
Trust US, social media corporations say
Opinion Well, let’s take that with a pinch of salt
The leading social media companies in the world - all American mega corporations - have pledged to suppress so-called “fake news” and replace the stories with “geek news”.

Google working out how to kill Intel's ME
Wants to close a security hole
Google has said that it is looking at ways to shut down Intel's Management Engine (ME) technology.

Alphabet backs moves to out political advert buyers
Curtail “foreign abuse and influence” in elections.
Google has told US election regulators ithat it “strongly supports” tightening rules on online political advertising to stop foreign powers gaming US elections.

Bait and switch sites fall to might of Chrome
Stop you being forwarded to another site
Google's Chrome browser is going to kill off redirects that send you to a website you didn't expect.

Google abandoned features which gave drivers control
They were not awake enough
Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo abandoned developing features that required drivers to take control in dangerous situations because drivers tended to nod off when in auto-pilot mode and were not ready to take over.

Google boss drops everything to fix emoji
Perspective – Pichai has heard of it
While there are a lot of things that Google CEO Sundar Pichai needs to fix in the search engine outfit, apparently his most pressing concern is Google's version of the cheeseburger emoji.

Google and Cisco team up on cloud
Kubernetes and Istio service mesh
Google and Cisco have teamed up on the hybrid cloud.

Tech giants spend fortune buying US politicians
Buy one get another free
US tech giants are spending a small fortune on "lobbying" politicians and the situation is getting worse.

Microsoft’s Open Source cloud slap to Google
Azure Container Service built on Kubernetes
Microsoft has unveiled the Azure "Container Service", a new service for the Azure cloud computing platform that's built on Kubernetes.

Google scores own goal with Pixel 2XL
OLED Screen issues
The Tame Apple Press is celebrating after Google's new flagship Android phone is officially out and its new OLED screen appears to have display problems.