September 26, 2017 John Stossel: Google can fire an engineer but social engineers will never erase the real differences between men and women Why aren't there more women criminals?! Men in jail outnumber women by a ratio of 14-to-1. We male stutterers outnumber women, too.
September 25, 2017 Google Home now allows you to make free calls Google's smart speaker just learned a new trick.
September 25, 2017 Digital rights group warns that Google's stance on neo-Nazis is 'dangerous' The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns that Google, GoDaddy and Cloudflare’s decision to expel white supremacist site the Daily Stormer from their services has worrying free speech implications.
September 25, 2017 New Android malware can secretly steal your credit card data, calls and texts At this point, we assume that most savvy Android users know to be on the lookout for suspicious apps and download prompts, but even as smartphone users become more aware of the risks of downloading apps, the creators of the most vicious malware have adapted by releasing increasingly subtle Trojans that can do a great deal of damage behind the scenes without alerting the user.
September 25, 2017 Google doodle celebrates the historic Great American solar eclipse Google is commemorating today's (Aug. 21) epic total solar eclipse with a special animated doodle showing the moon blotting out the sun — with the help of two playful aliens, who bounce Earth's nearest neighbor back and forth with their spacecraft. (Go to the Google search page to get the full effect.)
September 25, 2017 Google may take on Surface and MacBook laptops with the Chromebook Pixel Google may have moved over some of its Project Bison plans to a newly rumored Chromebook Pixel laptop. If true, it would mean new competition for the likes of Apple's MacBooks and Microsoft's Surface range.
September 25, 2017 Walmart partners with Google for voice shopping Hundreds of thousands of Walmart products can be ordered using Google Assistant or Google Home starting next month.
September 25, 2017 500+ Google Play apps hit by ad-related malware The apps containing the malicious Igexin ad SDK received more than 100 million downloads.
September 25, 2017 Google tool for hate crimes questioned by conservative media Google is attempting to help reporters find hate crime stories with machine learning – though it remains to be seen how impartial the effort is.
September 25, 2017 Google built an entire fake city to test the AI of its driverless cars The self-driving car race is really heating up, with several tech companies zooming towards the finish line. Waymo is using a fake city in the California desert to simulate real-life situations that human drivers confront every day on American roads and highways.
