Google Fiber to cancel hundreds of Kansas City installations

Google Fiber, Alphabet's gigabit internet service provider, has been informing hundreds of Kansas City residents that they won't be getting their ultra high speed internet service after all. Cancelling these installations is yet another setback for Fiber, which has had a very slow roll-out and recent financial issues.

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Google to revamp policies, hire staff after UK ad scandal

Google vowed on Tuesday to police its websites better by ramping up staff numbers and overhauling its policies after several companies deserted the internet giant for failing to keep their adverts off hate-filled videos.

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Twitter software helps find, ban users advocating violence

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had stepped up efforts to rid its social network of posts from users advocating political or religious violence, and was increasingly using software to find them rather than relying on reports from users or governments.

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Minnesota judge grants warrant for a whole town's search history

Search warrants to access a suspect's search history aren't uncommon. Search warrants to access metadata from an entire cell tower are becoming more and more popular, too. What isn't common though, is a search warrant for the internet history of an entire town. While this sounds like something from the "what not to do" chapter in a law textbook, it is happening right now in the town of Edina, Minnesota.

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EU authorities demand changes from Facebook, Google, Twitter

Social media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc will have to amend their terms of service for European users within a month or face the risk of fines, a European Commission official said on Friday.

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UK to question Google after advertisements appear alongside extremist videos

Britain on Friday will question executives from Google over why advertisements marketing the government's services were appearing alongside videos carrying hate speech and extremist content on its YouTube website.

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Google moves forward with plans to build 18-acre, 595,000-square-foot campus in Mountain View

Google has received what will likely be the final wave of approvals needed to create a signature campus in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California.

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Google touts new cloud computing clients; analysts skeptical

Alphabet Inc's Google is making progress in taking on cloud computing leaders Amazon.com Incand Microsoft Corp, executives said on Wednesday, as the search engine company stakes more of its future on the cloud as a new source of growth.

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Google reported by Danish watchdog for unlimited data storage

A Danish consumer watchdog has reported Alphabet Inc's Google to the Danish Data Protection Agency for potentially breaking privacy laws by not capping the amount of time personal data is stored on Google's servers, the watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Turkey's competition board opens investigation into Google

Turkey's Competition Board said on Monday it had opened an investigation to determine whether Google had violated the country's competition law.

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Google Invites Open Source Devs to Give E2EMail Encryption a Go

Google last week released its E2EMail encryption code to open source as a way of pushing development of the technology.

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"Premium" Pixel successor confirmed for this year

With most companies releasing a new version of their flagship smartphones every year, it was expected that Google would follow the trend by unveiling the Pixel 2 in 2017.

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Google Assistant begins rolling out to millions of Android phones

Google has removed the restriction on what devices can use Google Assistant, opening up the doors for hundreds of millions of Android devices to use the company's excellent voice-assisted AI tool.

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Google's digital assistant comes to new Android phones

Alphabet Inc’s Google announced on Sunday that it will bring its digital assistant to smartphones running the latest versions of its Android operating system, vastly expanding its reach.

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Google API that detects insults, harassment and abusive comments is now available to developers

The intent of online forums and message boards is to foster the sharing of ideas regarding a particular topic although as anyone that has scrolled past a story or video will tell you, things often turn from amicable to flat out vicious in the blink of an eye.

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Waze will expand carpooling service to more U.S. and Latin American cities

Following a successful trial run in Israel and San Francisco, Google is expanding Waze’s ride sharing program to several U.S. and Latin American cities over the next few months.

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Google's Project Fi starts testing Voice over LTE support

Google’s Project Fi has a number of forward thinking features, such as the ability to seamlessly switch between networks depending on the best available signal, using your data allowances abroad without paying any extra roaming charges, and even being credited back for whatever data you don’t use in a monthly cycle.

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Google's AI can now play along with you on a virtual piano

Last year, Google released a 90-second piano melody created by Magenta, an open-source project that uses the TensorFlow AI engine to try and produce art and music. Now, members of the public can test the technology with an intelligent, piano-playing web app called A.I Duet.

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Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France

Social media companies Facebook, Google and a group of news organizations launched an initiative on Monday to tackle fake news stories in France, with the media in the spotlight as the country's presidential election approaches.

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge

A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp .

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