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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

A state-owned communications watchdog in Russia claims that Google, Facebook, and YouTube interfered with a local election by allowing political ads.

Russia Accuses Facebook of Meddling In Its Election. Seriously.

By Victor Tangermann

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

Science & Energy

Google Is Still Misleading People Trying to Find Abortion Clinics

By Dan Robitzski

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

Security researchers found eight different vulnerabilities in Nest Camera cybersecurity. Google promised a fix, but other cameras have the same problems.

Robots and Machines

There Are at Least Eight Ways to Hack a Nest Camera

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

Facebook's former head of security wants to build an "internet observatory" to monitor harassment. The idea is to build out the tool for academics to use.

Stanford Built an “Internet Observatory” to Monitor Abuse

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.

Science & Energy

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

The YouTube search bar frequently autocompletes queries with major movie and TV spoilers — yet another example of the site's content moderation struggles.

YouTube’s Autocomplete Feature Has a Huge Spoiler Problem

By Jon Christian

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.

Science & Energy

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

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

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

Science & Energy

Genius Used a Typography Trick to Bust Google For Stealing Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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

Health-focused apps can sell sensitive personal information to whomever they please, and a new study shows that many do so without telling users.

Health & Medicine

Apps to Help Quit Smoking Are Selling Your Data

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

In order to better understand how smartphone use correlates with mental health in adolescents, scientists want to access Google and Apple's data stashes.

Google and Apple Can Help Learn How Phones Affect Kids’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, Google inadvertently revealed that its home security device, Nest, contained a secret microphone. Now it says secrecy was a "mistake."

Google: Secret Nest Microphone “Never Intended to Be a Secret”

By Dan Robitzski

Google is letting a select few users test out a new AR navigation feature for its Maps app, providing a glimpse of the future of navigation.

Google Is Rolling out AR Navigation for Its Maps App

By Kristin Houser

According to a prominent think tank's new report, the Chinese military is adopting artificial intelligence tech as quickly as it can.

China Thinks AI Could Make Its Military As Powerful as America’s

By Dan Robitzski

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

By Dan Robitzski

Oregon Senator Ron Ryden introduced a new cybersecurity bill that would let the FTC impose and enforce strict cybersecurity standards for tech companies.

New Bill Would Let FTC Jail Execs For Data Breaches

By Dan Robitzski

"The NYPD will pursue all legal remedies to prevent the continued posting of this irresponsible and dangerous information."

NYPD Demands That Google Stop Flagging DWI Checkpoints on Waze

By Dan Robitzski

Google Brain Built a Translator so AI Can Explain Itself

Google Brain Built a Translator so AI Can Explain Itself

By Dan Robitzski

At CES 2019, Google debuted its Assistant's new Interpreter Mode, which translates conversations in 27 language in real-time.

Google Assistant Can Now Translate 27 Languages in Real-Time

By Kristin Houser

With FCC permission and Facebook stepping aside, Google is now allowed to develop more powerful radar tech for gesture-detecting wearables.

FCC Clears Google To Pursue “Minority Report”-Like Gesture System

By Dan Robitzski

Google won a key Illinois lawsuit that has long been a barrier to big tech companies' use of facial recognition software.

Google Wins Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Technology

In a hearing in front of a House Committee, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google had "no plans" to launch a search product in China.

Google CEO: “No Plans” To Launch Censored Chinese Search Engine

By Victor Tangermann

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

By Dan Robitzski

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

By Dan Robitzski

Google engineers trained a neural net on thousands of song lyrics and classic novels. It wrote some songs and we think they're fantastic.

Google Trained a Neural Net to Write Cringey Song Lyrics

By Dan Robitzski

After a sale to SoftBank fell apart, Alphabet is beginning to dissolve Schaft, the company it purchased to develop bipedal robots.

Alphabet Cancels Walking Robot Project After Internal Turmoil

By Dan Robitzski

Google Is Making An “AI-Powered Assistant for Nurses and Doctors”

Google Is Making An “AI-Powered Assistant for Nurses and Doctors”

By Kristin Houser

A recent poll, admittedly one with little scientific rigor, found that many people in tech sector think their companies are doing beneficial work.

Some Big Tech Employees Fear The Future They’re Creating

By Dan Robitzski

Google just announced a $25 million contest that asks people to develop AI systems that actually benefit society for a change.

Google Wants You to Build AI That Benefits Society

By Dan Robitzski

Glimpse: Truly Useful Augmented Reality is Coming. We’re Not Ready.

Virtual Reality

Glimpse: Truly Useful Augmented Reality is Coming. We’re Not Ready.

Big Tech Splits Over Privacy Issues, at Least on the Surface.

By Dan Robitzski

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

Google Adds AI Fairness Lessons to Its Machine Learning Crash Course

By Kristin Houser