The German government’s demand that social media giants Google, Facebook and Twitter remove what it calls anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ is having its first real test in the wake of the sickening sex attacks in Cologne over New Year’s Eve. Breitbart London first
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Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, has backed a “hate-speech spell-checker” that would nudge ordinary web users away from unwelcome forms of expression on social media.
In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, there has been increased pressure on social media companies to take down Islamist material to interfere with their recruiting efforts, but the companies are also worried about allegations of censorship.
Wall Street began to wake up to the “deep-value” Yahoo! play that Breitbart News has been reporting, with a 10 percent jump in the stock price to over $36 on December 2.
Uber’s poaching spree continues as the multibillion-dollar company has snatched away a second executive from Google Maps, Manik Gupta.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an official complaint with the Federal Trade Commission accusing Google of collecting personal information about children.
Mercedes-Benz research and development lab in Sunnyvale, California is racing to beat Apple, Google and Uber to dominate commercial and luxury self-driving vehicles. Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Volkswagen and four other developers of autonomous vehicles already have permission from
Google has censored hundreds of thousands of links to comply with European “right to be forgotten” regulations. A new transparency report reveals that the search giant has complied with 348,508 of the 1,235,473 URLs that users have requested be removed from search results.
The Teamsters Union, representing shuttle bus drivers for tech companies, have kicked up pay for drivers from $18 dollars an hour to $25 after signing contracts with Apple and other Silicon Valley companies, part of a “domino effect” to organize the tech sector.
The magazine Wired has published a document purported to be the operational security manual for the Islamic State: a 34-page PDF file uncovered by the Combating Terrorism Center at the West Point military academy, and somewhat loosely translated from Arabic.
Google activated its “Person Finder,” and Facebook activated its “Safety Check” tools on the evening of Friday, November 13, to let anxious users check the status of friends and family caught up in the Paris terrorist attacks.
On Thursday, a question was asked that had never been asked before in California: if a self-driving car is stopped by police for an infraction, who gets the ticket–the driver or the car?
(Ferenstein Wire)—Silicon Valley is coming after unionized industries. A top investor in the Valley, Paul Graham, lit up Twitter, tweeting, “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy that could be released by startups. (I don’t mean in simply paying people less, but rather that industries afflicted by unions are sclerotic so have left lots undone.)”
Ahead of the fourth GOP presidential primary debate, Politico is reporting the top Google searches about several GOP presidential candidates.
Alphabet is doubling down on investments by its subsidiary into artificial intelligence and leveraging a digitized cortex to manage its flagship service.
Law enforcement officers in south Texas made three arrests after a man inadvertently “butt-dialed” 911 and someone was heard talking to his friends about having warrants for his arrest. A police body cam video of the arrest posted on the police
In moves that just get weirder every day, Google–now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet–has revealed that it owns abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com.
The top Google searches in Syria reveal the extent and direction of planning being carried out by those looking to leave the country. The Google searches in Syria were given to journalists by the web search engine company. Some were exactly what
Talk about laugh. Margrethe Vestager is the European Union (EU) competition commissioner and one of its most powerful bureaucrats, currently pursuing Google for abusing its internet search dominance and Apple over an Irish tax deal. Both these giants of commerce are US-based and it
The FTC is apparently concerned that Google may be unfairly promoting its search engine on their popular Android mobile operating system.
Prime Minister Narenda Modi will visit the Bay Area this weekend, becoming the first Indian PM to visit the West Coast in over 30 years.
Following our report on Google Ideas’ bizarre decision to invite several online abusers to a discussion about preventing online abuse, the organisation’s employees have begun to distance themselves from some of the individuals mentioned in our article. Izzie Zahorian, a designer
It seems that Google Ideas, the Internet giant’s New York-based think-tank, isn’t very good at googling.
Ahmed Mohamed may next head out on a Mecca pilgrimage, says his father of the 14-year-old Texas high school freshman who got in trouble, and made national headlines, over an elaborate homemade suitcase clock that resembled a “hoax bomb.”
