October 26, 2017 Google is recording everything you say to a bot – right now I made this discovery by accident.
October 20, 2017 Google parent Alphabet turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico Google's parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria.
October 20, 2017 Google's artificial intelligence computer 'no longer constrained by limits of human knowledge' The computer that stunned humanity by beating the best mortal players at a strategy board game requiring “intuition” has become even smarter, its creators claim.
October 19, 2017 YouTube star Casey Neistat slams video sharing site's ad strategy YouTube star Casey Neistat has slammed the video sharing site’s ad strategy, saying that the platform’s content creators are suffering.
October 19, 2017 Fake news ads are reportedly popping up on fact-checking websites The New York Times reported that as recent as last week, these ads were found on sites like PolitiFact and Snopes.
October 13, 2017 'The sins of Silicon Valley': Backlash mounts against Google, Facebook, Amazon The populist backlash against the tone-deaf and arguably reprehensible actions of certain players in Silicon Valley has increased in recent months. A new essay in Silicon Valley suggests that despite the benefits companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon provide to consumers, the costs are starting to outweigh the benefits.
October 12, 2017 Facebook, Google, Twitter sued by family of American killed in Nice terror attack The complaint, filed in the northern district of California, argues that the three Silicon Valley-based companies “have knowingly and recklessly provided the terrorist group ISIS with accounts to use its social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds, and attracting new recruits.”
October 10, 2017 Google balloons set to bring internet to Puerto Rico Despite the best efforts of cell companies, the vast majority of Puerto Rico is offline.
October 5, 2017 Google exec discusses new Pixel devices, privacy, artificial intelligence and more Google has stepped up the competition between itself and Apple and Amazon for consumers' hard-earned dollars, launching several new products, including the Pixel XL 2. While the products generally have similar features, the search giant is trying to use artificial intelligence as its hook.
October 5, 2017 Fake news is here to stay, study says Fake information will pervade “mature economies” in the next few years, a new study says.