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EU court upholds antitrust ruling against Google, trims fine to $4.12 billion

Editorial Bureau September 14, 2022

The dispute between Google and the EU courts is over whether it uses the Android operating system to quash competition, and was initiated against the company in 2015. The court said it “largely confirms the European Commission’s decision that Google imposed unlawful restrictions on

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As Amazon grows, so does its eye on consumers

Editorial Bureau August 23, 2022

From what you buy online to how you remember tasks to when you monitor your doorstep, Amazon is seemingly everywhere. And it appears the company doesn’t want to halt its reach anytime soon. In recent weeks, Amazon has said it will spend billions of dollars on two gigantic acquisitions that, if approved, will broaden its […]

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EXCLUSIVE Google Fiber plans 5-state growth spurt, biggest since 2015

Editorial Bureau August 10, 2022

Google Fiber plans to bring its high-speed internet service to multiple cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska and Nevada over the next several years in its first big expansion since it spun out as an independent Alphabet Inc unit in 2015. In his first media interview since becoming chief executive of Google Fiber in February […]

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Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient

Editorial Bureau June 24, 2022

Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees. We all have seen a man who develops a relationship with an artificially intelligent virtual assistant personified through a female voice in the movie “Her”, Now Google software engineer Blake Lemoine says one of Google’s latest projects, an

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Australian court makes Google pay $515,000 for defamation

Editorial Bureau June 6, 2022

Canberra(Australia)- An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos. John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found

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Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance?

Editorial Bureau May 12, 2022

LIMA, Peru — About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was long all but impossible. That changed on Wednesday, when Google added Quechua and a variety of other languages to its digital translation service. The internet giant […]

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Google adopts an Apple-like approach for its Pixel products

Editorial Bureau May 12, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — Google on Wednesday took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices. The latest additions to its six-year-old Pixel brand will include Google’s first smartwatch that draws upon the features and expertise it has gained from last year’s $2.1 […]

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Google adds ways to keep personal info private in searches

Editorial Bureau April 30, 2022

Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches. The company said Friday it will let people request that more types of content such as personal contact information like phone numbers, email and physical addresses be removed from search results. The new policy also allows the removal of other information that may […]

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Black former employees sue Google for racial discrimination

Editorial Bureau March 23, 2022

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Google this week claiming there has been a pattern of racial discrimination toward minority employees. “Former Google employees came for their dream job that turned into a nightmare because of bigoted, discriminatory, racist culture that exists within Google,” Crump said at a press conference

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Beefing up security, Google buys Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Editorial Bureau March 9, 2022

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Google is fortifying its cloud services with a $5.4 billion acquisition of the cyber security firm Mandiant, the companies announced Tuesday. The acquisition is the first of many that analysts foresee in the cyber security sector following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Analysts and government officials have said they expect a wave […]