As of Wednesday, Google Maps eco-friendly routing is live in the U.S. Photo courtesy Google On Wednesday, Google launched a suite of changes to many of its core products to help consumers make sustainable choices more easily. “Today, climate change is more than a threat,” Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a prerecorded video during a virtual press event Tuesday. “It is a real and present danger. From wildfires to flooding to more frequent and severe storms,… Source link

Google announced a suite of new features that it says will help people who use their platforms make more sustainable choices. The new services focus on reducing planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and are primarily found on Search, Maps, Travel, and Nest. But before we get into the details of how their new tools work, a quick note of context; some environmental advocates have called out companies for shifting responsibility for the climate crisis onto individual consumers. Holding… Source link

PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Defence company Thales (TCFP.PA) and Google are partnering to offer state-vetted cloud computing services for the storage of some of France’s most sensitive data, the companies said on Wednesday. The alliance between Thales, Europe’s largest defence electronics supplier, and the Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit fulfils a May government plan under which France acknowledged U.S. technological superiority in the field. read more The French government said then that cloud… Source link

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Late Monday night, Google filed for a court order to produce documents from longtime Google critic Luther Lowe, as part of its ongoing federal antitrust case, US vs. Google. The motion arises from an apparent breakdown in negotiations between Google and Lowe’s employer, Yelp. Yelp has agreed to document production from a number of its employees, but has resisted on Lowe in particular, leaving Google to ask the court for a subpoena that would compel email archives and other documents.

Stock futures opened in slightly positive territory on Tuesday, holding onto gains after a tech-led rebound rally during the regular session. Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Earlier, Big Tech stocks led the blue-chip index higher, with investors swooping in to buy a dip in growth and technology names after a rout on Monday. That sent the Nasdaq higher by 1.3% in the index’s best day since August.  So far in October, equities have see-sawed between steep gains and losses, with investors… Source link

Byteboard, a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. The product was originally incubated as part of the company’s internal R&D lab known as Area 120, where it’s been led by CEO Sargun Kaur. With this move, Byteboard will be the first Area 120 project to exit Google and become its own standalone company. But Google notes… Source link

The coronavirus pushed some Americans to abandon cash, and a new report was “somewhat surprised” that one demographic remains loyal: Teens. The findings were based on data from Piper Sandler’s fall 2021 “Taking Stock with Teens” survey, a semi-annual survey that was conducted between August 17 and September 16 and compiled responses from 10,000 teens (average age 15.8) across 44 U.S. states. According to Piper Sandler, which titled the chart below as “Cash Is (Still) King For Teens’ Top… Source link

On paper, the Biden administration is keeping in place the tariffs on imports and other protectionist measures Donald Trump imposed on China during his one-term presidency. But Biden is also hinting at deescalating Trump’s trade war and opening the door to better relations with the world’s second-largest economy—if China does its part. The Biden administration has announced a “new approach” toward China that has much in common with the old approach under Trump. Biden will keep in… Source link

Abbott Laboratories (ABT) has an enviable problem: It can’t produce enough rapid at-home COVID-19 antigen tests to keep up with demand. The company had previously warned that there would be a shortage of tests, though they are not the result of the supply chain issues many companies are facing. In a statement, Abbott explained that the company had started to reduce production when demand waned earlier this year. But following the surge of the Delta variant in recent months, which resulted in a… Source link