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
MOUNTAIN VIEW — In a harsh warning letter made public Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered Google (GOOG)-backed 23andme to stop selling its widely used genetic test to consumers because the company has failed for four years to prove the product is medically useful, and the agency fears it could endanger lives. In...Read More
This week, Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, was quoted as saying during a speech in Washington: “We can end government censorship in a decade. The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.” Earlier this week, we at greatfire.org successfully unblocked the Reuters Chinese website, which had been blocked on 15 November. We also unblocked...Read More
Google’s top execs are using the company’s private fleet of jets to fly to some of the world’s most exotic vacation spots — and taxpayers appear to be footing part of the bill. When they aren’t grounded at NASA’s Moffett Field, the search engine’s jets guzzle government fuel to carry Google’s billionaire bosses to Tahiti,...Read More
How in the world can one of the smartest companies on the planet end up posting a satellite photograph of a slain teenager lying dead in a dusty lot next to a railroad spur in Richmond? It makes you want to scream at Google (GOOG): What were you thinking? It makes you want to wrap...Read More
DJ and USC artist-in-residence Young Guru tests new music features of Google Glass(Photo: Google) Story Highlights New command, ‘OK Glass…listen to’ lets you listens to tunes from Google Play Music New stereo earbuds plug into Glass, come in five colors People in the music industry say Glass is helping them do more things on the...Read More
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