‘Great for tech’: Silicon Valley warms to Trump after a chilly start

"There is a lot of fear within Google," said Sundar Pichai, the company's chief executive, according to a video of the meeting viewed by The New York Times. When asked by an employee if there was any silver lining to Trump's election, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, "Boy, that's a really tough one right now."

A raucous Google-Uber fight is finally heading to trial

A Google-bred pioneer in self-driving cars and Uber's beleaguered ride-hailing service are colliding in a courtroom showdown revolving around allegations of deceit, betrayal, espionage and a high-tech heist that tore apart one-time allies. The trial opening Monday in San Francisco federal court comes nearly a year after Google spin-off Waymo sued Uber, accusing it of ripping off key pieces of its self-driving car technology in 2016.

Silicon Valley mystery: Why the ‘time is right’ for Schmidt to leave as Alphabet chairman

Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, here in Cannes, France, in June 2016, is stepping down as AlphabetAf A A A A A s executive chairman. Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, here in Cannes, France, in June 2016, is stepping down as AlphabetAf A A A A A s executive chairman.

.com | Turning YouTube into your business

Every hour of every day, more than six years' worth of content is uploaded to YouTube. No one can watch it all, so how do you create content that stands out among the zillions of uploads on the world's second largest search engine? Danilo Acquisto , the CEO of Special Effects Media SA the first commercial multichannel network in the country can help you with that.

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.