Jaikumar Vijayan

Do you have a headache or a sore throat, and you’re not quite sure what’s causing it? Google may have an answer for you. In the next few days, the company will roll out a new feature in Search that will let users ask Google about specific symptoms they might be experiencing or want to […]

The father of a victim of last year’s deadly terror attacks in Paris has sued Google, Facebook and Twitter for permitting groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS) to use their platforms to spew extremist propaganda. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District Court of California, lawyers for Reynaldo Gonzalez […]

Google’s office in Zurich will be home to a new dedicated research group focused on advancing the company’s ambitions in the machine-intelligence arena. The group will work on finding ways to improve the company’s machine-learning infrastructure and developing products that put the technology to practical use. As part of the machine-learning research, the group will […]

Dallas could become the third city in Texas to receive Google’s Fiber high-speed Internet service. The company has begun preliminary talks with officials to scope out the work involved in bringing the gigabit service to the city. As part of the process, Google will work with officials to get details on the city’s topography and […]

Enterprise users of Google Apps for Work now have a new tool that the company says will help them search more easily through and find information from Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, Groups and other applications. Google Springboard, announced this week, will also assist users by proactively serving up “actionable” information and recommendations relevant to their […]

Google appears unlikely to win any new friends with its decision to come out publicly in favor of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a widely controversial trade agreement that is in the works between the United States and 11 other countries. In a blog post June 10, Google Senior Vice President and General Counsel Kent Walker […]

U.S. Cellular has become the third carrier to partner with Google on its Project Fi wireless service initiative. The partnership will significantly expand the 4G LTE network coverage available to Project Fi customers, which currently comprises owners of the company’s Nexus smartphones and tablets. U.S. Cellular provides service to customers in 23 states. Ninety-nine percent […]

Researchers from Google’s DeepMind group and at the University of Oxford are collaborating on a project to develop what amounts to a kill switch for preventing artificial intelligence systems from going rogue, like the iconic HAL 9000 system in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” A paper, titled “Safely Interruptible Agents,” describing the effort will be presented […]

Starting this week, Google will use data from Google Maps to enrich a user’s existing contact data in Google Contacts. When a user enters a business phone number in Google Contacts, the app will see if a match for that number exists in Google Maps. If it does, data from Maps, such as the physical […]

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review Google’s appeal of a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming the company misled thousands of California advertisers. The court’s refusal June 6 to consider Google’s petition means the case could move ahead as a class-action suit as […]