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News Articles: google

A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019.

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  • Technology

If you haven't logged into your Google account in over 2 years, it will be deleted

The deleted accounts will get rid of user data in Gmail, Google Drive and Docs, Google Calendar and YouTube. To keep an account active, a user simply has to log in.

May 17, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
As of March 2023, there were 316,000 job openings in tech, according to the nonprofit IT association CompTIA. Despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley, tech jobs remain plentiful.

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  • Business

Need a job? Tech remains a good bet despite mass layoffs in Silicon Valley

The number of openings in the technology field is still high, and tech jobs continue to be attractive to workers looking for stable, lucrative careers.

April 26, 2023
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Google raters get ready for a rally at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters on Feb. 1, 2023.

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  • Business

Google's 'Ghost Workers' are demanding to be seen by the tech giant

Google has a massive workforce of subcontractors to help maintain its search engine and now they're asking for more labor rights.

March 31, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Shares for Google's parent company, Alphabet, dropped 9% Wednesday after its AI chatbot, Bard, gave an incorrect answer.

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  • Technology

Google shares drop $100 billion after its new AI chatbot makes a mistake

Google's Bard, an answer to Microsoft's ChatGPT, delivered a factual error in a search demo that the company shared widely. That sent Alphabet's market value plummeting this week.

February 10, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Workers help set up the Google booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center before the start of the CES tech show, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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  • Business

Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January

The layoffs at Google follow similarly huge cuts at Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce. Tech companies who hired rapidly during the pandemic now face fears of recession.

January 20, 2023
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By:
  • Mary Yang
A hand types a search query on Google

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  • News

Google's top trending searches this year include national focus on Georgia's elections

Google takes a look at what people are searching for in 2022 that they weren't searching for in 2021.

 

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif.

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  • National

These are the words, movies and people that Americans searched for on Google in 2022

Google compiled data on the people, entertainment and current events that Americans searched for the most in 2022.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Google pays nearly $392 million to settle sweeping location-tracking case

"Google has prioritized profit over their users' privacy," said Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum of Oregon, one of 40 states to bring the case. "They have been crafty and deceptive."

November 14, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Halloween revelers dressed in costumes march in New York City's 48th annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in New York.

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  • National

These are the Halloween costumes you may see a lot, based on people's Google searches

This year, the search engine Google composed a map of its most popular spooky searches. The results, broken down by geography, may be surprising.

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Meta reports another drop in revenue, in a rough week for tech companies

Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta reported a revenue drop for the second time in its history. Snapchat, Microsoft and Google also reported losses in the last quarter.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Yang
Google's logo on a building on the company's Mountain View, Calif., campus in 2019. The company says it mistakenly sent a security engineer $250,000.

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  • Business

He got an unexplained $250,000 payment from Google. The company says it was a mistake

Sam Curry, a self-described hacker, was puzzled by the payment. A Google spokesperson says the company paid "the wrong party as the result of human error" and was working to correct it.

September 16, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Workers at Google's parent company Alphabet want to better protect people's abortion-related location data and search history.

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  • Business

Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people's abortion search data

Workers are asking Google to protect user location data and search history from law enforcement agencies that might attempt to prosecute abortion seekers.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon
Google announced that it would delete location data showing when people visit abortion providers, but privacy experts, and some Google employees, want the company to do more to safeguard data.

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  • Technology

Privacy advocates fear Google will be used to prosecute abortion seekers

When law enforcement requests it, Google usually hands over location and search data collected through its smartphone apps. Will that now be used against people seeking abortions in some states?

July 11, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Blake Lemoine poses for a portrait in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

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  • Technology

The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul

The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.

June 16, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A woman makes a phone call in front of police officers blocking access to Red Square in central Moscow on March 2, 2022

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  • Technology

Russia is restricting social media. Here's what we know

Russians face a confusing patchwork of online restrictions as the Kremlin cracks down on the free flow of information on social media.

March 07, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond and
  • Bobby Allyn
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