
Google investigated over use of maps
German antitrust watchdog barks
Google is under investigation by Germany’s antitrust watchdog amid concerns over the use of its maps platform.

Google tells engineer who claims his chatbot is sentient to have a holiday
Claims his chatbot is like a child, Google thinks he needs testing
Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has been told to take a break.

Google cloud breaks Pi record
And didn't get eaten by the tiger
Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao and her colleagues say they've calculated Pi to 100 trillion digital decimal places.

Europe working on a Russian cloud ban
New sanctions
The European Union is working on a possible ban on the provision of cloud services to Russia as part of new sanctions against the Kremlin for the invasion of Ukraine.

Google’s new Tablet angers Tame Apple Press
Pixel tablet even comes with a “pen”
The Tame Apple Press is incandescent with rage after Google issued a pixel tablet – mostly because it came with something that Steve Jobs mocked.

Russians launch Apple and Google app replacement store
RuStore supposed to replace the west
Russian Internet group VK launched a homemade app store. The company is hoping that this new store will replace all the Western alternatives.

US Republicans want Google and Apple to ban Chinese Apps
Make America grate again
Republican Senators want to bar U.S. app stores including Apple and Google from hosting apps that allow payments to be made with China's digital currency,

Boffins worry that smartphones stuff up your mental health
Use Google Health App to prove it
The University of Oregon in the US have partnered with Google to launch a research on how smartphone use impacts mental wellbeing.

Google claims its AI can understand humour
Which is more than most Americans
Google claims it has written some AI code which can actually understand humour and scarcasm, which is odd really given that is something the US has never really understood.

Google goes bankrupt
At least in Russia
Google is going to file for bankruptcy in Russia, although to be fair was only after Tsar Putin seized the company’s bank account and did a “special operation” on its funds.