird may keep on trying to use the old passwords. Go to your saved passwords at Preferences > Security > Saved Passwords.Next, restart Thunderbird.

When Thunderbird starts back up, it will show you a prompt for your password. This is actually a web portal that is asking for your user name and password to log in, so you can grant access to Thunderbird.

Go ahead and log in.

Once you have logged in, Google will ask for your permission to allow Thunderbird to access your emails.

Click “Allow” (otherwise this will have all been for nothing…)

And you’re done! Doing this once will enable both the incoming and outgoing emails to work.

Turn off “Allow insecure apps”

If Thunderbird was the only application that was logging in with your password, you should be able to go into your Google account security settings and change “Allow Insecure Apps” to off.

First, note the following:

• You can move multiple files at once.
• Unless you are an administrator, you can’t move folders from My Drive into a shared drive, but you can create new folders in a shared drive. For details about moving folders as an admin, see Migrate content to a shared drive.
• Anyone you directly shared a file with retains access, unless your shared drive doesn’t allow non-members.
• People who had access to the file from a folder that's been shared don’t retain access once you move a file. If you want these people to keep access, update your permissions after moving your files to a shared drive.
• When you move a file to a shared drive, the team becomes the owner of the file.

To move files from My Drive into a shared drive or between shared drives, drag the files into the destination shared drive. To move folders,
contact your G Suite admin.

Move files from My Drive to a shared drive:

You can move any file you own into a shared drive, whether it’s from another Drive location or from your computer or mobile device.

If you’re not the owner of a file in My Drive, but you have at least Edit access to the file, you might be able to move that file into a shared drive, if:

• Your G Suite admin has enabled this option.
• The file’s owner is a member of the shared drive where you want to move the file.

Otherwise, you need to ask the owner to move the file into the shared drive.

Move content to a shared drive

As an administrator, you can let file editors in your organization move content from My Drive or shared drives to other shared drives.

Note: If you move content between shared drives and other folders, be aware that moving them could give people access to information that they shouldn't have, such as privileged information. Be especially careful if you’re sharing items outside of your organization.

It’s been almost two years since YouTube Music launched as a full-fledged, paid competitor to Spotify and Apple Music. But even though Google positioned it as a replacement for its own Google Play Music service and something that could take on other major options in the music streaming space, it certainly wasn’t feature-complete at launch. But development accelerated significantly over the last year or so, and YouTube Music has fixed just about all the problems I identified in 2018.

But one thing that hasn’t been clear is how the faithful Google Play Music users out there could bring their collections and history over to YouTube Music. Finally, there’s an answer in the form of a comprehensive transition tool that is rolling out widely starting today. And the good news is that it brings over just about every bit of music and data you may have collected in Google Play Music over the years.

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“Congressman Kelly Armstrong really got out of Google an admission that they’re not just interested in controlling all of the ad space as they do right now. They’re interested in driving others out of the ad market so that they have total control to demonetize sites as they deem fit,” Domenech said.

Last week, Newsbusters reported a number of conservative sites were temporarily blacklisted from Google’s search engine results, including the Washington Free Beacon, The Blaze, Townhall, The Daily Wire, PragerU, LifeNews, Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, The Resurgent, Breitbart, the Media Research Center, and CNSNews, among others.

Domenech said this is not just anecdotal, but there is data and traffic numbers to confirm that “from the outside, this looks like it was someone inside turning a knob, pulling a switch, that prevented these sites from having any kind of the organic traffic that they had already earned.”

Domenech noted that this move by Google “absolutely represents an attempt to influence the conversation during an election.”

Google appeared to test its ability to blacklist conservative media Tuesday from its monopolized search engine which dominates 94 percent of internet searches.