#Google Maps is adding COVID19 vaccine sites

#Google Maps is adding COVID19 vaccine sites

“#Google Maps is adding COVID19 vaccine sites” With COVID19 vaccines beginning to make their way around the world, there’s a glimmer of hope for this pandemic to end sometime within the next year. Searches for “vaccines near me” have increased fivefold, according to Google, so in the coming weeks, the company will begin to make…

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#Google to use some offices as COVID-19 vaccine sites

#Google to use some offices as COVID-19 vaccine sites

“#Google to use some offices as COVID-19 vaccine sites” Google plans to turn some of its offices into COVID-19 vaccine clinics as part of its efforts to help people get their shots. The tech titan is working with health-care provider One Medical — which counts Google as one of its biggest investors and customers —…

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#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project

#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project

“#Alphabet scraps ‘moonshot’ Loon internet balloon project” Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used high-flying balloons to bring internet to remote areas of the globe, will be winding down its…

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#Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia

#Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia

“#Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia” Google on Friday threatened to shut off its search engine in Australia if officials there approve a law requiring it to pay news publishers for their content. The Silicon Valley titan escalated its aggressive fight against the proposal, saying the measure would “break the way Google…

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#Alphabet bursts its balloon-powered internet plans

#Alphabet bursts its balloon-powered internet plans

“#Alphabet bursts its balloon-powered internet plans” Alphabet’s moonshot idea of beaming internet connectivity from giant balloons is floating back down to earth. The Google parent company announced that it’s shutting down the Loon project because the business model is unsustainable. “The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” said Astro Teller,…

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#Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts

#Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts

“#Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts” Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the leadup to the presidential election and expanded their efforts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But Apple and Google, among others, have left open a major loophole…

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#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

“#Trump pardons convicted ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski” President Trump pardoned a former Google engineer who was convicted of what a federal judge called the “biggest trade secret crime” he had ever seen. Anthony Levandowski was sentenced to 18 months in prison last August for stealing documents from Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, before he went…

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