Google fights Amazon on assistant front
Published in News


Sorry, can I hear an echo?Sorry, can I hear an echo?


A report suggests that Google is so alarmed by Alexa's dominance on the home intelligence assistant front that it is pouring vast amounts of energy to play catch up with Amazon.

Microsoft now more valuable than Alphabet
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Return of the Vole

Microsoft's value has surged 40 percent over the past 12 months to become more valuable than Alphabet.

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys
Published in Mobiles
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 11:37

Google sued for tracking Apple fanboys


It cared what they did, apparently.

Google is being sued in the UK high court for as much as $4.3 billion for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users.

Microsoft and Google find new CPU bug
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 11:27

Microsoft and Google find new CPU bug


Fix will slow you down even more

Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown and Spectre flaws that were revealed earlier this year.

Google is now allowed to be evil
Published in News
Monday, 21 May 2018 11:01

Google is now allowed to be evil


Joins the dark side

The search engine Google has finally admitted that being a US corporation means being evil.

Google might have faked its AI demo
Published in AI
Monday, 21 May 2018 10:14

Google might have faked its AI demo


And the moon landings never happened

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that Google’s AI demo last week was a fake.

Google faces Indian mutiny
Published in News
Friday, 18 May 2018 10:39

Google faces Indian mutiny


Google to appeal Indian antitrust ruling

Google has said an Indian antitrust ruling that found it was guilty of search bias could cause “irreparable” harm and reputational loss to the company.

Google employees quit over drone “evil”
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Project Mavan was evil too far

Google’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot programme known as Project Maven has angered its staff who have quit rather than work on it.

Google could be working on Pixel smartwatches
Published in Mobiles


Could be the new Qualcomm Wear SoC

According to the latest rumours, Google is working on a Pixel-branded smartwatch, or smartwatches, which could be launched alongside the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL and 2nd-gen Pixel Buds. The word on the street is that it has the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear SoC.under the bonnet.

Chinese and US spooks use sound to control AI assistants
Published in AI


A spy in your house

For two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant.