Electricity Can’t Hold Candle to Artificial Intelligence in Significance: Alphabet CEO January 28, 2020 By Amy Thomson and Stephanie Bodoni Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI...
Google Faces $3.9B iPhone Privacy Lawsuit After London Court Reinstates Case October 3, 2019 By Jonathan Browning and Ellen Milligan A U.K. lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data-collection claims was given the go-ahead by London...
Former Google Engineer Charged in Uber Autonomous Theft Case August 29, 2019 By Michael Liedtke A former Google engineer was charged Tuesday with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before he joined Uber’s...
EU’s New Copyright Rules Could Hurt Google, Facebook April 15, 2019 By Foo Yun Chee Google will have to pay publishers for news snippets and Facebook filter out protected content under new copyright rules aimed...
Google Will Require Contractors to Offer Benefits, Minimum Wage April 5, 2019 Google says it will require staffing companies it works with to pay workers at least $15 an hour and give...
How Big Tech Is Using Artificial Intelligence to Stop Hackers January 3, 2019 By Dina Bass Last year, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One...
How Big Tech Flirted with Insurance in 2018 January 2, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson The almost weekly headlines about insurers and venture capitalists investing in insurtechs and tech-savvy insurance startups sometimes blocked the view...
After 20K Employees Protest, Google Searches for New Harassment Policies November 9, 2018 By Arjun Panchadar and Paresh Dave Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Thursday it would change the way it handles sexual harassment claims, a week after 20,000...
UK Privacy Lawsuit Filed Against Google by IPhone Users Is Dismissed October 8, 2018 By Jonathan Browning A U.K. lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data-collection claims was thrown out by a London...
Google Partners with Indian Banks to Attract Users to Its Digital Payments Services August 29, 2018 By Sankalp Phartiyal Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it is partnering with a handful of Indian banks to bring quick loans to...