Google executives have condemned the controversial document that has been circulating inside the IT giant. Google diversity vice president Danielle Brown and engineering VP Ari Balogh addressed the document in separate messages to Google employees, according to CNN. Brown and ...
Read More »Google fined a record $2.7 billion by the EU for manipulating search results
Google has been hit with a record-breaking €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) fine by the European Union for breaking antitrust law, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Verge. The decision follows a seven-year investigation into the US company’s search algorithms, which ...
Read More »What to do if you’ve been affected by the massive Google Doc hack
A massive, sophisticated phishing campaign has been shut down by Google after a large number of accounts were targeted, it is believed, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Metro. The hack has been successful as it appears so genuine, posing as ...
Read More »Google Kitty Hawk flying car will be available this year
Google co-founder Larry Page’s mysterious flying cars will be available to buy by the end of this year, according to MailOnline. The billionaire’s company Kitty Hawk has officially launched after months of rumours and speculation. Kitty Hawk president Sebastian Thrun, ...
Read More »Google partners with Howard University to teach black coders
Google is ramping up efforts to promote diversity in Silicon Valley by launching a programme to recruit students from a historically black university, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Independent. The technology giant this week said that it is partnering with Howard University, a historically black university in ...
Read More »Facebook and Nokia to set transatlantic internet traffic for massive boost
Facebook and Nokia have teamed up to send record-breaking amounts of data thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. In recent tests, a new type of optical digital signal processing technology from Nokia Bell Labs achieved a capacity that’s roughly ...
Read More »Singularity Will Happen by 2029 – Ray Kurzweil
Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil has kept an astonishing accuracy rate of 86 percent. Earlier this week, at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas, Kurzweil made yet another prediction: the technological singularity will happen sometime in the ...
Read More »Google’s artificial intelligence can diagnose cancer faster than human doctors
Making the decision on whether or not a patient has cancer usually involves trained professionals meticulously scanning tissue samples over weeks and months. But an artificial intelligence (AI) program owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company, may be able to do ...
Read More »Google introduces Android Wear 2.0 fitness platform
Google’s revamped smartwatch operating system improves upon many of the problems that plagued Android Wear watches for the past two and a half years. As Dan Graziano made a review the Google’s Android Wear 2.0 watch platform for Cnet. Here ...
Read More »7-year-old girl asked Google for a job – and got a personal response from CEO Sundar Pichai
Chloe Bridgewater, age 7, sent Google a handwritten letter noting her computer skills and expressing interest in working at a place that provides bean-bag chairs and go-karts for their employees, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Mail Online. The ‘Google ...
Read More »Google found a way to zoom and enhance photos just like in the movies
The fact is that it’s usually impossible to achieve this because there isn’t enough detail in a small number of pixels to eke out a clearer image than what you already have in the original file. A team of Google ...
Read More »Tech Giants Join Legal Action Against Donald Trump
The brief was filed late Sunday in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and emphasizes the importance of immigrants in the economy and society, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Independent. Ninety-seven companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal ...
Read More »Google Lunar X Prize: Who lands on the Moon first?
From a group of 16 contestants, five teams are officially moving forward into the final stretch of the Google Lunar X Prize competition — an international contest to send the first private spacecraft to the surface of the Moon, The ...
Read More »Google killed its solar-powered internet drone project
An Alphabet spokesperson has confirmed that its X division quietly dropped the Titan project shortly after it folded into X in late 2015, Engadget reports. The company sees its Project Loon’s high-altitude balloons as a “much more promising” way of ...
Read More »Google opens first 100% renewable energy data center
The $640 million data center, which supports cloud computing services, includes almost 1,000 miles of computer cables, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Dutch Daily News. The Eemshaven data center is Google’s fourth data center in Europe and took two years ...
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