
Google to change AI ethics procedures
Staff revolt after two professors are fired
Google will change procedures before July for reviewing its scientists' work, to quell a staff revolt over the integrity of its artificial intelligence (AI) research.

Samsung updates Android for longer than Google
Four years
Samsung is now offering four years of security updates on many of its Android devices which is longer than the three years offered by Google on its Pixel.

Church of AI closes
Way of the Future wants to move money where it matters
The first church of artificial intelligence has shut its conceptual doors.

Google fires another ethics scientist
Battle of Essex ethics
Google appears to have fired scientist Margaret Mitchell after weeks of being under investigation for moving thousands of files outside the company amid a battle over research freedom and diversity.

US should copy Australia - and force Google to pay for news
Microsoft’s idea
Software King of the World Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia's plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for links to news content.

Google links US to France
France immediately surrenders
Google, together with its partner SubCom, today announced that the company's privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast is now operational.

Google’s cloud lost billions
We thought it was supposed to be a money spinner
Google's cloud business reported operating loss of $5.61 billion in 2020. It brought in $13.06 billion in revenue for the year.

Ford teams up with Google
Wants AI and cloud
Ford has said it is writing a cheque for software, artificial intelligence and cloud computing offered by Google to develop new consumer services and modernise internal operations.

Google makes discrimination case go away
$3.8 million to settle discrimination allegations.
Google will spend $3.8 million, including $2.6 million in back pay, to settle allegations that it underpaid women and unfairly passed over women and Asians for job openings, the US Department of Labour said.

Microsoft is ready to replace Google
At least in Oz
Software giant Microsoft is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.