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...
Key Engineer in Uber, Google Self-Driving Suit Part of New Trucking Startup December 21, 2018 By Gerrit De Vynck One of the most controversial figures in the self-driving technology space is back. Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and...
Google Drops Mandatory Arbitration Provision in Sexual Misconduct Cases November 13, 2018 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Google is promising to be more forceful and open about its handling of sexual misconduct cases, a week after thousands...
Apple, Firefox Privacy Tools Aim to Block Facebook, Google Tracking September 19, 2018 By ANICK JESDANUN Facebook and other companies routinely track your online surfing habits to better target ads at you. Two web browsers now...