Google employees protest secret work on censored search engine for China
The internal activism presents another obstacle for Google’s potential return to China eight years after the company publicly withdrew from the country in protest of...
For a return to China, Google is reportedly building a censored search engine
Google withdrew from China in 2010 to protest the country’s censorship. Now the internet giant is working on a search engine that complies with Chinese...
Google promises its AI will not be used for weapons
But the company said it will continue to work with governments and the military.
Google workers urge CEO to pull out of Pentagon AI project
Thousands of employees have protested Google’s involvement in a project using technology that could help target drone strikes. The protest reflects a culture clash that...
Uber’s self-driving cars struggled long before a woman was fatally hit
Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous-car projects.
Waymo v. Uber trial opens with a battle of sports metaphors
In opening arguments Monday, lawyers for Waymo, the self-driving-car unit of Google parent Alphabet, said Uber took a shortcut to get ahead in the autonomous...
Alexa, we’re still trying to figure out what to do with you
Most people using virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa aren’t using them to do much more than they could with the old clock/radio.