Google Maps is going to test a new social feature in which users can follow Local Guides to help discover restaurants and other business locations, according to a report by TechCrunch. The guides are members of the Maps community that review and posts pictures of...
Google‘s recent announcement that it is buying Fitbit is leading some users to ditch the device. “I’m not only afraid of what they can do with the data currently, but what they can do with it once their AI advances in 10 or 20 years,”...
The antitrust investigation into Google will be expanded to include the tech giant’s search and Android businesses. In September, 50 attorneys general announced that they were launching an investigation into whether Google has abused its position in the online advertising market. The probe is being...
Google has been in the hot seat this week over allegations that it was using millions of people’s health data to feed and build its own artificial intelligence (AI) health tools. The news, reported in The Wall Street Journal on Monday (Nov. 11), prompted an...
Google revealed its latest plans for the web at the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco on Monday (Nov. 11), including offering its users instantaneous experiences. Dion Almaer, Google director of engineering, said the company wants to “make loading disappear, for all our users,” according...
Google is currently collecting and using millions of people’s healthcare data without informing them, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The company is calling the initiative “Project Nightingale” and it involves data from millions across 21 states in the U.S. The company...
Google is introducing the Google Play Points rewards program in the United States, the company announced on Monday (Nov. 4), according to reports. The program has already been launched in Japan and Korea, and millions of people have already enrolled, Google said in a blog...
The VP of Google Health has revealed that his focus for the division is on its search capabilities. Speaking at HLTH, a health care conference in Las Vegas, David Feinberg said that Google Health wants to make it easier for doctors to search medical records,...
Google filed a lawsuit on Thursday (Oct. 31) against the attorney general of Texas, asking a court to protect against confidential business information becoming public in the course of an investigation, according to a report by Reuters. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading an...