Google on Tuesday denied a report that work continues on Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine for China. “As we’ve said for many months, we have no plans to launch Search in China and there is no work being undertaken on such a project,” a Google spokesperson said in an email. “Team members have moved …
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Is Google’s location tracking so precise that it can know if someone moved from one side of a room to another? That’s a question US Rep. Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas, repeatedly asked Google CEO Sundar Pichai during one of the most pointed exchanges of Pichai’s congressional hearing Tuesday. But by using an iPhone, instead of a Google Android …
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai signaled Tuesday that his company will take a cautious approach to going back into China, if it ever does. The search giant has been under persistent criticism for its Project Dragonfly, which would bring a censored search engine to China. The project has prompted employee protests and resignations, as well as criticism from Amnesty International. Now playing: …
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Google has been experimenting with a censored search engine that would work in China, but it’s not sure if it will ever launch the service, CEO Sundar Pichai said Monday. Pichai, speaking during the Wired25 conference at the SFJazz Center in San Francisco, said Google started the internal project — dubbed Project Dragonfly — to see what was possible in …
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off the I/O conference by talking about accessibility features, Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif. In once case, Google is adding Morse Code support for its Gboard keyboard. Pichai showed a video of a woman named Tania who uses Morse Code to communicate. Now, when she starts spelling a word out in Morse Code, she can …
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Google updated its News app on Tuesday, adding artificial intelligence to help users find personalized stories and trustworthy sources. Now playing: Watch this: Google News uses AI to give you the news you want 2:43 The new version of Google News will scan millions of articles, videos, podcasts and comments from around the web using AI to assemble them based …
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Google is known for building many impressive things: Google Search, Google Maps, the Pixel 2 XL. And yet, it doesn’t seem to know the simple formula for assembling a cheeseburger. The company’s problematic approach to making up everyone’s favorite meaty sandwich was pointed out on Twitter by writer Thomas Baekdal, who noted that in Google’s version of the cheeseburger emoji …
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In the words of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, “Half of what you read on the internet is not true.” That’s the problem when you give billions of people access to a global forum where they can pretty much post whatever they want. You never know if what you’re reading is true, which is why we choose sites we think …
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