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Google unveiled a suite of sustainability features focused on giving consumers more information so they can choose to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Driving the news: The product rollout this morning will immediately be noticeable if you use Google Maps, utilize the company’s flight search tools, search for companies to invest in or simply query the search engine about the causes of global warming. Details: Google aims to enable a “billion sustainable actions” by 2022, said Kate Brandt,… Source link

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave Oct 6 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google cut fuel use and traffic delays by 10% to 20% at four locations in Israel by using artificial intelligence to optimize signal lights and it next plans to test the software in Rio de Janeiro, the company said on Wednesday. The early-phase research project is among new software initiatives inside Google… Source link

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

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.

Google’s Pixel 6 phones. Google The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6… Source link

Google Google is holding a launch event for the upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro on Oct…. Source link

Google traditionally holds an October hardware event to reveal its new Pixel phones. This year, it already announced them — here’s the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6. But the company clearly hasn’t said everything it wants to say publicly quite yet, because it just announced a virtual event for October 19th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT. Google: On October 19, we’re officially introducing you to Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro—the completely reimagined Google phones. Powered by Tensor, Google’s… Source link

In May, Google announced plans to enable two-factor authentication (or two-step verification as it’s referring to the setup) by default to enable more security for many accounts. Now it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Google is once again reminding us of that plan, saying in a blog post that it will enable two-factor for 150 million more accounts by the end of this year. In 2018, Google said that only 10 percent of its active accounts were using two-factor authentication. It has… Source link