A black, deaf Google employee – who had been celebrated at corporate events and on social media as a success story for the search giant’s inclusive workplace – has accused the company of discrimination based on her disability and race. In an explosive lawsuit filed in the US Northern District of California, Jalon Hall — the first and only black, deaf hire at Google, according to Wired — slammed Google for limiting her access to sign-language interpreters months after… Source link

Image Credits: sarayut Thaneerat / Getty Images Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google. Previously, Chrome downloaded a list of known sites that harbor malware, unwanted software and phishing scams once or twice per hour. Now, Chrome will move to a system that will send the URLs you are visiting to… Source link

Cybersecurity attacks are constantly evolving, and sometimes the difference between successfully detecting a threat or not is a matter of minutes. To keep up with the increasing pace of hackers, we’re bringing real-time, privacy-preserving URL protection to Google Safe Browsing for anyone using Chrome on desktop or iOS. Plus we’re introducing new password protections on Chrome for iOS as another way to help you safely navigate the web. Real-time protection through Safe Browsing Safe… Source link

It’s not just the headcount at Google that’s getting smaller. Like other Silicon Valley giants retrenching amid financial uncertainty, Google has cut thousands of jobs since January 2023. But the company is also accelerating changes within its lavish corporate cafeterias — a longtime lure for tech employees — that will both reduce costs and cut the company’s food waste. Source link

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Massive chunks of hail pelted parts of Kansas and Missouri on Wednesday night, bringing traffic to a standstill along Interstate 70, as storms unleashed possible tornadoes and meteorologists urged residents to stay indoors. There were three unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in Wabaunsee and Shawnee counties with reports of damaged structures, but no reports of injuries or homes damaged, according to meteorologist Matt Wolters with the National Weather Service’s Topeka… Source link

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An accumulation of water in the foundation of a construction site in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul has falsely been identified as a lake on digital maps such as Google, Apple and Yandex. The construction work in the Koşuyolu neighborhood, which started in 2015 with the plan to build a hotel next to the D-100 highway, was halted by a court decision in 2016 after the company dug the foundation. For the past eight years, nothing has been done to the area, and it… Source link

Google is developing a DeepMind based AI that could end up being the ultimate virtual co-op buddy. It’s not some play-to-win opponent or super-bot, but a general, instructible game-playing AI agent. Google presented a research article (via @rowancheung) on what it calls a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA). The general idea is that it’s a learning AI that can follow verbal instructions and understand the virtual world it’s in. Rather than functioning as a hard-coded AI opponent or… Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Sahil Gaba interviewed at Google three times before landing his current software engineering role. Sahil Gaba Sahil Gaba, a software engineer, landed a job at Google after two prior rejections. Gaba felt less stressed the third time because he had more interview and coding experience. He also felt that having a good current job helped take away some of the pressure of his interview. Sahil Gaba was four years out… Source link

Google’s latest AI agent is learning how to navigate a familiar space: gaming. The tech giant released new research on its Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent, or SIMA, on Wednesday. This agent can follow instructions to carry out tasks in video games — and play games it has never seen before. But, like Genie, which DeepMind, Google’s AI research arm, discussed in a research paper published Feb. 23, SIMA is a research project. “We could in the future have agents like SIMA playing alongside… Source link