Google has a habit of inviting regulatory scrutiny on both privacy and antitrust fronts, so why not both at once? On Friday, the U.K.’s competition watchdog opened a formal investigation into Google over supposedly pro-privacy changes the company is making to its market-leading Chrome browser. The government group said it will review whether the proposed […]
Shares of South Korean automaker Hyundai soared on Friday after a company representative said the carmaker was in preliminary talks with Apple on a partnership to produce an electric car. Hyudai’s stock rose as much as 20%—adding $8 billion to the company’s market value-—the biggest one day jump since 1988. But, within hours, the company […]
Enlarge / Amazon Photos offers a desktop PC app, seen here, as well as mobile and browser-based apps. (credit: Jim Salter) In November 2020, Google killed off its long-standing offer of free, unlimited high-resolution photo storage to anyone with a Gmail account. The new restrictions on Google Photos make a lesser-known competitor, Amazon Photos, suddenly of […]
Thanks to the double whammy of holiday feasting and pandemic-related pounds, New Year’s resolutions to get into shape were extra-big going into 2021. So that means it’s time for strapping on the shiny new Fitbits, Garmins, and Apple Watches that loved ones exchanged in December. But in recent years, wearable manufacturers have been pushing devices […]
Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos) More than 225 workers at Google have formally launched a companywide union membership drive, following an increasing drive toward organization inside the company over the past several years. All 120,000 people […]
Employees of Google and parent company Alphabet Inc. announced the creation of a union on Monday, escalating years of confrontation between workers and management of the Internet giant. The Alphabet Workers Union said it will be open to all employees and contractors, regardless of their role or classification. It will collect dues, pay organizing staff, […]
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The very first key conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The sport has a shocking number of potential combinations, however, it had been relatively tractable as it was organised by means of a set of rules that are clear. An algorithm can always have great understanding of the condition of this game and understand each […]
London A.I. firm DeepMind has released new information concerning an algorithm which could learn how to play games in superhuman levels–even if it does not begin knowing the principles of this sport, an accomplishment that the company claims is a major step toward producing A.I. systems which could deal with complex and uncertain real world […]
Expand / Signage Before a building in the Google campus in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (charge: David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images) Over three dozen state attorneys general a week filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the technology behemoth of a ton of anticompetitive behaviours. One of those […]