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Google To Pay For Open-Source Code Security Fixes

Jeremy Kirk | Computerworld | October 10, 2013

Awards program aims to improve critical open-source tools widely used across the Internet Read More »

Google Transparency Report Highlights Just How Much We Don't Know About National Security Letters

Dan Auerbach and Eva Galperin | Electronic Frontier Foundation | March 6, 2013

In an unprecedented win for transparency, yesterday Google began publishing generalized information about the number of National Security Letters that the company received in the past year as well as the total number of user accounts affected by those requests. Read More »

Google Transparency Report Shows Rising Trend Of Government Surveillance

Katitza Rodriguez and Rebecca Bowe | Electronic Frontier Foundation | November 15, 2012

Each year, Google receives thousands of demands from governments around the world seeking information about its users. People who use any of the search engine giant’s free online services – such as Gmail, YouTube, Google+ or Blogger – leave digital footprints behind, and information relating to their accounts is increasingly sought out by law enforcement agencies. [...] Read More »

Google Ventures Shifts Focus To Health Care

Alistair Barr | WSJ.com | December 15, 2014

Google’s venture-capital arm is moving strongly into health care and life-sciences startups, mirroring shifts at the Internet giant...

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Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With 'Google Fit'

Parmy Olson and Ewan Spence | Forbes | June 12, 2014

Google GOOGL -1.53% is planning to launch a new health service called Google Fit to collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company’s plans. It will launch the service at the Google I/O conference for developers, being held on June 25 and 26.

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Google's Grand Plan For Nest Goes Way Beyond The Internet Of Things

Galen Gruman | InfoWorld | January 14, 2014

Physical devices are becoming just as important as digital services in achieving Google's know-everything ambitions Read More »

Google's Release of TensorFlow Could be a Game-changer in the Future of AI

The development of smarter and more pervasive artificial intelligence (AI) is about to shift into overdrive with the announcement by Google this week that TensorFlow, its second-generation machine-learning system, will be made available free to anyone who wants to use it. Machine learning emulates the way the human brain learns about the world, recognising patterns and relationships, understanding language and coping with ambiguity. This is the technology that already provides the smarts for Google’s image and speech recognition, foreign language translation and various other applications. This is valuable technology, and it is now open source; the source code is freely available and can be modified, developed in new directions and redistributed in the same way that the Linux operating system is open.

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Google, Business, And Open-Source Patent Protection

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | March 29, 2013

Google has just pledged that it won't sue other companies over open-source patents if they don't sue Google first, but this is actually a long established policy. Now if it could only stop the patent wars. Read More »

Google, Eclipse, & Open Source

Cristopher Tozzi | The VAR Guy | September 11, 2012

Open source may not be important enough for Google to release the code of many of its own applications and platforms. But the company nonetheless places a premium on supporting open source development by third parties, as it showed late last week when it donated $20,000 to support the Eclipse IDE project. Read More »

Google, Facebook, Amazon Warn FCC Rules Pose 'Grave Threat To The Internet'

Brendan Sasso | Nextgov.com | May 8, 2014

The world's largest technology companies are coming out in force against the Federal Communications Commission's proposed regulations of Internet access.  In a letter to the FCC Wednesday, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, Netflix, and dozens of other companies warned that the FCC's plan to allow Internet service providers to charge websites for faster service in some cases "represents a grave threat to the Internet."

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Google, Facebook, Amazon: Algorithms Will Soon Rule Our Lives So We'd Better Understand How They Work

Jamie Bartlett | The Telegraph | March 28, 2014

One of the most interesting announcements in last week's Budget – well, for me at least, as someone who has no savings and doesn’t play bingo or drink much – was the new Alan Turing Institute: £220 million of government support will be invested into "big data and algorithm" research.

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Google, IBM, and Lyft Launch Open Source Project Istio

Natalie Gagliordi | ZD Net | May 24, 2017

Google, IBM, and Lyft on Wednesday announced the first public release of Istio, an open source service that gives developers a vendor-neutral way to connect, secure, manage and monitor networks of different microservices on cloud platforms. According to the companies, Istio was created to address the inherent challenges that come with integrating application-based microservices in distributed systems, namely compliance and security...

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Google, IBM, and Lyft Launch Open Source Project Istio

Natalie Gagliordi | ZD Net | May 24, 2017

Google, IBM, and Lyft on Wednesday announced the first public release of Istio, an open source service that gives developers a vendor-neutral way to connect, secure, manage and monitor networks of different microservices on cloud platforms. According to the companies, Istio was created to address the inherent challenges that come with integrating application-based microservices in distributed systems, namely compliance and security...

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Google: 'Government Surveillance Is On The Rise'

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | November 13, 2012

It's not just Petraeus. Google is seeing ever greater efforts by governments to monitor citizens' online activity. Read More »

Google: It's Time To Take Action Against Patent Trolls, Privateering

Rachel King | ZDNet | April 5, 2013

Google bands together with BlackBerry and Red Hat as it continues its offensive to defend itself against patent suits. Read More »