Apple and Alphabet’s Google have announced a new partnership that will see the two companies work together to leverage smartphone technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus.
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Google’s “robo-caller” will notify users when calls are recorded
Earlier this month, Google revealed it’s AI-based robo-caller Duplex. The company has since faced plenty of questions about how it works.0 3020
Google founders step down from top roles
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they are stepping down from top roles at the Internet behemoth’s parent company Alphabet.
ESET boosts security for Alphabet’s Chronicle
ESET has announced it has partnered with Chronicle, an Alphabet company, to provide essential validation on security incidents and alerts within Backstory, Chronicle’s global cloud service.
European Union slaps Google with $1.7 billion antitrust fine
Internet giant Google has been handed down with another antitrust fine worth EU 1.49 billion.
Alphabet Verily stops glucose-detecting contact lens project
Alphabet Inc’s life sciences division Verily said on Friday that it was putting on hold one of its oldest and …
Alphabet shuts down Google+ social site
Alphabet Inc’s Google will shut down the consumer version of its social network Google+ following its announcement that the private profile data of at least 500,000 users may have been exposed to hundreds of external developers, Reuters reported.
Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet will no longer be technology firms
Following the biggest reorganisation of Wall Street’s industry classification system, chipmakers, cloud-computing sellers and also credit card payment firms will …
Tech companies remove accounts tied to Irananian propaganda
Social media and technology companies Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet jointly removed hundreds of accounts tied to Iranian actors, which cybersecurity …
Social media firms to testify at US House hearing
The US House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to take testimony from Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube …
Video makers criticise YouTube over subscription tool
Video makers with millions of subscribers on popular video sharing platform YouTube expressed frustration about certain alert features used by the platform, Reuters reported.