When Jyotsna Kaki got a call from Google, she was stunned. She had never applied for a job with the tech giant. “I thought that getting into Google was impossible for me,” said Kaki, 33, who is blind. But it wasn’t, thanks to her brother who passed her resume to a friend at Google. At...Read More
Open up Google Maps on your phone and, depending on where you are, you’ll see some streets, some buildings and a blue dot. That blue dot is you, in “YOU ARE HERE” form. When you move, it moves. The dot is helpful when you’re walking around outside, but if you’re indoors — in an airport,...Read More
My entire picture library is inside Google Photos, which for a long time made Apple’s Live Photos feature on my iPhone 6S Plus rather useless. Google didn’t support the format until March, so if I wanted to preserve them before then, it required converting each Live Photo to a GIF using a third-party app, saving it...Read More
Google can provide a lucrative career option for EU policy advisors, with the UK hosting the busiest revolving door, according to new research. The US-based Campaign for Accountability has identified at least 16 Googlers joining the taxpayer’s payroll, with 64 advisors taking the more lucrative path the other way by joining Google. Eric Schmidt was...Read More
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Google’s self-driving cars may become a more familiar sight in the Detroit area as it opens a new test center.(Photo: Google) SAN FRANCISCO – Google’s self-driving cars are getting some attitude. Company engineers have been working on teaching their autonomous vehicles the subtle – and often obnoxious -Â art of honking, according to Google’s May self-driving...Read More
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary — as part of a new “code of conduct” aimed at combating hate speech and terrorist propaganda across the EU. The...Read More
PARIS Analysis of data seized by investigators in last week’s raid of Google’s (GOOGL.O) Paris headquarters could possibly take years, French financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette said on Sunday. Dozens of French police raided Google’s offices on Tuesday, escalating an investigation over suspected tax evasion. “We have collected a lot of computer data,” Houlette said in...Read More
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If you want to know why French authorities conducted a dramatic, early morning raid of Google’s Paris, France, offices, you need to look at Ireland. On Tuesday, French authorities sent in dozens of tax officials who searched Google’s offices at 8 Rue de Londres, Paris, for evidence of tax fraud. The surprise raid was conducted as...Read More
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