Google Stories for 2019

YouTube Goes To War With Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency 134
Baidu Has a New Trick For Teaching AI the Meaning of Language 12
Google Brain's AI Achieves State-of-the-Art Text Summarization Performance 20
Google Chrome Impacted By New Magellan 2.0 Vulnerabilities 25
Popular Messaging App ToTok Reportedly an Emirati Spy Tool 19
Multiple States Are Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Free File Marketing 36
Severed Fiber Optic Cables Disrupted Internet Access In Parts of Eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey 44
Google, Amazon, and Apple Join Forces To Develop IP-based Smart Home Connectivity Standard 43
Engineer Says Google Fired Her For Browser Pop-Up About Worker Rights 129
Google Execs Debated Getting Out of Cloud Computing Last Year, But Instead Set a Goal of Being a Top-Two Player By 2023 74
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Google Warns Turkish Partners Over New Android Phones Amid Dispute 16
Google Halts Chrome 79 Rollout After It Breaks Some Android Apps 19
Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First' 25
Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends To Watch in 2020 15
Google Maps Has Now Photographed 10 Million Miles in Street View 18
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages 14
Google Assistant Can Now Interpret 44 Languages on Smartphones 20
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 'Best Places To Work' List 54
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Google Built Its Own Tiny HDMI 2.1 Box To Jump-Start 'the Next Generation of Android TV' 23
Google Under Investigation For 'Thanksgiving Four' Firings, Allegedly Discouraging Unions 29
Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips 8
Google Halts Political Ads In Singapore As Election Looms 12
Google Founders Resign From Alphabet Leadership, Sundar Pichai Becomes CEO 49
Genius Sues Google For 'No Less Than $50M', Alleging 'Anticompetitive Practices' Over Lyrics 69
Google Photos Adds a Chat Feature To Its App 20
Google, Facebook In EU Probe Over User Data 14
Prominent Tech Execs Sign Renewed Commitment To Paris Agreement 131
'Massive Issues' Reported For Google's Indexing of JavaScript Content 53
Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act 16
Facebook Was Mystery Firm Bidding Against Google To Buy Fitbit, Report Says 27
Google Fires 4 Workers Active In Labor Organizing 125
Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia 44
YouTube Needs To Chill With Its Annoying Premium Spam 117
Mozilla's Annual Buyer's Guide Rates Amazon and Google Security Cameras 'Very Creepy' 40
New Tracking Prevention in Microsoft's Edge Will Hit Google the Hardest 64
Alphabet's Loon Balloons Will Provide Internet To Remote Parts of the Amazon Next Year 20
Google Is Terminating Google Cloud Print 64
Google Shakes Up Its 'TGIF' -- and Ends Its Culture of Openness 102
Google Will Pay Bug Hunters Up To $1.5M if They Can Hack Its Titan M Chip 21
Google To Limit Targeting of Political Ads 76
Google Earth Gets Content Creation Tools For Geography-Focused Presentations 6
Google Wants Android To Use Regular Linux Kernel 87
Google Is Putting An Algorithmic Audio News Feed On Its Assistant 22
Google and Samsung Fix Android Spying Flaw. Other Makers May Still Be Vulnerable 10
Google Stadia Review: Gaming's Streaming Future Isn't Here Yet 70
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results 115
Google Cancels Weekly All-Hands Meetings Amid Growing Workplace Tensions 57
Supreme Court Will Hear Long-Running Google and Oracle Copyright Lawsuit 60
Google Almost Made 100,000 Chest X-rays Public -- Until it Realized Personal Data Could Be Exposed 49
Google's Rollout of RCS Chat for all Android Users in the US Begins Today 84
Stadia Launch Developer Says Game Makers Are Worried 'Google Is Just Going To Cancel It' 67
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking 91
Google Reveals Stadia Launch Lineup of 12 Games 62
Google Chrome To Identify and Label Slow Websites 53
Google Wants Chrome To Offer Instantaneous and Native App-Like Experiences 45
Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans 67
Google Asks Three Outside Antivirus Firms To Start Scanning Submissions To Android's Play Store 14
Mozilla Hits Google, Facebook For 'Microtargeting' Political Ads 31
EU's Vestager Says Google's Antitrust Proposal Not Helping Shopping Rivals 8
Chrome OS 78 Rolling Out With Picture-In-Picture Support For YouTube, Split Browser/Device Settings, More 15
Google-Funded Library Programs Teaching Google-Provided Curricula 18
Chronicle, the Google Moonshot Cybersecurity Startup That Was Supposed To Completely Change the Industry, is Imploding 41
Fitbit Says Data of Its 28 Million Users Will Not Be Sold Or Used For Google Ads 56
Google Asks Three Mobile Security Firms To Help Scan Play Store Apps 13
The Original Google Pixel Will Get One Final Update In December 47
Now Googlers Are Protesting Company's Cloud Deals With Big Oil 105
With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri 65
Buying Fitbit Won't Save Google's Failing Wear OS 27
Google Contest Requires Teachers To Praise Google's CS Curriculum For Children 31
Chrome Tries APIs That Allow Changing A User's Files, Receiving SMS Verification Texts 68
Waymo's Completely Driverless Cars Are Now Picking Up Passengers 127
Google Purchases Fitbit for $2.1 Billion 52
Incognito Mode For Google Maps Arrives On Android 22
Google's Sidewalk Labs Leaked Document Reveals Company's Early Vision For Data Collection, Tax Powers, Criminal Justice 39
Google's Network Congestion Algorithm Isn't Fair, Researchers Say 20
Huawei Gave Its Blacklist Verdict By Posting 66 Percent Gain In Smartphone Shipments 134
Google Workers Sidestepping Controversial Chrome Tool Sparks Security Worries 55
Apple Just Killed Google's Killer Phone Feature 159
Google Brings Its '.new' Domains To the Rest of the Web 39
Google Search To Stop Indexing Flash Content in Late 2019 46
Google Backs San Jose Housing Project as Part of Funding Pledge 48
A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials 223
Google-owner Alphabet in Talks To Buy Fitbit, Says Reuters 32
Google Just Got Better at Understanding Your Trickiest Searches 80
The Four Major Carriers Finally Agree To Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard 117
Google Researchers Taught An AI To Recognize Smells 18
Google: Stadia Exclusives To Have Features 'Not Possible' On Home Hardware 64
Google's Play Store Gives a Worse Age Rating To Fleksy, a Gboard Rival 23
Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool To Squelch Worker Dissent 57
The Pixel 4's 90Hz Display Only Works At High Brightness Levels 29
Maker of Keyboard App Fleksy: Google Upped Age Rating Over Middle Finger Emoji 32
Alphabet Exec Blames Media For Overhyping Self-driving Cars, Even Though Google Drove the Hype 38
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing 61
Quantum Supremacy From Google? Not So Fast, Says IBM. 80
Google Lured Billions of Consumers To Its Digital Services by Offering Free Cloud Storage. That's Beginning To Change. 146
Mozilla is Sharing YouTube Horror Stories To Prod Google For More Transparency 58
Google Criticized After Voice From 'Nest' Camera Threatens to Steal Baby 125
Home Builders Ditch Nest After Google Ties Devices To Digital Assistant 46
Google Hardware Chief Says He Does Not Know Why Pixel 4 Smartphone With Snapdragon 855 Processor Can't Support 4K Video Recording at 60FPS 78
Google Clips AI-Powered Camera Has Been Discontinued 13
Google Expands Chrome's Site Isolation Feature To Android Users 6
The Simmering Debate Over Big Tech Explodes on the Democratic Debate Stage 115
Google Chief: I'd Disclose Smart Speakers Before Guests Enter My Home 102
Google's New Voice Recorder App Transcribes in Real Time, Even When Offline 27
Google Announces New Google Assistant With Huge Boost To Speed 21
Google's Auto-Delete Tools Are Practically Worthless For Privacy 39
Google Discontinues Daydream VR 52
Google Announces the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL Smartphones 66
Google's Stadia Cloud Gaming Service Will Launch on November 19 44
Would You Give Up Google For $17,000 a Year? The Federal Reserve Wants To Know 140
Google Takes AMP to the OpenJS Foundation 17
New Chrome Feature Will Use AI To Describe Unlabelled Images To The Vision-Impaired 27
Google's Next Pixelbook Is Basically a MacBook That Runs Chrome OS 44
Disgraced Google Exec Andy Rubin Quietly Left His Venture Firm Earlier This Year 48
Google Made Large Contributions To Climate Change Deniers 170
To Live or Die by Google Search Brings an Escalating Cost 91
Essential Reveals Project Gem Smartphone With Very Long, Unusual Design 89
Google Makes It Easier To Move Music and Video Streams Between Devices 15
Big ISPs Worry DNS-Over-HTTPS Could Stop Monitoring and Modifying of DNS Queries 156
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says 65
Egypt Used Google Play In Spy Campaign Targeting Its Own Citizens 12
Google Contractors Reportedly Targeted Homeless People For Pixel 4 Facial Recognition 55
Ivanka Trump and Google's CEO Announce a Tech Job Training Initiative 52
Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable 173
Google's DNS-Over-HTTPS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress 130
Google's Hyperlocal News App 'Bulletin' Is Shutting Down 18
Microsoft Brings Google Assistant Support To the Xbox One 2
The /e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available 43
Android 10 Go Edition Improves Speed and Security For Low-cost Phones 18
Google Releases Trove of Deepfake Videos So Researchers Can Help Fight Them 21
Google Contractors Officially Vote To Unionize 103
Google Wins Fight To Restrict Right-To-Be-Forgotten Ruling To EU Search Engines 66
Google Is Reducing How Much Audio It Saves For Human Review 12
Google Employees Explain How They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Abuse 218
Google Play Pass Bundles 350 Android Games and Apps For $4.99 Per Month 14
Challenging Facebook and Google, Apple's New OS Warns Users When Data Is Collected 97
Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in 'Street View' 37
Google Reportedly Attains 'Quantum Supremacy' 93
Google Is Investing $3.3 Billion To Build Clean Data Centers In Europe 24
Alphabet Partners With FedEx, Walgreens To Bring Drone Delivery To the US 15
Google Makes the Largest Ever Corporate Purchase of Renewable Energy 56
India Tells Tech Firms To Protect User Privacy, Prevent Abuse 6
Huawei's Flagship Mate 30 Pro Has Impressive Specs But No Google 58
Google is Bringing Its AI Assistant Service To People Without Internet Access 14
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Workers Have Pledged To Strike on September 20 102
Google Preps 'Smart Screenshots' Feature To Let You Search With a Screenshot 17
LastPass Bug Leaks Credentials From Previous Site 62
Google's Search Results Begin Prioritizing 'Original Reporting' 34
Google Unveils Code Completion Powered by Machine Learning in Dart SDK 20
Google To Pay $1 Billion in France To Settle Fiscal Fraud Probe 41
Google Maps Shows Sunken Car Where Missing Man's Body Was Found 37
Google One Now Backs Up Texts, 'Original Quality' Photos, and Videos on Android 28
Government Orders Google: Let Employees Speak Out 72
Google To Run DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Experiment in Chrome 104
YouTube Promised To Halt Comments on Kids Videos Already. It Hasn't. 60
Nearly Every State Is Launching An Antitrust Investigation Of Google 38
Dozens of Google Employees Say They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Harassment 186
On Apple's Response To Google's Project Zero 54
Chrome OS Bug Started Mistakenly Sending 'Final Update' Notifications 21
'Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet' 229
Google Expands Bug Bounty Programme To All Apps With Over 100M Installs 2
Feds Order Apple and Google To Hand Over Names of 10,000+ Users of Gun Scope App 123
Apple Disputes Google's Claims of a Devastating iPhone Hack 22
Huawei Eyes ProtonMail as It Searches for Gmail Alternative 32
Trusted Face Smart Unlock Method Has Been Removed From Android Devices 11
Google, Industry Try To Water Down First US Data-Privacy Law 28
Google Has Secret Webpages That Feed Your Personal Data To Advertisers, Report Says 43
Google To Pay $170 Million To Settle FTC Claims That YouTube Collected Kids Data Illegally 23
Google's Paid Search Ads Are 'Shakedown' and 'Ransom', Basecamp CEO says 120
Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update 45
Android Exploits Are Now Worth More Than iOS Exploits for the First Time 26
Feds Forced Google To Reveal All Google Users Within 100 Feet of a Bank Robbery 141
EFF Warns: 'Don't Play in Google's Privacy Sandbox' 52
The Big Levandowski: Could an Uber Engineer's Indictment Discourage Workers From Changing Jobs? 41
Google Contractors In Pittsburgh Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union 89
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case 8
Huawei's Next Phone Will Not Have Google Apps 42
Google Says Hackers Have Put 'Monitoring Implants' in iPhones For Years 68
Google To Shift Pixel Smartphone Production From China To Vietnam 78
National-Security Concerns Threaten Undersea Data Link Backed by Google, Facebook 45
Google Will Shut Down Google Hire In 2020 55
Trojan Dropper Malware Found In CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Downloads 34
Google and Dell Team Up To Take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise Laptops 76
Google Confirms Android 10 Will Fix 193 Security Vulnerabilities 31
Google Agrees To Meet With YouTubers Union Right Before Deadline 42
Google Doesn't Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore 301
Android Ditches Desserts as Q Becomes 10 117
Google Chrome Proposes 'Privacy Sandbox' To Reform Advertising Evils 56
Amazon, Microsoft Are 'Putting World At Risk of Killer AI,' Says Study 95
Google Postpones Shutdown of Hangouts For G Suite Users 13
Google DeepMind Co-Founder Placed On Leave From AI Lab 14
Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Others Launch Confidential Computing Consortium for Data Security 44
Gmail in G Suite Now Uses AI For Inline Spelling and Grammar Suggestions 25
IFTTT Warns Its Users Not To Migrate To Google Accounts 22
Google Launches Android Studio 3.5 With Improved Memory Settings, Build Speed, and Apply Changes 15
Google's Clickless Era 52
Fearing Data Privacy Issues, Google Cuts Some Android Phone Data For Wireless Carriers 24
Should HTTPS Certificates Expire After Just 397 Days? 92
Google Open-Sources Live Transcribe's Speech Engine 14
Google Plans To Remove All FTP Support From Chrome 119
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Google Criticized For Vulnerability That Can Trick Its AI Into Deactivating Accounts 49
Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of 'Extended Validation' Certificates 56
Huawei Is Working On Its Own Version of Google Maps 42
Nvidia CEO Says Google Is the Company's Only Customer Building Its Own Silicon At Scale 20
Hundreds of Thousands of People Are Using Passwords That Have Already Been Hacked, Google Says 58
LGBT Video-Makers Sue YouTube Claiming Discrimination 176
A New Way To Help Students Turn in Their Best Work 40
Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing 116
Google Workers Demand Company Not Work With Border Agencies 302
Google's Jobs Search Draws Antitrust Complaints From Rivals 23
Google Will Now Let Android Users Log In To Some Services Without A Password 26
Another Google Service Closes: Texts with Voicemail Transcripts 30
Google Launches 'Live View' AR Walking Directions For Google Maps 20
White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship 140
AMD Lands Google, Twitter as Customers With Newest Server Chip 57
Google Attempts To Solve Podcasting's Discovery Problem By Embedding Playable Episodes in Search 57
Google Pixel 4 Will Have 90Hz 'Smooth Display and DSLR Camera Attachment 56
US Appeals Court Voids Google 'Cookie' Privacy Settlement That Paid Users Nothing 68
Google Employee Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Women In Viral Memo 345
Google Pledges Carbon-Neutral Shipping, Recycled Plastic For All Devices 45
'There is No Evil Like reCAPTCHA (v3)' 259
Half of All Google Chrome Extensions Have Fewer Than 16 Installs 56
Google's Plans for Chrome Extensions 'Won't Really Help Security', Argues EFF 35
Another Breach: What Capital One Could Have Learned From Google's 'BeyondCorp' 119
Google Just Stopped Displaying 'www' and 'https' In Chrome's Address Bar 185
Alphabet Overtakes Apple To Become Most Cash-Rich Company 81
NYT Publishes Anti-Google Rant, Doesn't Mention Author Is Facebook Board Member 109
Google's New Automated Voice Service Lets You Silently Share Information With Emergency Operators 15
Google Opens Auction For Default Android Search Engine in Europe 29
Google Project Zero: 95.8% of All Bug Reports Are Fixed Before Deadline Expires 41
Google Is Testing a $4.99 App Subscription Bundle 49
Google Brings the Titan Security Key To More Countries 31
Google Reveals Fistful of Flaws In Apple's iMessage App 41
CBS News Investigation Finds Fraudulent Court Orders Used To Change Google Search Results 58
The Google Pixel 4 Will Have Built-In Radar and Unlock With a Face Scan 72
'Never-Googlers' Take Extreme Measures To Avoid Data Tracking 255
EFF Argues For 'Empowerment, Not Censorship' Online 62
Privacy-Focused Android Q Still Lets Advertisers Track You 63
In 80 Days, Google Will Require Chrome Extensions To Request 'The Least Amount of Data' 40
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google For $50 Million Over Suspension of Ad Account 236

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