Google officially announces Stadia, a game streaming service
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Running on 10.7 TFLOPs AMD GPU and custom x86 CPU

At the GDC 2019, Google has officially announced its own game streaming service, called Stadia. Powered by AMD hardware, Stadia promises to completely change the game streaming landscape.

Google paid $45 million to alleged “sex pests”
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The cost of making things go away

Google has paid millions to former directors who were accused of being sex pests at work and shareholders and staff are furious.

Google researchers find new flaws in Mac programming
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BuggyCow eats
Mac operating system

Google's bug-hunting researchers known as Project Zero have revealed a fresh zero-day vulnerability in macOS called "BuggyCow".

Google AI team comes up with deep learning library
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GPipe open sourced

Google's AI research division has open-sourced GPipe, a library for "efficiently" training deep neural networks (layered functions modelled after neurons) using Lingvo, a TensorFlow framework for sequence modelling.

Google employees discover censored search project
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Despite management assurances, they didn't kill the dragonfly

Google employees have found out that despite the company’s assurances it is developing a plan to launch a censored search engine in China.

Google rolls back ad-blocker autocracy
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Backtracking in the face of evidence

Google has rolled back plans to ban rival ad-blocking extensions from its Chrome software after it was revealed that its claims that they were a network hit proved bogus.

Germany looks at Google tax
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Just for foreigners

Germany’s finance ministry is looking at a 15 percent special tax on online advertising revenue collected by foreign internet companies such as Google or Facebook.

Google pays EU more in fines than in tax
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Must be cheaper not to pay

Search engine Google is paying the EU more in fines than it does in tax.

Google plans to bump off the URL
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And make a fortune

Search engine outfit Google's plan to make a fortune increase security by bumping off the URL is gathering pace.

France orders Google to surrender $57 million
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First head rolls under GDPR rules

French regulators have fined Google nearly $57 million for violating Europe’s strict new data privacy rules.