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Google To Open Chinese AI Research Lab In China
Artificial Iintelligence (AI) centre to open despite the fact that its search services remain blocked in the country after the best part of a decade. The subsidiary of Alphabet will build the new AI research facility in the city of Shanghai. The project is to be headed up Fei-Fei Li,... Read more
Google’s AlphaZero AI Beats World’s Best Chess Software
AlphaZero artificial intelligence software triumphed at chess against the world’s best chess program after amassing all human knowledge of the game in just four hours. Google researchers have published a paper in which they detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, managed to display a “superhuman performance” in chess, taking just four hours to learn the... Read more
Google Faces UK Lawsuit Over Privacy
Action sought over alleged snooping on iPhone users. In the digital age, there are a few universal truths: nothing is ever deleted from the internet, and nothing is truly private. Even with the strictest security settings, every available tech tool, and the best of intentions, someone out there can access... Read more
US Users Hit By Google Docs Outage
Los Angeles, San Francisco and West Coast hit hardest; rest of G Suite unaffected. Google Docs users suddenly found themselves without access to any of their docs, when Docs itself became inaccessible late Wednesday afternoon. While the outage only lasted a few hours for a “significant subset of users,” panic and... Read more
Phishing Nets Hackers 250K Google Credentials Per Week
Cyber-thieves’ quarter million haul of valid log-in names and passwords for Google accounts every week. Highly skilled hackers with unbelievable know-how may be infiltrating the highest levels of government, but the day to day cybercrimes are happening in a far more mundane fashion. According to a new study conducted by... Read more
WhatsApp ‘Fake’ Downloaded More Than One Million Times From Google Play
Fake Android update appeared in Google’s official app store. It is understood that more than a million people downloaded a fake version of WhatsApp onto their Android devices through the official Google App center, before Google realized and removed the fake app from the Play store. It’s easy to see why... Read more
Google Pixel Buds To Surpass AirPods In Connectivity
The race between the two tech giants for seamless headphone pairing continues. Apple and Google have both taken on the wireless headphone space with a Bluetooth-connected feature on their latest phones, but both products have similarities and striking differences. In the race to get rid of the wire–although Google’s product... Read more
Google parent company to the rescue for communications in Puerto Rico
Alphabet’s Project Loon partners with AT&T to restore and boost web infrastructure on hurricane-hit island. Citizens of Puerto Rico have had an unexpected boost to their mobile data services after high-tech communications balloons provided by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have started flying above the disaster-struck island. For many in Puerto... Read more
Google Signs $1.1bn Deal With HTC
Search giant in return to smartphone manufacturing. Google and HTC have announced that Google has bought part of the Taiwan based HTC’s mobile phone division for a staggering $1.1 billion, the companies have announced.  Google’s Vice-President of hardware, Rick Osterloh said in a blog post: “…We’ve signed an agreement with HTC, a... Read more
Google Appeals EU’s €2.4bn Search Engine Results Fine
Tech giant lodges appeal against massive fine by European Commission. Back in the middle of summer, the regulator ruled that Google’s positioning its own shopping comparison service at the top of Google search results, ahead of competitors, such as Amazon, was an abuse of power. The €2.4bn fine was, and still... Read more
Google Questionnaire To Help Decide If You’re Clinically Depressed
Search giant partners with US National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Now when you search for “clinical depression” on Google on mobile,” reads Google’s blog post on the subject, “you’ll see a Knowledge Panel that will give you the option to tap “check if you’re clinically depressed”, which will bring you... Read more
Google Pulls 500 Apps With Secret Spyware Backdoor
Google kills secret plugin download after being alerted by researchers. It’s terrible when an app that collects data in order to target users with advertising turns on you, but that’s exactly what prompted Google to pull 500 apps from the Play Store last week. Those apps, ranging from games to... Read more
Google Fires Anti-Diversity Memo Author 
Male engineer at the centre of current diversity uproar in Silicon Valley. The news comes a little over a week after Google engineer, James Damore, authored an internal memo in which he stated that there were innate biological differences behind the gender inequalities that are rampant in the tech industry.... Read more
Ransomware Not Going Anywhere Anytime Soon, Says Google
New study by Google warns that Ransomware is ‘here to stay’. According to Google, the surge of Ransomware is now an endemic scourge of the internet, and the problems associated with it are only going to get worse. Ransomware has “become a very, very profitable market and is here to... Read more
Google Glass Returns, Marketed Exclusively for Business
Alphabet’s Google smart glasses, Google Glass have returned, and it turns out they never really went away… But this time instead of attempting to sell it to the consumer market, the tech giant are selling it directly to industry and business calculating that the new ‘Glass Enterprise Edition’ with all... Read more
Google replaces Drive and Photos with Backup and Sync
But don’t worry! Google Drive and Photos are still available. Google has introduced what it claims to be a simpler, faster and more reliable way to protect files and photos for its users. Called Google Backup and Sync (available for Windows and Mac), the new tool replaces the Google Drive and... Read more
Google Facing Second Record EU Fine: This Time Over Android.
Another week, another antitrust case. Google has found itself facing a second record fine from European regulators in another antitrust case, in as many weeks, according to a report by Reuters. As the dust still settles over the EU’s 2.4 billion Euro fine against Google’s comparison search practices, last week,... Read more
Court Rules Google Must Block Some Search Results
Canada’s Supreme Court ruling latest blow for Google. In the same week that the Alphabet subsidiary was fined a record breaking $2.4bn by European regulators, Canada’s Supreme court ruled that Canadian based courts do have the power to force Google to remove search results worldwide. The possibly groundbreaking ruling by... Read more