Watch VideoYouTube tested by flood of star doctors during 'infodemic'

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The World Health Organization has described the overabundance of covid-related communication online as an ?infodemic?.

As YouTube mulls changes to kids’ content, rival services see opportunity

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Earlier this summer, the Federal Trade Commission began holding private talks with YouTube officials, part of a burgeoning investigation.

YouTube overhauled its algorithms for kids’ content amid FTC talks

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In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems ?quality? children?s content.

Google CEO backs privacy law, denies bias in remarks to congress

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Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai backed privacy legislation and denied the company is politically biased.

Uber is back in China: but for making bikes, not ride-hailing

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Two years after exiting China, Uber Technologies Inc. is putting feet back on the ground.

Ford unit teams with startup developing ‘Waze’ for self-driving cars

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A slew of companies have sprung up to make the smarts, sensors and other integral systems for self-driving cars.

Google backs startup working on remote-controlled driverless car

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Alphabet Inc. ?s Google is getting into self-driving cars in a new way.

Google AI used by Pentagon drone project in rare test

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Google?s artificial intelligence technology is being used by the U. S. Department of Defense to analyze drone footage.

YouTube's new moderators mistakenly pull right-wing channels

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YouTube?s new moderators, brought in to spot fake, misleading and extreme videos, stumbled in one of their first major tests.

GALLERY: Inside Google’s $131m Boulder Campus

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The company?s Colorado workforce will be greeted by a pizza oven and pinball machines.

Nobody wants to let Google win war for maps all over again

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On any given day, there could be a half dozen autonomous cars mapping the same street corner in Silicon Valley.

Google parent brakes on drones

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The latest Google drones have just started taking flight in the real world. But the team behind the technology is slowing down.