Etiket: Google
Chinese Google engineer charged with stealing AI-related technology
Linwei Ding worked “secretly for two companies based in China,” said the American Minister of Justice. Published on 06/03/2024 22:43 Update on 06/03/2024 22:44 Reading time: 1 min An illustrative…
Meta and Google sites down
Users of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp are experiencing problems with the three social platforms, as are those of YouTube and Google Play, according to what specialist sites report. Published at…
Google CEO is annoyed by “totally unacceptable” errors in its Gemini AI
Google CEO Sundar Pichai denounced “totally unacceptable” errors in its artificial intelligence application Gemini in a letter to his teams, while the generation of historically inaccurate images led to the…
Advertising spending explodes to the benefit of Google, Facebook and company
We have never been exposed to so many advertising messages. In a decade, advertising spending in Canada has increased from $12 billion to nearly $20 billion. However, traditional media have…
Pornhub wants to force Google, Apple and Microsoft to verify age
The Canadian company that owns the pornographic site Pornhub is leading a lobbying campaign in Ottawa to promote an age verification mechanism that would force Apple, Google and Microsoft to…
The sexism of Google, Wikipedia… and IMDB
Google is indeed sexist, according to a new American analysis of more than a million images. Wikipedia doesn’t do any better when it comes to professional stereotypes… nor does the…
Green Light, from Google | A project that interests cities around the world
This column has already discussed how to regulate traffic with the use of new technologies and certain innovative applications. Now, Google is going further with a new plan called Green…
Google launches its Gemini generative AI in Canada
Google is cleaning up its artificial intelligence applications a little. Exit Bard, hello Gemini, a generative AI application that Google promises to be at least as effective as OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
How Google and Amazon Broke the Internet
Google is broken. It’s Amazon’s fault. The results provided by the search engine are increasingly polluted by websites with empty content, tailor-made to get to the top of the list…
Google searches are becoming less and less relevant, study finds
Some of you may have noticed a drop in the quality of search engine results. In fact, it would be a generalized phenomenon which has just been confirmed by a…
Meta joins OpenAI and Google in the race for artificial general intelligence
(San Francisco) Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta (Facebook, Instagram), declared that his group was now working on so-called “general” artificial intelligence (AI), that is to say computer systems equipped…
Google lays off hundreds of employees from its ad sales department
(San Francisco) Google on Tuesday confirmed the layoffs of several hundred people within its global ad sales team, as a growing number of administrative and creative tasks are automated using…
Google restricts cookies on Chrome before total abandonment
Google began on Thursday to limit third-party cookies among some of its Chrome browser users, in order to begin a transition towards abandoning these trackers criticized for their intrusive nature,…
Google restricts cookies on Chrome before total abandonment
(Paris) Google began on Thursday to limit third-party cookies for some users of its Chrome browser, in order to begin a transition towards the abandonment of these trackers criticized for…
What were the most searched keywords on Google in 2023?
Temu, Women’s World Cup, SOPFEU, war in Gaza… Google revealed in December the most searched keywords on its platform in 2023. Analysis of Quebec and Canadian trends. In Quebec, the…
Privacy Protection | Google reaches agreement for 5 billion dispute
(San Francisco) Google has reached an agreement to settle a consumer privacy dispute that could have cost it at least $5 billion in damages in the United States. Posted at…
Google reaches settlement in $5 billion privacy dispute
Google has reached an agreement to settle a consumer privacy dispute that could have cost it at least $5 billion in damages in the United States. With this agreement, the…
Alphabet, parent company of Google, will pay 700 million in antitrust settlement
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, agreed to pay $700 million and make changes to its online app store, adhering to the terms of an antitrust settlement made public Monday. As part…
Google parent company | Alphabet to pay US700 million in antitrust settlement
(San Francisco) Alphabet, Google’s parent company, agreed to pay $700 million and make changes to its online application store, respecting the terms of an antitrust settlement made public Monday. Posted…
Ottawa caps Radio-Canada’s share of agreement with Google
The public broadcaster CBC / Radio-Canada will receive a maximum of 7% of the 100 million agreement between the search engine Google and the Government of Canada, or of any…