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Google has started working with GN Hearing to develop a new open specification that allows hearing aids to stream audio from Android phones. The specification is called Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA). Users of the ReSound LiNX Quattro and Beltone Amaze hearing aids will be able to take advantage of this feature when a future Android update arrives. Around 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization. This new feature will certainly alleviate some accessibility problems people with hearing aids have. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Hearing aid support is coming to Android" and "The day Google broke the Web".