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Google Hopes To Hire More Black Engineers By Bringing Students To Silicon Valley

9:59am March 28, 2017

by Queena Kim

Howard, the historically black university in Washington, D.C., is sending computer science students to study at Google's headquarters in California, as part of an effort called Howard West.

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Google says it will improve its internal systems and give advertisers more control of where their spots appear, responding to complaints about the pairing of paid ads with offensive content.

Google Promises To Keep Ads Off 'Hateful, Offensive' YouTube Content

2:52pm March 21, 2017

by Bill Chappell

On Friday, a division of a global marketing group with a digital budget of more than $200 million put its dealings with Google on "pause," citing recent controversies.

Anthony Levandowski, who co-founded Otto and is now head of Uber's self-driving-vehicle project, is accused of taking proprietary designs and information with him when he left the Google spinoff Waymo.

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Google Spinoff Sues Uber, Saying Leader Of Autonomous Vehicle Unit Stole Key Designs

12:40pm February 24, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Waymo, the company that began as Google's self-driving-car project, says a former manager "took extraordinary efforts to raid Waymo's design server and then conceal his activities."

Fred Korematsu fought U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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Is Today's Google Doodle A Poke At The Trump Administration?

5:16pm January 30, 2017

by Laura Sydell

Fred Korematsu fought the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II. Today he would be 98. But Google's choice to make him the Doodle focus doesn't seem like a total coincidence.

This undated photo appeared on a website investigated by the FBI in connection with Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a Charleston, S.C., church in June 2015.

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What Happened When Dylann Roof Asked Google For Information About Race?

5:52pm January 10, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

The 22-year-old said in court documents that the results of a Google search shaped his beliefs on race years before he murdered nine people in a historically black South Carolina church.

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Amid Ethics Office Debacle, Googling Congress Members Spiked. Sort Of

3:14pm January 04, 2017

by Danielle Kurtzleben

It's true that more people looked up their lawmakers than usual. But that was still only a handful of people.

Facebook, Google Take Steps To Confront Fake News

11:33am November 15, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

Facebook is under fire for articles posted on its site that are not true, but go viral anyway. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says fake news isn't a problem, but Facebook is taking steps to block it.

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A Google broadband technician installs a fiber-optic network at a home of one of the early Google Fiber customers in Kansas City, Kan., in 2012.

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Google Fiber Won't Accept Any New Cities For Its Superfast Internet Network

3:49pm October 26, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Google says it will honor its existing commitments to support or deploy gigabit-speed Internet. But it's scaling back the work on fiber optics to focus on "new technology and deployment methods."

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Google Goes All-In On Hardware With 'Pixel' Phone, Home Assistant, VR Headset

4:30pm October 04, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

The tech giant has been outmaneuvered in consumer products, namely by Amazon's Echo and Apple's iPhone. Google is now betting on its artificial intelligence progress to stage a comeback.

Illustration of a man and woman sitting and reading in waiting room chairs.

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Why Some Diversity Thinkers Aren't Buying The Tech Industry's Excuses

4:54pm July 19, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Despite diversity efforts, Facebook and Google keep showing little change in the percentages of black, Latino and female workers. Facebook pins the problem on lack of talent in the education pipeline.