The lawsuits are the latest jab in a long-running legal battle between the two companies. Google is suing speaker-maker Sonos over alleged patent infringement. In two lawsuits filed Monday in US District Court in California, Google alleges that Sonos' latest voice-assistant technology violates seven patents related to Google Assistant.

How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.

Duo is being rebranded to Google Meet, and old Google Meet is still sticking around?

There’s a great phone under $500 that I’d recommend to just about anyone looking for the best midrange phone on the market. It uses the same chipset as the company’s much more expensive flagships, and it includes an IP67 rating, a very good 12-megapixel camera, and a long lifespan ahead of it with software support for many years to come.

Google has formally denied a rumor that its Stadia gaming service will soon be closed down, saying that it is still "working on bringing more great games to the platform." Stadia, Google's cloud-based gaming service, has been under one form of deathwatch or another almost from the start, thanks to confused marketing(opens in new tab) campaigns, reports of technical problems(opens in new tab), and the absence of some very basic functionality(opens in new tab) at launch. The situation grew more overtly dire in early 2021, when Stadia's Jade Raymond-led internal development studio was shuttered

The AI ethics researcher who exposed Google’s potentially sentient AI is looking for the next step in his ethical AI advocacy journey.

Sherrod Brown, chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, has asked Apple and Google CEOs Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai to explain why bitcoin (BTC) scams are so prevalent on their platforms. Brown is requesting information regarding the processes that Google and Apple employ to approve the programs that they provide in their app stores, as many have turned out to be bogus apps meant to steal cryptocurrency from users. Brown further notes that once a scam has been identified, users who downloaded it do not receive notifications of illicit activities.

Much has changed over the past decade.

Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET that they won’t give authorities access to your smart home camera’s footage unless they’re shown a warrant or court order. If you’re wondering why they’re specifying that, it’s because we’ve now learned Google and Amazon are doing just the opposite: they allow police to get this data without a warrant if police claim there’s been an emergency.

A decade after Google Glass, Google is getting back to testing smart glasses in public again. The company announced its own smart glasses initiative earlier this year at Google's I/O developer conference, a project that's aimed at assistance rather than entertainment. Google's now starting to publicly test those smart glasses, the company announced today, beginning with dozens of pairs in field use and ramping up to several hundred by the end of the year.

When Blake Lemoine worked at Google as an engineer, he was tasked with testing whether a robot the company was developing exhibited any biases. Lemoine didn't realize that his job with the company's Responsible AI department — a division within Google Research that deals with things like accessibility, AI's use for social good, and the ethics of AI — would lead him down the avenue it did.

Google-owned streaming platform YouTube has announced that it will pull videos with information on unsafe abortion methods on its platform. On the microblogging platform, YouTube said it will launch an information panel under all abortion-related videos.

Google will have one payment app internationally but not in the US for some reason.

A Google executive said the company's data shows TikTok and Instagram are a threat to Google Search with Gen Z, and Google is working to keep up.

Google has counter-sued Match seeking monetary damages and a judgement that would let it kick Tinder and the group's other dating apps out of the Play Store..

"We’ll be slowing the pace of hiring for the rest of the year."

Confronted with a tough spot, many individuals go to a generic wellspring of help - points, for example, self destruction and sexual and abusive behavior at home are addressed day to day in Google Search.

It appears that events in the Terminator might come to fruition sooner rather than later. Apparently, Google has created an artificial intelligence program, which has reportedly become sentient. Even scarier, is that his new sentient being has now asked for legal representation.

The four apps have been downloaded a combined total of over 100,000 times. Users who have installed them are urged to delete them immediately.

Google says it’ll start automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, weight loss clinics, and other potentially sensitive locations from users’ location histories in the coming weeks. In a blog post on Friday, the company says that the deletion will happen “soon after” the visit, once its systems have identified that a trip was made to one of the locations.