An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google responded to congressional child online safety proposals with its own counteroffer for the first time Monday, urging lawmakers to drop problematic protections like age-verification tech. In a b…

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled today that evidence gleaned from a warrant for Google’s search data could be used in the prosecution of a teen who was charged with murder for a fire that killed five people in the Denver area. From a report: As police …

Google’s “Project Green Light” uses machine learning on Maps data to optimize the length of green lights, reports Engadget, “reducing idle times as well as the amount of braking and accelerating vehicles have to do there.”

When the program was first a…

Google is still wondering if it should make major changes to its homepage. The last experiment we saw filled the usually stark white page with info cards showing things like the weather and stocks, but this new experiment has a much bigger focus on new…

Google has agreed to stop advertising YouTube TV as “$600 less than cable” after losing an appeal of a previous ruling that went against the company. Google said it will “modify or cease the disputed advertising claim.” From a report: The case was hand…

For months, Alphabet’s Google and Discord have run an invitation-only chat for heavy users of Bard, Google’s artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Google product managers, designers and engineers are using the forum to openly debate the AI tool’s ef…