Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it. Last year you may have been addicted to Beyoncé. But nowadays you’re more into Lizzo. You also once went through a phase of being obsessed with houseplants, …
The big five technology firms have spent billions buying rivals in recent years ON JULY 16th America’s House Judiciary Committee will summon representatives from four of the five big tech firms for a hearing entitled “Online Platforms and Market Power: Part 2”. The question at hand is whether the big …
They’ll include at least 5,000 affordable housing units. Google says it’ll invest in thousands of new homes in the Bay Area over the next decade, in the hopes of helping many of its employees and other residents find an affordable place to live in one of the planet’s most expensive regions. …
Google has cut phone maker Huawei off from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese firm. New Huawei smartphones will also lose access to popular Google apps. The move comes after the Trump administration added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms …
The justices’ response to a class-action lawsuit against Google is a step toward making regulation more difficult. European regulators are cracking down on the big technology companies — witness the 1.49 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine against Google on Wednesday. At the same time, however, the U.S. Supreme Court is cautiously entering …
Cancel your children’s Spanish lessons. Put down your phrasebook. Free up the last of your grey matter that knows how to conjugate etre. Google has rendered it all obsolete. This week, the company unveiled an “interpreter mode” for its smart speakers, which can translate 27 languages in real time. The concept is …
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women. The employees are demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations are dealt with at the firm, including a call to end forced arbitration – a move …
Last month, at Google’s 20th anniversary event, the company’s head of search quickly shut down my question about the firm’s ambitions in China. We’d heard, thanks to a slew of credible leaks, that the firm was developing a search engine for the country, one that would toe Beijing’s line on …
I used to trust some of its products, like Chrome. I increasingly don’t. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed something strange was happening to my Google Chrome web browser. Where Chrome had always allowed me to browse the internet as an anonymous user, suddenly my browser had signed itself …
IF, LIKE MOST people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you were wrong. According to an AP investigation published Monday, even if you disable Location History, the search giant still tracks you every time you open Google Maps, get certain automatic weather …
GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a …
Google has confirmed that private emails sent and received by Gmail users can sometimes be read by third-party app developers, not just machines. People who have connected third-party apps to their accounts may have unwittingly given human staff permission to read their messages. One company told the Wall Street Journal that the …
