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Google Launches a New Medical App—Outside the US
Billions of times each year, people turn to Google’s web search box for help figuring out what’s wrong with their…
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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Google Hopes AI Can Turn Search Into a Conversation
Google often uses its annual developer conference, I/O, to showcase artificial intelligence with a wow factor. In 2016, it introduced…
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Waymo Rescues Autonomous Taxi Stumped by Traffic Cones
Photo: Glenn Chapman (Getty Images) The taxi hurt itself in confusion! A comedy of errors unfolded after one of Waymo’s…
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Black and Queer AI Groups Say They’ll Spurn Google Funding
Three groups focused on increasing diversity in artificial intelligence say they will no longer take funding from Google. In a…
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Big Tech CEOs Waffle on Banning the 12 Major Anti-Vaxxers
Anti-vax conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Berlin in August 2020.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) After a report from the…
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