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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell weighs in on Google’s crack down on digital ads promoting false climate change claims, arguing that it is a ‘slide toward fascism.’  Google is pursuing a massive cloud-computing contract with the Department of Defense, nearly three years after abandoning a similar bid process in the face of employee protests. The head of the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary’s cloud division, Thomas Kurian, met this week with Pentagon officials to… Source link

When Sonos purchased a privacy-focused voice assistant Snips in 2019, it strongly implied that it planned to build an assistant that would “add to our customers’ ease of use and control” instead of going head-to-head with bigger assistants from other big tech companies. Nearly two years later, we might be close to being using the company’s homegrown assistant, as a Reddit user found code in the Sonos app that appears to show voice commands for Sonos Voice Control (via Protocol).

Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence, the company is aggressively pursuing a major contract to provide its technology to the military. The company’s plan to land the potentially lucrative contract, known as the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, could raise a furor among its outspoken work force and test the resolve of management to resist employee demands. In 2018, thousands of Google employees signed a… Source link

The digital world is constantly evolving—Facebook is Meta now!—yet internet search remains a magic box where we type questions and answers just appear on the screen. Critics say this disconnect has led to cluttered design, ads camouflaged as search results, even a search algorithm that some say shows signs of wear: ProPublica reporter Jesse Eisinger recently tweeted he thinks Google searches have gotten “significantly worse,” and he got 1,000 likes and nods of agreement from everyone… Source link

Google Google News will soon be available again in Spain after the… Source link

Who should get paid when big tech platforms aggregate news stories? This was the question that prompted Google to shut down its Google News platform in Spain in 2014, after the country decided the US tech giant should cough up a monthly fee to Spanish papers. Today, though, Google announced that Google News will return to Spain “early next year” after the country overhauled its online copyright laws in line with EU regulation. The big difference from Google’s point of view is that… Source link

Written by John Hewitt Jones Nov 3, 2021 | FEDSCOOP Google has received the highest level of approval under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Google Workspace product. It is the latest product by the technology giant to receive approval under the federal security program in recent months, including its admin console, cloud identity, identity and access management and virtual… Source link

The University announced all students will transition from Google to Office 365 beginning in spring of 2022 in an email sent Wednesday by Dana German, associate vice president and deputy chief information officer. Students quickly expressed anger and frustration at the decision — a petition created Wednesday has amassed over 3,800 signatures.  In an interview with The Cavalier Daily, German said the decision was made for a few reasons, one of… Source link

The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo MILAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Italy’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it had dropped a probe into Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) alleged abuse of its dominant position in the online display advertising market after the EU antitrust started a similar investigation. The Italian watchdog decided non to take any action as under EU laws the case is now out of its… Source link

Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo MADRID, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Spain has adopted a European Union copyright directive that allows third-party online news platforms to negotiate directly with content providers, the government said on Tuesday, setting the stage for Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google News to return to the country. Google News, which links to third-party content, closed in Spain in late 2014 in response to legislation… Source link