SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal immigration officials said Friday they were deporting a California prostitute to Canada after she completed a jail sentence for involuntary manslaughter for giving a fatal heroin shot to a Google executive she had been entertaining aboard his yacht.
The CEO of WPP, the largest advertising company in the world, told CNBC that companies are looking for other platforms to place their advertising online beyond the “duopoly” of Facebook and Google. “What our clients want, and indeed what the
YouTube videos will now have to reach at least 10,000 views before the creators earn any advertisement revenue, according to a new blog post from the company.
In an effort to combat “fake news,” Google has launched a new feature on their search engine titled “Fact Check” which adds a label to certain links indicating whether they have been confirmed by partisan fact-checkers Snopes and Politifact.
With the introduction of Google’s new Tensor Processing Unit, the company has been saved from building twice as many data centers as they currently operate.
Amazon is finally ready to take some measure of responsibility for charging customers’ credit cards for their children’s purchases without their consent.
Google is training its advanced computer systems to be offended over potentially distasteful advert placements, according to a report by The New York Times.
Following a report by The Times that big brand advertisements were appearing alongside extremist content online, News Corp CEO Robert Thomson spoke out against algorithms and online censorship. Speaking at the Asia society in Hong Kong, News Corp CEO Robert
Ten additional plaintiffs have joined a federal lawsuit on behalf of the Pulse nightclub shooting victims, claiming that Twitter, Google, and Facebook allowed their platforms to be used to radicalize the nightclub shooter.
In a meeting with Amber Rudd, the British Home Secretary, tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft promised to crack down on terrorist content being accessible on the internet after the Westminster attacker, Khalid Massood, reportedly found tips as to how to orchestrate such an attack online.
The CEO of advertising giant WPP, Martin Sorrel, declared advertisers boycotting YouTube for hosting extremist content “doesn’t make sense,” but that Google and Facebook need to “step up” their fight against the inappropriate content on their platform. Speaking to CNBC,
According to analysts from Nomura Instinet, Google could potentially lose $750 million or more as a result of the advertising boycott that it is currently facing for allowing advertisements to appear on extremist videos.
Google’s parent company Alphabet lost around $20 billion in value last week, due to a 2% drop in its share prices as a result of a coordinated advertising boycott by big companies worried about their advertising being placed next to inappropriate content.
Uber has suspended its multi-state testing program for autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving Volvos flipped up on its side after an accident.
Social media platforms spewed more than 382,000 anti-Semitic posts over the course of 2016 – an average of more than 43.6 posts per hour, or one post every 83 seconds, according to research by the World Jewish Congress (WJC). Sixty-three percent of all the anti-Semitic content found a megaphone on Twitter.
Sky News reports on data from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization (ICSR) that shows a remarkable decline in the volume of online ISIS propaganda in concert with the recapture of territory from the Islamic State, particularly in Iraq.
A report from mobile defense specialists Skycure has identified that 71 percent of Android users have security patches that are at least two months out of date, leaving them at risk of data breaches and malware.
A group of major U.S. advertisers, including AT&T, Verizon, and Johnson & Johnson have withdrawn their advertising from Google, despite the company’s pledge to crackdown on “offensive” and “extremist” content.
The Solicitor General for England and Wales, Robert Buckland, has claimed that Google may be in breach of the Terrorism Act for failing to take down material from proscribed extremist organizations.
Google has pledged to crack down on “offensive” and “hateful” content, after numerous companies withdrew advertisements from YouTube, citing their appearance next to “extremist” videos.
NEW YORK (AP) — An organization affiliated with Google is offering tools that news organizations and election-related sites can use to protect themselves from hacking.
Google has vowed to fight a search warrant put forward by a Minnesota judge to collect information on anyone who Googled the name of an identity theft victim.
Google’s European boss has announced a policy change along with apologizing for allowing advertisements on Google and YouTube to appear next to extremist material. Multiple organizations, including the UK government, have already pulled their advertisements for fear of damaging their brands and contributing to the funding of groups whose videos their advertisements appeared next to.
WikiLeaks has reached out to tech companies including Apple, Google, and Microsoft to assist them in patching the zero-day exploits revealed in the CIA Vault 7 leaks, but are insisting that their demands are met before they provide further information.
Users began to notice that content which was based around homosexuality or LGBT issues was not appearing under certain searches.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Spotify, and Uber are missing from a group of 58 tech companies now signed onto an amicus brief protesting President Donald Trump’s travel delay executive order on immigration.
E-commerce giant Amazon announced on Thursday that their virtual assistant, Alexa would soon be available on smartphones, directly competing with Apple and Google’s own virtual assistants.
The British Government has pulled all advertising from YouTube over concerns that their adverts were appearing on “inappropriate” videos. The BBC, the Guardian and Channel 4 also backed out of YouTube advertising over similar worries. The Cabinet Office said that
Google is now directing its review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive in search results.
Google Director of Engineering and prominent futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that human-computer hybrids will be stronger, wittier, and more attractive.
Top executives from the UK arms of Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday and were grilled about an apparent failure to tackle ‘hate speech’ on their platforms. The committee directed most
Google subsidiary DeepMind Technologies Limited, in partnership with researchers from Imperial College London, have developed a functional long-term memory for the DeepMind AI. The London-based company has taken a major step beyond the already impressive milestones they have achieved in machine
Google has discontinued its use of the traditional CAPTCHA verification feature.
Google’s household personal assistant, Google Home, has been accused of spreading fake news as the device reads conspiracy theories and lies when questioned on certain topics.
Google announced on Tuesday the launch of the new YouTube TV service: a so-called “skinny bundle” that lets you stream select cable TV channels on any device at a much cheaper price than regular cable television providers.
Google has pledged $11.5 million to combat “racial bias” and “disparities” in the criminal justice system, according to USA Today.
Perspective is a new A.I from Google designed to “improve” your conversations online. Are you ready to be “improved?”
Google and Facebook will be working with the mainstream media to tell voters “what and who to trust”, including “memes, comment threads and news sites”, in the lead up to the French elections.
The MIT Technology Review recently published an article demonstrating that Google’s new comment detection system, Perspective, seems to have difficulty differentiating offensive words or controversial subjects from actual hate speech.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A self-driving car company founded by Google is colliding with ride-haling service Uber in a court battle revolving around allegations of betrayal, high-tech espionage and greed.
