To anyone whose YouTube pages started to look strange today, youâre not alone: with little fanfare, the site pushed a change that now adapts its video player to match the aspect ratio of your content.
If you already rely on ridesharing services to run errands or grab groceries, a self-driving car that shuttles you to pick up your pre-bagged tailgate party snacks may sound like a no-brainer. And thatâs essentially what Waymo is up to: In Phoenix, Arizona, Waymo is expanding its self-driving car program by targetingâŚ
 Facebook, which earlier this year abandoned plans to build its own passenger jet-sized, solar powered drones to provide internet access in remote stretches of the world, is once again pursuing plans to launch satellites to do the job instead.
Considering Androidâs massive mobile market share, this was pretty much an inevitability. But today it finally happened for real: The EU slapped Googleâs parent company Alphabet with a record fine of nearly $5.1 billion for violating European antitrust regulations.
Top House Republicans of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent the CEOs of Apple and Alphabet letters today, requesting they answer questions about the collection of data through their devicesâsuch as emails, location data, and usersâ voices.
Googleâs unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase âdonât be evil.â But thatâs over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.
If you own a Nest product, weâve got bad news: Last night, as you performed your evening ablutions and got ready for bed, Nest devices went offline, disabling some integral features in certain devices. But hey, if youâre a Nest user, this probably isnât the first time youâve had to deal with something like this.
Googleâs parent company, Alphabet, is opening up its free denial-of-service protection program to political groups in the United States, a move that will help political campaigns defend themselves against online attacks during the upcoming election season.
On April 3rd, a woman named Nasim Aghdam entered YouTubeâs main campus in San Bruno, California through a parking garage and opened fire, wounding three employees of the video-sharing platform before fatally shooting herself in the chest. Just hours before, Aghdam had been stopped by police in Mountain View.
Loretta Lee, an ex-Google engineer who filed a lawsuit against her former employer last month, posted a blog to her website Unicorn Techie today decrying the state of gender inclusion in software engineering and the tech industry in general. âThe reason there are so few women in tech,â she writes, âis because it sucksâŚ
Following the mass school shooting which killed 17 people and wounded over a dozen others in Parkland, Florida this month, YouTube launched a campaign to use some of its 10,000 new moderators to somewhat thin out the ranks of the conspiracy peddlers and far-right nuts which have become rampant across the site. Though âŚ
On Wednesday, the Center for Responsive Politics released updated data on who is spending the most money lobbying the federal government. The list wasnât unlike yearâs pastâindustry groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Realtors prevailed. But what we are seeing is an uptick inâŚ
X, the moonshot wing of Googleâs parent company Alphabet, announced today that a new cybersecurity project called Chronicle is âgraduatingâ to become a fully-fledged company. X functions as an incubator for Alphabetâs more experimental endeavors, like self-driving cars or giant balloons that deliver internetâŚ
YouTube is asking musicians who have signed up for a new partnership program in which it provides big-ticket funding for videos and promotional support to sign sweeping non-disparagement agreements, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
At 26 letters long, the English alphabet isnât the most complicated string of symbols and characters to master, even for a five-year-old. But thatâs because it has been put on a strict diet over the years that helped it slim down and shed 10 additional letters that were either deemed superfluous, redundant, or justâŚ
After six years as executive chairmanâfirst at Google, then AlphabetâEric Schmidt announced in a press release today that he will step down, taking on the role of technical advisor at the company and remaining on its board.
Whether you like it or not, self-driving cars are coming, and depending on where you live, they might already be here. Googleâs parent company Alphabet has had fully autonomous cars on the road for over a month, while Uber has its own self-driving fleet cruising the streets of Pittsburgh, with a deal to buy as many asâŚ
One of Alphabetâs crazier attempts to bring the internet to more rural and isolated areas was Project Loon. Using what is called Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC), Alphabet proved itâs possible to reliably send data wirelessly between balloons floating thousands of feet in the sky. Emboldened by the results, âŚ
YouTubeâperhaps the largest repository of free music on the planetâplans to introduce a paid music subscription service in March. What could go wrong?
