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Google Report Reveals $23 Billion Stashed In Tax Havens
Google Has $23 Billion In Tax Havens With its technology, software and a vast number of products behind it, it’s hardly any surprise that Google (or strictly speaking, it’s parent company Alphabet) earns an exceptionally large amount of money each year. With large earnings, however, come taxes as most self-employed people…
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Google Decides To Appeal EU $5BN Fine
Google Decides To Appeal EU $5BN Fine Earlier this year, a European Commission hit Google with a $5BN fine. Yes, that’s five billion Dollars. Just so we’re clear! Why did they do this? Well, it was felt that the parent company (Alphabet) was deliberately breaching antitrust laws in regards to…
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Waymo First to Put Completely Autonomous Car on Public Roads
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet has become the first company to put a car on the road. Not just any car, and not just on any road. But a fully autonomous vehicle without a safety driver on a public road in Arizona. The company will soon also begin…
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Waymo Launches Free Self-Driving Taxi Service Trials in Arizona
Waymo, formerly called the Google self-driving car project, has launched initial trials in Phoenix, Arizona using a fleet of 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. The service is currently being offered for free, servicing the Phoenix metropolitan area, including Chandler, Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert. Phoenix has been selected as compared to…
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GTA V Being Used to Train Autonomous Vehicle Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is being trained for autonomous vehicle driving using an unlikely tool: Grand Theft Auto V. While the game itself does not have an ultra-realistic physics engine for the AI to learn from, the blockbuster game allows for a multitude of vehicles to be used and its detailed driving…
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Former Google VP Unveils Clean Nuclear Energy Project
A former Vice President for Google’s parent company Alphabet has launch a new company which aims to deliver clean and safe nuclear power. The company, Apollo Fusion, is designing cheap “hybrid” reactors that will be at no risk of experiencing nuclear meltdown. “We’re working on revolutionary hybrid reactor technology with…
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Alphabet Chief Leaves after Running Project Loon for 6 Months
A little while ago, we told you that Alphabet’s Project Loon has made some significant progress regarding the overall number of balloons needed for the project’s success, and now it appears that the project has lost its leader just six months after he signed up for the job. Tom Moore, a satellite…
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Alphabet’s Project Loon Won’t Need So Many Balloons after All
Alphabet’s Project Loon has been in the works for quite some time now, and even though the original idea to use balloons in order to deliver internet to the world’s most remote areas is definitely great in theory, it turns out that implementing it is not exactly a walk in…
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Google to Launch a Ridesharing Service Based on Autonomous Cars
Google’s ongoing efforts to create a business based on autonomous cars have not been very successful lately, but things have the potential to change drastically in the near future. Sources indicate that Larry Page wants to adopt a different driverless car strategy that would involve scrapping the current “koala” prototypes and replacing them…
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Google DeepMind AI Can Now Learn on its Own
DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) developed by Google parent company Alphabet, is now capable of learning from its own memory without input from its programmers, the team responsible has revealed. The DeepMind researchers have developed a Differential Neural Computer (DNC), a new hybrid system that connects the AI’s neural network…
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Medicine Powered by Bioelectric Technology Backed by Google
When it comes to medicines, science is going further and further in hand with technology in order to help and develop entirely new lengths in previously unexplored areas. Google is looking to team up with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a British pharmaceutical giant who is looking at using bioelectric technology to research a…
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Chromebook Sales Surpass Apple Macs For The First Time!
The Google Chromebook project is an interesting endeavour which revolves around the concept of cloud storage and low power devices. This means you can offer really affordable laptops which lack local storage and perform basic tasks in a relatively quick manner. Of course, it’s not for everyone and I personally…
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HP Announces The Chromebook 13
The Google Chromebook is a fascinating project which revolves around the company’s cloud-based operating system. Instead of using local storage, all your files including documents, photographs and videos are stored on Google Drive. This makes Chromebook devices feel rather snappy and the lack an optical drive means they can opt…
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Google Building New Hardware Division
Every large company tends to see major shakeups every know and them, with divisions being closed and opened left and right. Google is no stranger to that, with multiple reorganizations under its belt, most recently spawning the Alphabet group. Today, the company is creating a new hardware division, helmed by…
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Google Plans to Build its Own City
As part of its reorganisation last year, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. converted its private city planning outfit Sidewalk Labs – tasked with modernising US cities to help integrate new technologies – into its own subdivision. The mission statement of this new subsidiary, though, appears to be more than just…
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