Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said. It’s the latest sign of internal turmoil at the tech giant centered on […]
Google fired 28 employees after the protests held across two of the company’s offices on April 16. The employees had staged the protests over Google’s association with the Israeli government, which involves cloud-computing services known as “Project Nimbus.” The company alerted the police after sit-in protests at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, which […]
Google is facing a civil lawsuit from a group of Japanese doctors over false information posted on the company’s Google Maps app. The lawsuit, which was filed in Tokyo District Court on April 18, is seeking 1.4 million yen—which equates to almost $9,500 in damages for over 60 medical professionals, who have claimed the company […]
Google employees in two different office locations staged protests against the company over its involvement with the Israeli government. Google signed a billion-dollar contract with Israel in 2021. The contract, known as Nimbus, operates jointly with Amazon and offers cloud computing services to the U.S. ally. The protesters organized the sit-ins across Google’s Sunnyvale, California, […]
Google has begun removing California news websites from search results for some users in response to a state proposal that would require the search giant to pay media companies for linking to their content. The tech giant announced the move in a blog post on Friday, calling it a “short-term test for a small percentage […]
On Monday, former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial kicked off with jury selection. Google removes links to news publishers for some Californians. What is the tech giant testing? Nebraska lawmakers vote on restoring voting rights for newly released felons. Colorado is on track to ban semiautomatic firearms. Find out what supporters and opponents are […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a series of letters on Tuesday, seeking to stay current on the FBI and U.S. Justice Department officials’ efforts to communicate with and potentially sway the behavior of major technology companies like Google and Facebook. The FBI and DOJ have come under past scrutiny for their outreach […]
Google has released a new update to its Android feature that aims to help people track down their misplaced devices—even if they’re offline. The tech company announced the release on April 8 on its Android Blog, saying the all-new “Find My Device” app is already available to users in the United States and Canada, and […]
SAN FRANCISCO—Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser. The records purge comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance. The details of the deal emerged […]
OAKLAND, Calif.—Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on March 26 named Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. A late-breaking candidate in Mr. Kennedy’s months-long search for a vice president, Ms. Shanahan, a political novice, was introduced at a March 26 event in Oakland, where she was raised. Ms. Shanahan, 38, was […]
The European Union launched anti-competitive investigations on Monday against tech behemoths Apple, Alphabet, and Meta for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The companies are alleged to have run afoul of the DMA, a law designed to monitor large online platforms or ‘gatekeepers.’ These are businesses with a large user base, active in […]
A new study released by the Media Research Center (MRC) found that Google has interfered with elections 41 times since 2008, harming candidates who challenged those on the political left without exception and even acting against some Democrats who challenged their preferred candidates. In 2008, for example, MRC found that Google censored Hillary Clinton-supporting bloggers, […]
A former Google software engineer has been indicted on charges of stealing artificial intelligence-related trade secrets while working for Chinese competitors seeking to gain an edge in the AI race. Linwei Ding, a Chinese national who also goes by Leon, was charged by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with four counts of trade […]
Google has issued an apology for its Gemini (formerly ‘Bard’) artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot generating images that portrayed historical figures—such as the Founding Fathers—in a racially inaccurate manner, or producing racially biased images. The chatbot has also refused to produce renderings of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, citing the complex nuances involved. Several conservative users noticed […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) accuses Jan. 6 investigators of getting private data from banks. At the second impeachment hearing for Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas, a committee highlighted the influx of drugs smuggled across the border. Two California teachers are now allowed to return to their classrooms. They sued their school district over gender identity policies. […]
Google is starting the year off with sweeping layoffs across divisions. The layoffs include hundreds of employees who work on some of the company’s most recognizable products, including Google Assistant, the voice-activated software that helps users check the weather, set timers, and quickly look up facts. The Google Assistant layoffs are at least partly driven […]
Alphabet’s Google has agreed to pay $700 million and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers disclosed on Monday in a San Francisco federal court. Google will pay $630 million into a settlement fund for consumers and $70 million into […]
Google said on Monday that it would pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a group of U.S. states that accused the internet giant of running a monopoly on its Play Store to inflate prices for paid apps. The company agreed to pay $630 million into a settlement fund for consumers and $70 […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) forbade Google from disclosing to Congressional staffers that the DOJ had obtained access to their Google accounts, according to court documents. This revelation resulted from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filing by nonprofit watchdog Empower Oversight. “Empower Oversight has obtained copies of five previously sealed court orders between 2017 […]
The latest Consumer Price Index report—an inflation gauge that measures price changes for a basket of consumer goods and services—ticked down slightly to 3.1 percent for the 12 months that ended in November, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Tuesday. Stripping out the more volatile components of food and energy, the core index […]
