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Congress questions Facebook and Twitter officials, with Google conspicuously absent

Sep 6, 2018

Representatives from Facebook and Twitter took questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, at a hearing focused on the social media company’s political influence and management of user data, ...

Is the EU’s antitrust penalty against Google the right way to rein in tech giants?

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Jul 29, 2018

Business, Opinion, Policy, Science

Earlier this month, EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager ordered Google to stop promoting its own search engine and apps on smartphones through its Android operating system, and issued a record $5 billion fi...

AI research sheds light on how our brains navigate space

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May 20, 2018

Innovation, Science

An artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, in collaboration with researchers, is helping to shed light on how mammals such as humans navigate their environment, according to a report from S...

From Autonomous Vehicles To Blockchain, Regulatory Sandboxes Are Taking Off

Editorial Board

Mar 5, 2018

Business, Opinion, Policy

As early as 1958, when a Science Digest article rhapsodized about the possibility of drivers settling back with a good book while their car took over in “Electronic Drive” mode, people have been dreaming of aut...

New approach to UK taxes may ask more of tech giants

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Feb 22, 2018

Business, Policy, Science

The UK government is considering substantial changes to the way the Treasury taxes technology companies such as Google and Facebook. According to BBC News, officials have said that a shift to tax revenues, rath...

Former tech employees lead campaign to combat social media addiction

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Feb 6, 2018

Health, Policy, Science

A new campaign, spearheaded by a group of former employees of Google and Facebook, is pushing technology companies to address issues surrounding tech and media addiction, as part of an effort to combat “the dig...

Google’s machine learning AI discovers two new planets in NASA’s Kepler telescope data

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Dec 18, 2017

Business, Innovation, Science

NASA and Google announced Thursday that a collaboration using advanced computer analysis of existing data has discovered two new planets in distant star systems, one of which is part of the first star system fo...

How Artificial Intelligence is Taking Online Gaming by Storm

David

Oct 23, 2017

Business, Innovation, Policy, Science

In a world where smartphones, self-driving cars and the Internet are at the frontier of technological innovation, Silicon Valley has achieved a level of cultural prestige and influence that society hardly could...

Investigation and legislation are necessary to address Russian social media interference

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Oct 22, 2017

Opinion, Policy, Science

On November 1st, representatives from Google, Twitter, and Facebook will testify before congressional intelligence committees on how their services may have been taken advantage of by Russia, in efforts to infl...

Google to provide depression screening to those searching for help

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Aug 28, 2017

Business, Health, Science

On Wednesday, 23 August, a surprise partnership was announced between The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the tech company Google. In response to what has been described as an epidemic of clinica...

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