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The inquiry, which began in November 2010, centers on whether Google has abused its dominant position as the most widely used search engine in Europe, and in particular on whether Google has favored its own products and services over those of rivals. In October, the union agreed to a tentative deal that would have required...Read More
Boston Dynamics designed the land robot “Cheetah†for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.(Photo: DARPA via AFP/Getty Images) Robert Hof, Forbes: “Google … has bought a military robot company called Boston Dynamics. … Unlike the other robot-makers, this company makes machines by the names of BigDog, Atlas and Cheetah that can variously outrun Usain Bolt...Read More
When Google acquired the robotics company Boston Dynamics, tech lovers worldwide started dropping the S-word: Skynet, a reference to the fictional artificial intelligence that nearly exterminated the human race in the “Terminator” movies. Illah Nourbakhsh, author of “Robot Futures” and professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, chuckled and said that Google’s purchase...Read More
Google acquired Boston Dynamics, an engineering and robotics-design company, in a deal that significantly enhances the search giant’s robotics expertise. The Friday acquisition brings a new dynamic to Google’s robotics efforts, led by Andy Rubin, which includes the company’s much-discussed self-driving cars, according to The New York Times. Financial terms of the deal were not...Read More
San Francisco (CNN) — A real protest, a fake Google employee, a viral video and some shiny buses have brought attention to the growing tensions between San Francisco’s moneyed tech-sector workers and the city’s working poor and middle class. Private bus lines snake through San Francisco, transporting employees in climate-controlled, Wi-Fi-enabled, cushioned comfort to their...Read More
Google’s Android logo.(Photo: Picasa) SAN FRANCISCO — Google is designing robots for the manufacturing and supply chain sectors and Andy Rubin, the executive behind the company’s successful Android mobile operating system, is leading the effort. The news was first reported by USA Today in August, however, new details emerged about the venture Wednesday. Google has...Read More
It turns out that the mysterious high-tech barge that Google is building at Treasure Island is just the first of three floating wonders the company plans to launch, at a total cost of $35 million. In a confidential budget report we obtained, barge builder Turner Construction Co. says the idea is to construct the vessels...Read More
New idea: In a drawing from a Google patent document, computer glasses project a keypad onto a user’s hand. Over the last few years, Google executives have had plenty to say about patents. According to Google, patents, particularly software patents, are mostly bogus, largely low-quality, and used in court by companies that can’t innovate to...Read More
Google’s practice of combining personal data from different Google services violates the Dutch data protection act, the Dutch data protection authority (DPA) said Thursday. But Google will not face any enforcement actions for now. In March 2012, Google introduced a new privacy policy that allows Google to share personal data across all its products and...Read More
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