MOUNTAIN VIEW — The 20-year timeline to build a Google village that would transform suburban office parks of the East Whisman neighborhood as well as the tech giant’s plan for meeting the city’s affordable housing requirements raised eyebrows this week among city commissioners who are eager to build housing more quickly. As part of several other massive housing projects across the South Bay, Google’s Middlefield Park project would create a new neighborhood of 1,900 homes, about 1.2… Source link

In a letter posted to LinkedIn dated January 5, David W. Baker, a Google director of engineering who worked on trust and safety, wrote that he was leaving the company as of January 19 after more than 16 years. Gebru’s departure, Baker wrote, “extinguished my desire to continue as a Googler.” Similarly, Vinesh Kannan, a software engineer, posted on Twitter Wednesday that he left Google this month “because of Google’s mistreatment” of Gebru and April Curley, a Black ex-Google diversity… Source link

Two Google engineers have resigned from the tech giant, citing the departure late last year of prominent Black artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru. The resignations are the latest salvos in an ongoing fight between the company and workers who are furious about its lack of diversity. In a letter posted to LinkedIn dated January 5, David W. Baker, a Google director of engineering who worked on trust and safety, wrote that he was leaving the company as of January 19… Source link

Is your smartphone about to replace your doctor? Probably not, but if you own a Pixel phone from Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, you’ll soon be getting some basic medical diagnostic capability on your device. Next month, with an update to the Google Fit app, the cameras on such models will be… Source link

Google is considering developing an Android alternative to Apple’s upcoming App Tracking Transparency, a new planned opt-in requirement the iPhone maker will impose on developers that demands they ask for permission to track iOS users across apps and websites. The news, first reported on Thursday by Bloomberg, underscores the increasing pressure on large tech companies, many spurred on by Apple, to take more proactive measures to better protect user privacy. Google won’t say whether… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, -0.25% GOOG, -0.37% cloud division on Thursday announced a new, multi-year, strategic partnership with Twitter Inc. TWTR, +3.54%. Under the deal, Twitter will extend its work with Google and move offline analytics, data processing, and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud. This would allow Twitter to analyze data faster and improve the experience for people who use… Source link

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Penny Stocks With Over 200% Upside on the Horizon Let’s talk about risk and the big picture. It’s an appropriate time, as the big risk – presented by the COVID-19 pandemic – is finally receding thanks to the ongoing vaccination program. COVID is leaving behind an economy that was forced into shutdown one year ago while in the midst of a great expansion, boosted by the deregulation policies. While the new Biden Administration is busy reversing many Trump… Source link

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud today announced a new, multi-year, strategic partnership with Twitter (NYSE: TWTR). The company will deepen its initial work with Google and move its offline analytics, data processing, and machine learning workloads to Google’s Data Cloud. This will allow Twitter to analyze data faster and improve the experience for people who use the service every day. Behind every Tweet, Like and Retweet is a series of data points that helps… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link

Google announced today what is potentially a large change for certain paid search managers: the broad match modified version of keywords will be going away. This change will start rolling out in two weeks. What’s Happening to Broad Match Modified? Phrase match will now expand to cover broad match modified instances. Google notes it will “continue to respect word order when it’s important to meaning.” Advertisers will not have to take any specific action. Performance data will stay where… Source link