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AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru.Kimberly White | Getty ImagesEmployees from Google and other organizations are asking Google for answers about how it handled the departure of renown researcher Timnit Gebru in an online petition that had more than 2,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon.Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher, technical…

Nearly 800 Google employees have joined a solidarity campaign in support of one of the company’s top female executives, a known advocate for diversity in the industry who said she was fired after what her boss described as a dispute over a research paper.The executive, Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of…

The U.S. labour board dunks on Google for allegedly spying on workers who were organizing employee protests and firing them, LinkedIn gets chatty about business travel, and a COVID vaccine supply chain gets targeted by hackers.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Friday,…

Google is set to win conditional European Union approval for its US$2.1bil (RM8.56bil) takeover of health tracker Fitbit Inc this month, people familiar with the discussions said. The deal could be approved as soon as next week after national competition authorities give their opinion, said the people who asked not…

Synopsis"The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to use every tool at our disposal to address the challenges and opportunities before us," Google India Country Manager & VP, Sajay Gupta, said at the 'ABP Infocom - The Next Normal'. Getty ImagesKOLKATA: Google India on Thursday said artificial intelligence alone can add…

The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, mapped roughly 3,000,000 galaxies within only 300 hours. This Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of star-like points map are distant galaxies. CSIRO…

Google Maps has received a new community feed located in the app’s Explore tab, making it easier for users to check out what’s going on in their city, browse the latest reviews, see posts and photos from other users, and more. Google says the community feed will also include articles…

The feature is rolling out now to all users on Android and iOS Google is rolling out a new community feed in the ‘Explore’ section of Maps that allows you to stay up to date on what’s happening in your city. Altogether, the feed provides you with the latest reviews,…

As we finish up the unforgettable year that is 2020, you’re going to see everyone start reminiscing about the various geeky distractions they enjoyed during what was otherwise an anxiety-filled year. Google is one of the first ones out of the gate with its list of the best Android apps…

In recent years, machines have become almost as good as humans, and sometimes better, in a wide range of abilities — for example, object recognition, natural language processing and diagnoses based on medical images.And yet machines trained in this way still make mistakes that humans would never fall for. For…