Tag: Google
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Rebellion against military project by Google workers grows
An internal petition calling for Google to stay out of “the business of war” was gaining support Tuesday, with some workers reportedly quitting to protest a collaboration with the US military. About 4,000 Google employees were said to have signed a petition that began circulating about three months ago urging the Internet giant to refrain…
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Fake news: Google relaunches news service
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that the company is relaunching its news service facilitating the search of information from credible sources for its users as part of fight against fake news distribution, local media reported on Wednesday. According to the Business Insider news portal, the Google News service with the use of Artificial Intelligence…
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How Google is turning self-driving cars from science fiction into reality
Today at Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, Dmitri Dolgov, CTO and VP of Engineering, shared details on how Waymo is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make fully self-driving cars a reality. TheNewsGuru report Waymo is an autonomous car development company and subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Google began testing self-driving cars in…
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Google reveals 13 ways you’re using AI in daily living
Artificial intelligence (AI) is behind many of Google’s products and is a big priority for us as a company, according to Google AI expert, Christine Robson, who, ahead of Google I/O, shared how AI affects daily life in ways not known, and how people from all over the world have used AI to build their…
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Google overhauls Gmail
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday unveiled its first Gmail redesign since 2013, capping what the company said was an expensive overhaul. It will include offline functionality and resemble Microsoft Outlook. It is Google’s most extensive update to software in its G Suite workplace bundle. It is accelerating efforts to steal business from Microsoft Corp’s dominant…
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YouTube deletes 5 million videos for content violation
YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O), deleted about 5 million videos from its platform for content policy violations in last year’s fourth quarter before any viewers saw them, it said in a new report that highlighted its response to pressure to better police its online community. YouTube has been criticized by governments that say…
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Google unveils Google Go to support one gigabyte RAM
Google on Thursday unveiled Google Go, a new app built to support Android devices with one gigabyte Random Access Memory (RAM) and below. The Country Director of Google, Mrs Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor, unveiled the app in Lagos. According to Ehimuan-Chiazor, the Google Go is available as at today in 26 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa through the…
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Google appeals Indian antitrust watchdog’s ‘search bias’ verdict: sources
Online search giant Google has filed an appeal at the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal against a judgment from India’s competition watchdog that found it guilty of search bias, official sources told media on Tuesday. The appeal was filed on Monday, one of the sources said. In February, the Competition Commission of India imposed a…
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Plateau govt. seeks partnerships with Facebook, Google, others
The Plateau Government says it is initiating talks with its development partners, multinationals like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and local organisations to develop Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the state. The Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr Dan Manjang, disclosed this on Wednesday in Jos when the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists…
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Twitter’s CEO battles President Trump over YouTube HQ shooting
After shooting at YouTube headquarters left a man and two women injured with gunshot wounds, Twitter’s founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey has called out on President Donald Trump to other than praying, evolve policies to address incessant shootings in the United States. Chaos erupted at the Google-owned video sharing platform offices in California…