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Eric Schmidt Steps Down As Alphabet Chairman

After helping turning Google into a technology titan, Eric Schmidt steps down from his central role

7 years ago

Google Machine Learning Technology Helps NASA Discover New Exoplanet

Machine Learning technology powering many of Google's apps and services finds a new use helping astrophysicists find new planets orbiting…

7 years ago

Google Opens AI Centre In China Despite Search Ban

Google to open AI research centre in China, despite country's ban on its products

7 years ago

Microsoft Previews Quantum Computing Language Q#

The company's quantum computing development kit includes the Q# language as well as local and cloud simulators, libraries and sample…

7 years ago

Google Begins Rollout Of Android 8.1 Oreo

Rollout of next iteration of Android underway as 8.1 looks towards accelerate on-device machine intelligence

7 years ago

Google Tackles KRACK With December’s Android Bulletin

Patch update for Android, but good news is that there are no reports of any flaws being exploited in the…

7 years ago

Google To Release AI Vision Kit For Raspberry Pi Zero W

The kit includes all the elements needed to make artificially intelligent vision gadgets, with AI tasks carried out on an…

7 years ago

Google Slapped With UK Lawsuit Over Data Gathering

Long rumbling argument over Google tracking Safari users results in mass civil lawsuit against the firm

7 years ago

Online Giants, Small Businesses Criticise US Net Neutrality Repeal

The planned removal of a 2015 US law could mean more charges for large businesses and start-ups, not to mention…

7 years ago

Google Plans Hong Kong GCP Region For 2018

Google to open sixth data centre in Asia Pacific, this time in Hong Kong

7 years ago

Google Has Been ‘Tracking’ Android User Locations

Search engine collects location data on Android users, even when location services are switched off

7 years ago

Google Cloud Diary: GCP Slashes Price Of Nvidia Tesla GPUs By 36 Percent

GCP NEWS: Google makes it cheaper for customers needing to complete high computational tasks

7 years ago

Royal Society: Government Must Increase Computer Science GCSE Funding

Lack of skilled teachers blamed for over half England's secondary schools not offering GCSE computer science

7 years ago

Volkswagen Uses Google Quantum Computer For Research

Volkswagen to carry out traffic optimisation, material, and machine learning research on Google quantum computer

7 years ago

Dreamforce 2017: Salesforce Names Google As ‘Preferred’ Cloud Partner

Salesforce will use Google cloud infrastructure for overseas expansion and will link its tools to Google's cloud apps, a year…

7 years ago

Tech Quiz: Obscure & Obsolete Social Networks

What do you remember at Friends Reunited, Bebo, Myspace and the like?

7 years ago

Google Docs Problem Raises Privacy Concerns, Again

Problems with locked Google Docs files raises privacy concerns due to its monitoring of private files

7 years ago

Bug Found In Google Bug Tracker Database

Discovery of bug in Google's bug tracking database lands researcher $15,600 in bug bounties

7 years ago

Google Appeal Claims EU Misstated Facts When It Imposed Massive Fine

In its appeals of a $2.9 billion fine, Google has claimed that the European Commission misstated the facts about the…

7 years ago

Google Adds Neural Networks API For Android 8.1 Preview

Ahead of December launch, Android 8.1 includes a Neural Networks API to accelerate on-device machine intelligence

7 years ago

Cisco, Google Buddy Up For Hybrid Cloud Push

Taking the cloud fight to Amazon, Google and Cisco partner for new hybrid cloud solution

7 years ago

Google Allows Third-Party Add-ons For Gmail

Gmail opened up for direct integration with business applications across desktop and mobile devices

7 years ago

Google Investigates Reported Pixel 2 XL Screen Issues

Users have reported ghosted images on the screen, amongst other problems marring the launch of Google's iPhone 8 competitor

7 years ago

Google DeepMind AI No Longer Needs Humans To Learn

Skynet anyone? DeepMind's Go-playing artificial intelligence system can now learn without human assistance

7 years ago

Samsung Partners With Google For ARCore Augmented Reality

Google to bring its ARCore platform to Galaxy devices thanks to augmented reality deal with Samsung

7 years ago

Google Says Its AI Can Program AI Better Than Humans Can

Google's AutoML programme, announced earlier this year, has now produced machine-learning models that outperform hand-built ones

7 years ago

Google Adds ‘Advanced Protection’ Account Security Option

The feature, aimed at 'high-risk' users including politicians, journalists and dissidents, requires two hardware keys amongst other protections

7 years ago

Fake AdBlock Plus Chrome Extension Installed By More Than 30,000 Users

Google has removed malware that appeared identical to the AdBlock Plus advert blocker and was listed on the official Chrome…

7 years ago

FCC Approves Google Project Loon for Hurricane-Devastated Puerto Rico

ANALYSIS: FCC approves license for Google's to set up its Project Loon communications system in hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico

7 years ago

Google Pixel 2 And Pixel 2 XL Are Pure Android 8.0 Oreo Smartphones

Design and display tweaks with smarter features seen an evolution over the Pixel's predecessors

7 years ago