A settlement disclosed Monday in a federal court is primarily designed to ensure that users who use Incognito mode in Chrome get more privacy while surfing the internet than they had been previously.
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Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google’s April Fool’s Day joke
Besides the quantum leap in storage, Gmail also came equipped with Google’s search technology so users could quickly retrieve a tidbit from an old email, photo, or other personal information stored on the service.
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Amazon bets $150 billion on data centers required for AI boom
The spending spree is a show of force as the company looks to retain its cloud computing edge over Microsoft and Google.
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Google wants to help track methane polluters spotted from space
The goal is to better identify opportunities to reduce emissions and unlock more aggressive climate action from governments and fossil fuel operators, many of which have committed to significant cuts by 2030.
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Apple’s Steve Jobs disciple and Google defector to get spotlight at search trial
The two men rode considerably different paths to Apple’s executive suite but now find themselves central to the government’s case that Google abused its power in the online search market.
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U.S. claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to maintain its search dominance
Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove at trial that Google rigged the market in its favor by locking in its search engine as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices.
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Chatbots sometimes make things up. Is AI’s hallucination problem fixable?
Anthropic, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and other major developers of AI systems known as large language models say they’re working to make them more truthful. How long that will take remains to be seen.
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Google must break up digital ad business over competition concerns, European regulators say
It’s the first time the EU has told a tech giant that it must split up key parts of its business over violations of its strict antitrust laws.
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Supreme Court weighs Google’s liability in ISIS terror case
The justices seemed concerned about upending the internet in their interpretation of a 1996 law that shields Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others.
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Google cuts 12,000 jobs as tech industry layoffs widen
Google became the latest tech company to trim staff after rapid expansions during the COVID-19 pandemic have worn off.