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With Entry Into Interest Curation, Google Goes Head-To-Head With Facebook

2:49pm July 19, 2017

by Aarti Shahani

In the feed, users will get a stream of news, photos and more based on their search histories and interests across Google products. The company promises a different, less friend-filtered experience.

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A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google search results about health can be influential, but sometimes they can be unreliable or wrong.

Seeking Online Medical Advice? Google's Top Results Aren't Always On Target

6:18pm July 17, 2017

by Jacob Margolis

Google's search results on health issues can be influential, but they can also be unreliable or wrong. The highlighted answer may come from a dubious source while a more credible one is buried below.

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Evaldas Rimasauskas walks into court in May in Vilnius, Lithuania. On Monday, the court ruled that Rimasauskas, allegedly behind a massive email scheme, must be extradited to the U.S. to stand trial.

His Alleged Email Scam Swindled $100 Million. Now, He's Set To Be Extradited

4:08pm July 17, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Evaldas Rimasauskas is accused of crafting a massive scheme to defraud Google and Facebook of more than $100 million. But the Lithuanian national will appeal the extradition order handed down Monday.

EU antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, pictured last summer, announced a fine against Google over the way it ranks shopping services in its search results.

World News

Google Hit With $2.7 Billion Fine By European Antitrust Monitor

10:37am June 27, 2017

by Bill Chappell

The European Commission says Google "abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors."

Google has announced it will no longer scan users' emails to target ads. Above, the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015.

National

Google Says It Will No Longer Read Users' Emails To Sell Targeted Ads

5:40pm June 26, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The company says it will make the change later this year, bringing Gmail in line with its business products. But Google has already gathered a lot of data on users since it launched Gmail in 2004.

Ke Jie, the world's No. 1 Go player, stares at the board during his second match against AlphaGo in Wuzhen, China, on Thursday. The 19-year-old grandmaster dropped the match in the best-of-three series against Google's artificial intelligence program.

Google A.I. Clinches Series Against Humanity's Last, Best Hope To Win At Go

1:13pm May 25, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Ke Jie is a wunderkind — the 19-year-old undisputed master of what might well be the world's most complex game. And he just soundly lost a best-of-three series to an artificial intelligence program.

Spectators watch the world's top-ranked Go player, Ke Jie, square off against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, during the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China, on Tuesday. The program beat Ke in the first of three planned matches.

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'Like A God,' Google A.I. Beats Human Champ Of Notoriously Complex Go Game

5:53pm May 23, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

"Last year, it was still quite humanlike when it played," the world's No. 1 Go player, Ke Jie, said after losing the first in a three-match series. "But this year, it became like a god of Go."

Google wants to pump 1.5 million gallons of water per day to cool servers at its data center in Berkeley County, S.C. "It's great to have Google in this region," conservationist Emily Cedzo said. "So by no means are we going after Google ... Our concern,

Google Moves In And Wants To Pump 1.5 Million Gallons Of Water Per Day

8:21pm May 08, 2017

by Sarah McCammon

The company says it needs that much water to cool its servers at a South Carolina data center. Now, community leaders are having to balance economic benefits with environmental impact.

Google launched its first servers in Cuba this week. Above, people use public Wi-Fi to connect their devices on a Havana street in October 2016.

Google Spins Up Its First Servers In Cuba

5:14pm April 27, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

The company can speed up delivery of high-bandwidth content like YouTube videos because the servers will now store data locally. But accessing the Internet in Cuba remains difficult and expensive.

Customers await their orders at a Burger King in in Marignane, France, in 2012.

OK Google, Burger King Hijacked Your Speakers ... And Failed Pretty Quickly

2:04pm April 13, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The fast-food chain launched an ad Wednesday meant to wake viewers' Google Home speakers and use them for a makeshift promo. Sadly for Burger King, it wasn't long before the ploy hit some speed bumps.