UPS Seeks Airline-Type Status for Long-Distance Drone Deliveries July 24, 2019 By Thomas Black and Alan Levin United Parcel Service Inc. is seeking approval to operate delivery drones under the same rules as a private jet service,...
Google Attacked Over Limits on Internet Company Liability July 17, 2019 By Gerrit De Vynck and Rebecca Kern U.S. senators used a Congressional hearing on Tuesday to push the idea of overhauling a law that protects YouTube, Facebook...
Alphabet Unveils App to Provide Air-Traffic Control for Drones July 16, 2019 By Alan Levin The company that brought you free digital maps and email wants to do the same thing for your drone. Wing...
Advertisers Face Up to Scandal Risk But Can’t Ditch Tech Giants June 21, 2019 By Joe Mayes and Angelina Rascouet The advertising industry’s annual gathering on the French Riviera has become a recurring cycle of contrition from technology giants and...
Google’s Secret ‘Trashy Video’ AI Cleans Up YouTube Homepage May 28, 2019 By Mark Bergen YouTube is littered with extreme and misleading videos, and the company has been criticized for not doing enough to limit...
Google Glass Finds a New Home at the Factory May 20, 2019 Remember Google Glass? The vaunted debut of the company’s computerized eyewear six years ago was one of Silicon Valley’s more...
Alphabet’s Drone Delivery Business Cleared for Takeoff by FAA April 23, 2019 By Alan Levin About the photo: A Google X Project Wing drone delivers a package at a home during a demonstration in Blacksburg,...
Real or Artificial? Tech Titans Declare AI Ethics Concerns April 8, 2019 By Matt O'Brien and Rachel Lerman About the photo: In this March 21, 2019 photo a robot called “Pepper” is positioned near an entrance to a...
U.K. Joins Social Media Crackdown After Live-Streamed Attack April 8, 2019 By Lucy Meakin and Kitty Donaldson The United Kingdom joined a growing global backlash against technology companies such as Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc., proposing fines...
Fraudster Admits Scamming $100M from Facebook and Google March 21, 2019 By Chris Dolmetsch A Lithuanian man admitted he helped trick Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into sending more than $100 million through...