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France's Competition Authority has fined Google 150 million euros ($166.4 million) for anti-competitive behavior, as well as having unclear advertising rules on Google Ads.  Besides paying the fine, the FCA expects Google to clarify the rules for Google Ads,…

A 31 decision Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The federal labor board ruled this week that employers can block workers from using email to organize, in a decision that companies, including Google, have asked for. The National Labor Relations Board…

Google Photos has received several big updates recently, but now the app has a full-on messaging service that you can use to swap photos and carry on conversations between your contacts. Google says this isnt meant to replace or compete with other messaging…

Over the years, Google’s various whitepapers, detailing how the company solves specific problems at scale, have regularly spawned new startup ecosystems and changed how other enterprises think about scaling their own tools. Today, the company is publishing a …

Google has fired another worker-activist, Kathryn Spiers. Spier, who worked on the platform security team, was generally tasked with writing code for browser notifications to automatically notify employees or guidelines and company policies while surfing the …

At 19, Kathryn Spiers was hired on as one of the youngest Google security engineers in the company. Less than two years later, shes been abruptly terminated for what she believes is her involvement in internal activism. Googles firing of Spiers is the latest…

The latest termination at the company Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has fired another employee following a showing of internal activism, marking the latest in a series of controversial terminations at the search giant. Kathryn Spiers, a se…

A Buddy Pass gives a friend three months' free use of the Stadia Pro service. Stadia Pro is Stadia's take on Xbox Live Gold, normally costing $10 per month and offering bonuses like 4K/HDR streaming, 5.1 sound and access to free games. The first wave of passe…

Back in 2018, the competition board ordered Google to change its software distribution agreements in order to allow consumers to choose a different search engine for their Android devices. It gave Google six months to make the changes and also slapped it with…

Electric cars might be the way of the future, but the variations in charging plugs across different brands and models make finding a compatible electric vehicle (EV) charging station a lot more difficult than simply pulling up to a gas station. Thankfully, Go…