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Google revives AI-generated human figures with enhanced safeguards after controversy over false and racist images, integrating the feature into its Gemini AI chatbot.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the acquisition of Wiz is set to become the largest in the history of Google

  Google has introduced a new feature called "Listen to this page" in the Android version of the Chrome browser, allowing webpages to be read aloud with playback controls like pause, adjust reading speed, scrub forward, and skip ahead or back by 10 seconds. Users can customize the reading experience by changing the voice, language, […]

Google has temporarily disabled its new AI-powered "AI Overviews" feature for some searches due to errors and is working to minimize mistakes in this feature. The AI Overviews feature, introduced at Google I/O 2024, provides summarized search results instead of just links. The feature has faced challenges, including misinterpreting queries, lack of quality information, and […]

Dozens of Google workers who were fired after participating in employee sit-ins at Google offices filed a complaint with labor regulators, alleging they were 'unfairly fired' in an attempt to get their jobs back

No Tech for Apartheid, the group organizing the protest, accused Google of 'throwing a tantrum' and 'valuing its profit and its $1.2 billion contract with Israel more than people'

The protests were organized by a group called No Tech for Apartheid, whose members told reporters at the scene that they were objecting to Project Nimbus – a $1.2 billion contract awarded to Google and Amazon in 2021 to provide cloud-computing services to the Israeli government

  Google on Wednesday terminated 28 employees after a series of protests against labor conditions and the company's contract to provide the Israeli government and military. An internal memo sent by Chris Rackow, Google's vice president of global security, on Wednesday night informed the employees that "following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight […]

  Google offices in New York City and Sunnyvale, California, were the scenes of protests on Tuesday as dozens of employees occupied the premises. The employees were voicing their opposition to the company's $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government, a project known as "Project Nimbus." The sit-in was organized […]

Video that circulated on social media last month showed two young Google employees disrupting a New York City conference on the Israeli tech industry, shouting “No tech for apartheid!”

Google engineer fired for protest against collaboration with Israeli military; shouted, "I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance."

The grant is part of an $8 million Google fund designated for initiatives in Israel and Palestine.

Tired of feeling hounded by shopping sites? Google may just have the solution: Getting rid of irritating "cookies" that track your every move online.

Tired of feeling hounded by shopping sites? Google may just have the solution: Getting rid of irritating "cookies" that track your every move online.

As of Friday, Google started deleting any accounts that have been inactive for two years or more. 

As of Friday, Google started deleting any accounts that have been inactive for two years or more. 

The posts were shared on internal communications systems with employees and cannot be seen by users of Google content, sources inform "Globes."