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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

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

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

Google Is Censoring Search Results to Hide Russian Corruption

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

Kai-Fu Lee, a venture capitalist who used to develop AI for Google and Microsoft, predicts that AI will automate 40 percent of the world's jobs in 15 years.

Former Google Exec: AI Will Replace 40 Percent of Jobs in 15 Years

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

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 Google AI team has created an AI capable of identifying new speakers in audio clips even if it's never heard the speakers before.

Google’s New AI Can Recognize Voices It’s Never Heard Before

By Kristin Houser

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

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

Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine

Google Is Finally Ready to Talk About Its Chinese Search Engine

By Kristin Houser

Laws outlining China's expectations for tech companies in a Muslim-heavy region add to the morally questionable nature of Google's Project Dragonfly.

China Wants Google’s Help Persecuting Muslims. Google Appears Ready to Give It.

By Kristin Houser

Google announced it found a privacy bug that allowed third-party developers to access private user data seven months ago. And that's far too late.

Google Didn’t Report Its Data Leak Till Months Later. Now It’ll Face the Consequences.

By Victor Tangermann

Google withdrew itself from the running for the Pentagon's JEDI contract, but the reasons it gave for the move are worth questioning.

Google Won’t Bid on Pentagon Contract, but Not Just Because Employees Wanted It To

By Kristin Houser

Google DeepMind built the largest-scale generative adversarial network to date. The algorithm can make photorealistic pictures of burgers and dogs.

Google Used Its Most Sophisticated AI yet to Create Pictures of Burgers

By Dan Robitzski

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

The World of the Future Will Have Two Separate Internets, Former Google CEO Predicts

By Dan Robitzski

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems

Here’s Why Google Built an AI-Powered Lion Statue That Spits out Poems

By Jon Christian

Google’s New Search Engine Could Solve a Major Problem in the Scientific Community

Google’s New Search Engine Could Solve a Major Problem in the Scientific Community

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI that can predict the location of earthquake aftershocks far more accurately than the best available model.

Google’s AI Can Help Predict Where Earthquake Aftershocks Are Most Likely

By Kristin Houser

Google employees have once again sounded the ethics alarm over the company's actions, this time in reference to its planned Chinese search app.

Google Employees Have Become the Company’s Moral Compass

By Kristin Houser

An investigative report by the Associated Press reveals that turning off location tracking doesn't actually stop Google from recording your location.

Google May Still Be Tracking You, Even If You Opted Out

By Kristin Houser