Google CEO 'Lord Farquaad' lambasted for giant pay raise after 12,000 layoffs

It's been a tough year for tech, but even as Google laid off 12,000 employees, CEO Sundar Pichai got a substantial pay raise, earning him the nickname "Lord Farquaad."

Wesley Hilliard 3 years ago 33

Google rolls out support for passkeys across its services

Ahead of World Password Day, Google now allows users to use passkeys to sign into their Google Accounts on all major platforms.

Amber Neely 3 years ago 1

Apple and Google are working together to reduce AirTag & other tracker stalking

Apple and Google are partnering to make it harder for tracking beacons like AirTag to be used for stalking, by proposing a standard to prevent misuse.

Malcolm Owen 3 years ago 21

Google in retreat, halts construction of 80 acre mega campus

As Google's fortunes have fallen, the company appears to have backed off construction of a San Jose, California "mega-campus" that it lobbied hard for, starting in 2019.

Mike Wuerthele 3 years ago 14

One Nest thermostat is finally getting Matter, others aren't

Google is rolling out its Matter support for the 2020 Nest thermostat, meaning that it can be controlled over any Matter-certified smart home system, including HomeKit.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 0

Google Bard: Adequate, but Microsoft Bing blows it away

Bard is ostensibly designed to leverage Google's massive advantage in search with an AI chatbot. The problem is, Google's offering is worse in nearly every regard versus Microsoft's Bing.

Malcolm Owen 3 years ago 15

Apple & Google aren't happy about dinosaur and alien porn on Kindle book store

Amazon has been warned by both Apple and Google about children being able to find pornography on the Kindle app through the App Store and Google Play Store.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 6

Samsung considering Microsoft's AI-powered Bing as default search engine over Google

As a result of Microsoft's recent success with artificial intelligence, Samsung is now thinking about replacing Google as the default search engine on its devices.

Andrew Orr 3 years ago 13

Sundar Pichai says that Chat AI is coming to Google Search soon

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company will integrate AI chatbot technology into its regular search features, though won't say if it will use its error-prone Bard system.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 5

Google hit by $4 billion lawsuit from UK publishers

On top of a US Department of Justice suit, and another in the UK, more publishers are accusing Google of using its dominance to limit what revenue they could make from online ads.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 4

Publishers demand to be paid for AI using their work

ChatGPT, Bard, and all AI tools are trained on existing work, and quote that work without the originators being paid or cited in most cases — and publishers say this can't continue.

William Gallagher 3 years ago 20

No, Google Bard is not trained on Gmail data

Google's large language model tool named Bard says that it was trained with Gmail — but Google has denied that is the case.

Wesley Hilliard 3 years ago 17

ChatGPT watch out: You can now chat to Google Bard

Google is starting to roll out access to Google Bard, its AI chatbot competitor to ChatGPT that aims to use machine smarts to provide intelligent responses to queries.

Malcolm Owen 3 years ago 1

Generative AI is heading to Google Workspace & Google Cloud

Google is bringing AI tools to users in Google Workspace and opening up its AI language model called PaLM for developers and businesses.

Andrew Orr 3 years ago 6

VPN access now open to all Google One subscribers

Google is expanding access to its VPN for all Google One subscribers, but will limit its new dark web monitoring tool to the US.

Andrew Orr 3 years ago 7

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