Milo Tosser is a satirical video game that allows you to score points by throwing Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos off a rooftop. The game is intended to mock the Islamic State’s barbaric attitudes towards gay people. Google finds this objectionable.
The rise of Donald Trump and his “America First” platform is pushing tech CEOs even closer to the Democrat establishment, after two decades of Silicon Valley moguls being able to outsource millions of manufacturing jobs and still get huge government contracts.
A hidden feature buried deep in the architecture of both Apple and Android phones is secretly keeping a record of every place you visit.
The big push for self-driving cars is well and truly under way, as engineers assure us the technology is rapidly becoming practical. Bloomberg Technology reports that a new coalition to advocate self-driving cars includes Google, Ford Motor Company, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo.
The Solar Impulse 2 flew from Hawaii’s Kalaeloa Airport to Google-controlled Moffett Airfield in 62 hours this week, providing proof-of-concept that a solar-powered drones will soon be bringing 5G wireless communications to the world without a drop of fossil fuel.
The UK Daily Mail reports on the remarkably close relationship between Google and the White House.
the FCC wants to unlock the “set-top box” that brings cable television into your home, so you won’t have to rent those boxes from the cable companies any more.
The Coca-Cola company has been forced to modify an advertisement in Kenya showing a couple kissing, which the Kenyan government asserts violates “family values.”
Cybersecurity leader SecureWorks Corp. may be the first tech IPO filing that actually completes an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016.
Google has removed and apologised for their April Fools’ Day Gmail button after users were angered as feature caused many users disciplinary issues at work.
A house in Rowlett, Texas has been mistakenly demolished as a result of the company hired to tear the place down were provided with the wrong address on Google Maps.
In a series of Hillary Clinton’s emails, WikiLeaks have revealed that Google attempted to aid Syrian rebels and boost defections from President Bashar al-Assad in 2012.
As the first sitting president to visit Cuba in nearly a century, President Barack Obama marked his arrival in Havana with an announcement about Google.
Google told the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee that Congress must fast-track self-driving cars by waiving states’ rights with a federal takeover of all roads and highways, the better to keep America ahead of Europe, China, and Japan, which are “hot on our heels.”
(Reuters) — Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) has put Boston Dynamics, part of its robotics division, up for sale for lack of revenue potential, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the plans.
The DeepMind Challenge victory demonstrates that Google’s open-source “artificial general intelligence” has just launched a new era of disruptive technology.
The development of computer systems that could hold their own against chess grandmasters was a major step toward the development of artificial intelligence. Another step was taken when Google’s AlphaGo program beat grandmaster Lee Se-Dol at Go, the far more complex Chinese strategy game. AlphaGo’s designers professed themselves astounded by its victory, which arrived a decade earlier than they anticipated.
Contents: Google’s AlphaGo computer defeats world champion at game of Go; Despite rapid growth of ISIS in Libya, West cannot agree on a strategy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly released video shows the moment a Google self-driving car learned the hard way not to tussle with a public bus.
BRUSSELS – News Corp’s chief executive will meet the EU antitrust chief this week, the company said on Monday, with the focus expected to be on the EU’s investigation into whether Internet search engine Google abused its dominance. CEO Robert
A recently released video shows a robot “dog” named Spot confronting a real Terrier named Cosmo in a San Jose parking lot–and driving the real dog crazy.
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday called on governments around the world to compel social media giants like Facebook and Google to combat anti-Semitism by blocking content that contains incitement to violence. Speaking at the annual gathering
Vladimir Putin’s new internet adviser has suggested an imposition of higher taxes on US based technology companies Google and Apple, as well as a ban on Microsoft Windows from all Russian government computers.
(Reuters) — U.S. vehicle safety regulators have said the artificial intelligence system piloting a self-driving Google car could be considered the driver under federal law, a major step toward ultimately winning approval for autonomous vehicles on the roads.
German Klimenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Internet adviser,” is considering a “technology tax” on Internet giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook to create “more equal working conditions” with Russian tech companies.
Google, the tech giant at the centre of a tax controversy in the UK, has “categorically” rubbished “conspiracy theories” suggesting the search engine’s autocomplete function censors results relating to the Conservative Party. Users of Google’s search engine noticed anomalies in the
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Alphabet now comes before Apple atop the list of the world’s most valuable companies.
As first-in-the-nation Iowa voters prepare to caucus, open borders financier Mark Zuckerberg weighed in on the race through the president of his powerful immigration lobbying firm, FWD.us.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is the candidate Iowans — and the rest of the nation — have “Googled” the most over the past seven months, according to search results released Monday by a digital marketing firm. According to iQuanti,
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour party demanded on Sunday that the finance ministry explain how it arrived at a back tax payment by Internet giant Google that has put the government on the back foot. The settlement of 130
The Financial Times takes a look at the under-reported international tax crisis, which could spiral into a complete meltdown due to cases involving Google, Apple, and Amazon.
Contents: China’s game of Go beaten by Google’s AI software program AlphaGo; Google DeepMind’s Go algorithm uses massive pattern matching neural networks; Google’s AI technology will soon start taking people’s jobs
The former Respect Member of Parliament George Galloway has been granted permission to sue Google over a YouTube film of a protest where he was described as a “tramp” and “scumbag” who supported Islamic terrorists beheading British and American citizens. George Galloway
Sean Ludwick, a 43-year old millionaire from Long Island charged with killing his passenger in a drunk-driving incident, allegedly made a rather ill-conceived attempt to skip bail. He laid his plans with Google searches such as “How do fugitives escape?”, “Why do fugitives get caught?”, “Fleeing from justice – what can happen?”, and “Does Venezuela extradite to the U.S.?”
Google has a brilliant solution to Europe’s refugee crisis: they’re giving away free Chromebooks. With repatriation still a controversial option, the Silicon Valley giant no doubt hopes that foisting their painfully slow hardware on immigrants will scare at least some of them back to Syria.
Fox News and Google have invited three YouTube personalities to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate — including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot, and who visually portrayed him in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.
Google’s effort to keep its search bar alive on Apple iPhones turns out to be a bigger deal than many people suspected — especially since, as Bloomberg Business notes, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been criticizing Google for invading the privacy of users.
Silicon Valley tech stocks that have led world stock markets up since the March 2009 bottom of Great Financial Crisis led markets down on January 15, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tanking 537 points before recovering to a still
“Will Hillary Clinton get prosecuted” was the most Googled search result for Clinton during Sunday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina.
