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Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

John Martinis, a researcher largely credited for Google's success in quantum computers, left the company over philosophical differences with his team.

Some Serious Drama Went Down on Google’s Quantum Computing Team

By Dan Robitzski

Apple and Google are partnering on a coronavirus tracking app that can tell you if you've recently been exposed to somebody who has tested positive.

Apple and Google to Launch App for Tracking the Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

German artist Simon Weckert created his own personal traffic jam on Google Maps by loading 99 smartphones into a small cart and lugging them down a street.

Guy Causes Google Maps “Traffic Jams” By Carrying 99 Cell Phones

By Victor Tangermann

Google says a "technical issue" caused its Takeout service to send backups of users' videos to strangers in November 2019.

Google Accidentally Sent Users’ Private Videos to Strangers

By Kristin Houser

Google has unveiled a new chatbot named Meena, which it claims is capable of conversing on a level almost equal to humans.

Google Says Its Chatbot Is Capable of Near-Human Conversation

By Kristin Houser

Scientists at Google just published an incredibly-detailed 3D map of neural connections in the brain of a fruit fly, including 20 million synapses.

Google’s 3D Map of a Fruit Fly Brain Will Blow Your Mind

By Victor Tangermann

A team of UK researchers at Google Health and Google's AI lab DeepMind has created a tool that can successfully identify breast cancer in mammograms.

Google’s New AI is Great at Spotting Breast Cancer in X-Rays

By Victor Tangermann

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

Music website Genius is suing Google and its lyrics partner, LyricFind, for $50 million for allegedly copying lyrics directly from its site.

Genius Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Music Lyrics

By Kristin Houser

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.

Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

Google is secretly working with one of the biggest healthcare systems in the U.S. to collect personal medical records from millions of Americans.

Google Is Secretly Hoarding Your Medical Records

By Victor Tangermann

According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Google will start offering bank checking accounts to its Google Pay customers.

Google Is Going to Start Offering Bank Accounts

By Victor Tangermann

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.

Google Buys Fitbit, Promises Not to Use Health Data to Sell Ads

By Kristin Houser

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

It’s Official: Google Claims to Have Achieved Quantum Supremacy

By Victor Tangermann

Contractors hired to collect face scans for Google specifically targeted homeless black people and lied to them about the nature of the collection.

Google Contractors Tricked Homeless Black People Into Face Scans

By Kristin Houser

Google claims its quantum computer just completed a task in minutes. The same task would've taken a conventional computer 10,000 years.

Google Claims to Have Achieved “Quantum Supremacy”

By Victor Tangermann

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

By Kristin Houser

Former Googler Laura Nolan warns that the military should never use fully-autonomous weapons, lest they accidentally spark a war.

Former Google Engineer: Killer Bots Could Commit “Mass Atrocities”

By Dan Robitzski

Google has banned ads hawking unproven or experimental medical treatments and therapies, including many stem cell and gene therapies.

Google Finally Bans Dangerous Miracle Cure Ads

By Kristin Houser

In areas where access to abortion is limited, Google Maps sometimes directs people looking for clinics to anti-abortion facilities instead.

Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

By Dan Robitzski

Google security researchers have uncovered an extensive iPhone hacking effort that may have compromised thousands of users weekly for years.

Google Uncovers Massive, Multi-Year iPhone Hacking Effort

By Kristin Houser

Former Google manager Jennifer Blakely shared her story of how the company's Chief Legal Officer abandoned and abused her after they had a child.

Google Exec Accused of Fathering, Abandoning Baby With Employee

By Dan Robitzski

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

By Dan Robitzski

When journalist Carey Gillam investigated the link between Monsanto weedkillers and cancer, the company worked with Google to discredit her work.

Report: Monsanto Paid Google to Bury Unfavorable News

By Dan Robitzski

A decade after Google was caught wiretapping unencrypted WiFi networks with its Street View cars, a court ordered the stolen data deleted.

Google to Delete Private Data Captured by Street View Cars

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that tens of thousands of porn sites automatically monitor your, uh, behavior, and send the data to companies like Facebook and Google.

Facebook And Google Know All Your Kinks

By Dan Robitzski

Google has reportedly decided to halt plans for launching a censored search engine in China."We have terminated Project Dragonfly."

Google “Terminated” Its Chinese Search Engine Plans

By Victor Tangermann

During a speech at the National Conservatism conference, Peter Thiel called for the CIA and FBI to investigate Google's "seemingly treasonous" ties with China.

Peter Thiel: Investigate Google For “Treasonous” Ties With China

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced plans to build its third private undersea internet cable, expected to begin connecting Europe and Africa in 2021.

Google’s Next Subsea Internet Cable to Connect Africa and Europe

By Dan Robitzski

The lyrics database Genius embedded a hidden typography code into its lyrics to prove that Google was copying content directly from its site.

Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."

Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News

By Kristin Houser

A major auto manufacturing alliance has tapped Google to create the next generation of built-in media displays for its vehicles.

Google Thinks It Can Make Your Car’s Dashboard Not Suck

By Kristin Houser

A member of the quickly disbanded Google AI ethics board says lawmakers need to approach regulating the company like it's a "world power."

Professor: Lawmakers Must Treat Google Like A “World Power”

By Kristin Houser

Google co-founder Sergey Brin needs engineers to work on his massive $150 million blimp, which could deliver supplies on humanitarian missions.

Google’s Co-Founder Is Building a Gargantuan $150 Million Blimp

By Kristin Houser

Democrats in the House of Representatives formally launched an antitrust probe into Silicon Valley to determine whether Facebook and Google are monopolies.

Congress Is Deciding Whether to Break Up Facebook, Google

By Dan Robitzski

Google will ban any marijuana or THC products from being sold over apps available on its platform, likely in a bid to be more child-friendly.

Google Bans Weed Delivery Apps From Play Store

By Dan Robitzski

Google's multi-year, multi-million dollar research project into cold fusion reached a disheartening conclusion: there's no evidence the phenomenon exists.

Google’s $10 Million Cold Fusion Project Has Failed

By Kristin Houser

The New York Times reports that some 25 percent of Google's controversial AI-powered Duplex robo-callers actually turn out to be humans.

Many of Google Duplex’s “AI” Phone Calls Are Made By Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Google is working on a speech translation system that retains the original speaker's voice and cadence in the outputted audio.

Amazing Google AI Speaks Another Language In Your Voice

By Kristin Houser

Google is launching a series of gender-fluid emoji for its smartphones, the latest example of efforts to make the tiny symbols more inclusive.

Google Is Adding 53 Gender-Fluid Emoji to Its Smartphones

By Kristin Houser

Google announced its creepy auto-calling assistant feature a year ago. Since then, many restaurants are choosing to hang up instead.

Restaurants Are Ignoring Calls From Google’s Smart Assistant

By Victor Tangermann

Google Ventures has pumped money into Verve Therapeutics, a startup that wants to use CRISPR to create a "one-and-done" therapy for heart disease.

Google Backs Plan to Use CRISPR to Cure Heart Disease

By Kristin Houser

Ex-Googler: Company Has “Voodoo Doll, Avatar-Like Version of You”

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses Google's AI to churn out poetic couplets. The results are sometimes nonsensical, but occasionally prescient.

We Used Google’s New AI to Generate Angsty Poetry About the Future

By Dan Robitzski

Google employees have announced a sit-in to protest what they believe were retaliatory acts by the company following a November walkout.

Google Employees Plan Sit-in to Protest “Culture of Retaliation”

By Kristin Houser

The YouTube account using Google's AI research to make synthesize videos of Trump singing is back, this time with "Sweet Dreams."

Watch Google’s AI Make Trump Sing Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams”

By Dan Robitzski

$Google's Deepmind just pitted its math-solving AI system against a 16-year-old's math exam. The exam won, and it wasn't that close.$

Google’s Best AI Just Flunked a High School Math Test

By Dan Robitzski

Following a week of protests over the company's controversial nominations, Google decided to cancel its new ethics board.

Google Started an Ethics Board and Then Killed It After Protests

By Dan Robitzski

As Google's new advisory council for artificial intelligence development prepares to convene for the first time, one member has a dire warning.

Google Ethics Adviser: Controlling Future AI is “Wishful Thinking”

By Dan Robitzski

Google has once again revitalized its robotics program, focusing on simple machines powered by powerful AI instead of humanoid robots.

Google’s Revived Robotics Department Prioritizes Powerful AI

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Defense has deemed that all 5,000 pages of documents on Google's work to build AI for military drones is too sensitive to release.

The Pentagon is Hiding Info About Google’s Work on Military Drones

By Dan Robitzski

On March 15, Google converted currencies to Ghana's Cedi at one-fourth of its actual value. This is the third country to be hit by the glitch this year.

Google Glitch Wrongly Claimed That Ghana’s Economy Collapsed

By Dan Robitzski

Google has a history of absorbing DeepMind's AI technology into its own projects. To protect the goldmine of AGI, DeepMind has safeguards in place.

There’s a Power Struggle Inside Google to Control Superhuman AI

By Dan Robitzski

Google has released a new app called Lookout that describes objects and reads text or currency for people with visual impairments.

New Google App Describes Objects to Blind People

By Kristin Houser

Google parent company Alphabet is preparing to launch what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation says is the first commercial drone delivery service.

Residents Are Furious About Google’s Drone Delivery Service

By Jon Christian

Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced a bold plan today to break up tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

Elizabeth Warren Shares Plan to Break up Facebook, Google, Amazon

By Jon Christian

A group of Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, a controversial project to build a search engine in China.

Google Is Still Working on Chinese Search Engine, Say Employees

By Kristin Houser

The European Commission just published a report saying that Facebook, Google, and Twitter have all been too lax on their pledge to fight fake news.

EU: Facebook, Google, Twitter Failed to Fight Fake News

By Dan Robitzski