July 30, 2018 Facebook, tech giants creating 'crisis in democracy' and must be held liable, UK report says A scathing new report from the British parliament calls for technology companies to be held liable for “misleading” content on their platforms and says the world is facing a “democratic crisis” thanks to the spread of false information online.
July 23, 2018 Google Translate warns of apocalypse in bizarre 'end times' message Fears of an imminent apocalypse have been sparked by a mysterious warning from Google Translate.
July 19, 2018 YouTube removes channel operated by couple on probation for child neglect YouTube removed “FamilyOFive” from its website following uproar from users online.
July 18, 2018 Google is fined $5 billion by EU in Android antitrust case The European Union plans to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a record antitrust fine of €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) on Wednesday, according to an official familiar with the matter, a decision that could loosen the company’s grip on its biggest growth engine: mobile phones.
July 13, 2018 Facebook making slow progress on diversity, report says Facebook’s latest diversity report shows that, while the tech giant has grown the percentage of women in its workforce, more work needs to be done in other areas.
July 12, 2018 Sex, drugs, and Google: Book looks at search giant's wild early days Silicon Valley heavyweight Google was a wild child in its earliest days—a startup fueled by booze and a partying atmosphere, according to a new tell-all book.
July 10, 2018 YouTube investing $25M in journalism and pushing 'authoritative' sources YouTube is pouring $25 million into journalism on its platform in a push to support trustworthy news organizations and help them produce online videos.
July 3, 2018 Tech's 'dirty secret': App developers are sifting through your Gmail Google said a year ago it would stop its computers from scanning the inboxes of Gmail users for information to personalize advertisements, saying it wanted users to “remain confident that Google will keep privacy and security paramount.”
June 29, 2018 Google finally fixes Home and Chromecast: What to do June 28 Update: This story has been updated with Google's fix to end the outages.
June 29, 2018 Google might be planning a console. That doesn’t mean it will happen A new report suggests that Google is working on a game console, code-named Yeti. The reports about Google's game console are likely true, but that doesn't mean we will ever see it.
