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The Google Employees’ newly formed Alphabet Workers Union said it was concerned with Google’s decision to exclude senior AI moralist researcher Margaret Mitchell from her account. Google found that she was forced …
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Read More »Google has closed its Fitbit acquisition
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Google has suspended President Donald Trump’s YouTube account and formally warned the White House about the use of the world’s largest video platform. company said On Tuesday night Trump uploaded content that …
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