Google on RT, Sputnik: Russian Media to Be ‘Deranked’ in Searches

Google parent company Alphabet said the search engine will "derank" articles from Russia Today and Sputnik because of allegations the Russian government meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. At the Halifax International Security Forum on Saturday, Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt said search algorithms would be used to limit the reach of articles, the BBC reported .

Will New Driverless Guidelines Jump-Start the Industry?

The Department of Transportation recently released revised guidelines for driverless cars, relaxing some guidelines put out during the Obama administration last year. For example, a 15-point safety assessment was trimmed to just 12 points, and the guidelines no longer apply to Level 2 vehicles with partial automation such as crash-avoidance features.

Breaking from Google, Democrats consider becoming an antimonopoly party

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. a A messy, public brawl over a Google critic's ouster from a Washington think tank has exposed a fissure in Democratic Party politics.

Daniel K. Inouye, Southwestern US, Wisconsin Food, More: Wednesday Afternoon Buzz, August 30, 2017

University of Hawaii: Sen. Inouye's congressional papers available to the public . "The congressional archival papers of the late Daniel K. Inouye, who served 53 years in Congress, 50 in the U.S. Senate, are now available to the public via the University of Hawai i at Manoa Library Congressional Papers Collection.

Google Launches Hate Crime Tracking Tool, Omits Conservative Websites

Google News Lab is developing a new tool powered by machine learning, titled by " Documenting Hate News Ending ," which tracks every hate crime reported across 50 states using data collected from February 2017 onward. The tool is being developed as part of the "Documenting Hate project," which was launched this January by ProPublica.

Project Wing drone tested with Intel drone, DJI drone. Photo: Project Wing

Larry Page, co-founder of Google and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, promised in his annual shareholder's letter that there would be exciting things happening with Project Wing this year. Project Wing is the company's drone delivery project.

Samsung Galaxy S8 breaks S7 records

A separate update will deal with the inability to connect to certain high-speed Wi-Fi networks used by a local carrier and doesn't mean there is a hardware issue with the S8, Samsung said . The Galaxy S8 offers an all-screen front, repositioned fingerprint scanner, iris and facial recognition, a new voice assistant called Bixby , plus the latest Google Android software.

Cernovich: Google Hired Contractors to De-List InfoWars from Search Index

Google has hired contractors to remove or limit Alex Jones' website Infowars.com from its search engines. According to a search engine evaluator for Google, all contractors have been [instructed] to actively rate InfoWars as a low quality and untrusted site.

Samsung intros Bixby AI, ready to take on Siri and Google Assistant

The artificial intelligence system can analyse user's activities and identify their interest in products such as wine, sharing related information such as manufacturers and prices. According to them, the assistant will not be an option that requires you to learn new specific commands, because Bixby will adapt and evolve to your needs while you're using it.

a Us court has ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside of…

Does the US government have the power to order American companies to hand over data stored on servers outside of the country? That's the question at the heart of a legal battle between Google and the FBI. A US judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States - even though a federal appeals court reached an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft.

Former Obama campaign chief David Plouffe joins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Plouffe, 49, formerly President Barack Obama 's campaign manager, will end his day-to-day activities as adviser to Uber Technologies Inc., although he will remain a non-voting Uber board member. His involvement at Uber has diminished since former Google executive Rachel Whetstone was hired to lead the company's policy and communications divisions, Bloomberg News said Wednesday.

Trump tells anxious tech leaders: ‘We’re here to help’

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: Apple CEO Tim Cook, right, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, center, listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump, who faced fierce opposition from some Silicon Valley leaders during the election campaign, strove to assure the titans of tech on Wednesday that his administration is "here to help you folks do well."

Google Publicly Reveals 8 Secret FBI Requests

Freed by security reforms adopted by Congress last year, Google yesterday published the redacted contents of eight National Security Letters it received from the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2010 and 2015 requesting information on 21 user accounts. U.S. government agencies can use NSLs to request certain types of information about the activities of users of Internet services and other communication services.

Google extends conservative outreach

Alphabet's Google is racing to hire more conservatives for its lobbying and policy arm, trying to get a foothold in President-elect Donald Trump's Washington after enjoying a uniquely close relationship with the administration of President Barack Obama. In the weeks since the Nov. 8 election, Google has ramped up efforts to hire Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists to change the composition of its Washington office, according to three lobbyists with knowledge of the matter.