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A year ago, Google tweaked Chrome so that it can fill out your credit card details even if you don’t switch on the browser’s sync feature. Now, the tech giant is making it even easier to access your logins and payment details without having to sync across devices, so long…

Google has announced that Stadia will be available in eight new European countries over the next 24 hours. This includes Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland. As before, the price is €9.99 a month for the Stadia Pro service, with the first month being free. This doesn't…

Hey Google, play nice with Apple Music Ben Patterson/IDG Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors It’s not quite a hell-freezing-over moment but it’s close. Google and Apple have announced that Apple Music is now available to stream on all…

The European Space Agency’s satellite has provided precise new data about outer space, Google employees sign a letter demanding to know why an AI researcher was fired, and Steve Wozniak is starting another company, 45 years after co-founding Apple with Steve Jobs.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now.…

Photo: Kimberly White / Stringer, Getty Images More than 1,500 Google employees and some 2,000 academic, industry, and civil society supporters have signed a petition protesting the termination of Timnit Gebru, a Black scientist and artificial intelligence ethicist who claims that she was fired by Google after she raised concerns…

It feels like browser bookmarks haven't moved on since, well, since bookmarks became a thing in browsers. A big part of the reason why people have so many browser tabs open is because bookmarks are such an inefficient way to store things we want to go back to on the…

This week, leading AI researcher Timnit Gebru was fired from her position on an AI ethics team at Google in what she claims was retaliation for sending colleagues an email critical of the company’s managerial practices. The flashpoint was reportedly a paper Gebru coauthored that questioned the wisdom of building…

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,…