A lawsuit against Google over the transfer of medical information from a British hospital to the tech giant has been dismissed by a High Court judge. The claim was brought by Andrew Prismall, a patient at the Royal Free London NHS Trust, who alleged that his privacy had been breached when his data was shared with Google’s artificial intelligence business DeepMind Technologies. In 2015, the...
Google has announced the names of 40 UK black-led businesses that will receive a share of cash from its Black Founders Fund for 2022. The tech giant’s start-up arm, Google for Startups, launched the fund in 2021 to help tackle stark racial inequality in venture capital funding. A total of £3m – up from £1.5m last year – will be split between the businesses that have been...
The Pixel 3a, Google’s new ‘lite’ version of its flagship phone, has been rapturously received in the US where it costs $399. Here in the UK where the Pixel 3a is £399, its reception has been positive if slightly more muted. This is a capable smartphone that mostly cuts the correct corners in order to keep the price down and bucks the trend for silly tech extras that don’t amount to much. The...
Google has announced the names of 40 UK black-led businesses that will receive a share of cash from its Black Founders Fund for 2022. The tech giant’s start-up arm, Google for Startups, launched the fund in 2021 to help tackle stark racial inequality in venture capital funding. A total of £3m – up from £1.5m last year – will be split between the businesses that have been...
Google reportedly plans to release “Lite” versions of its Pixel 3 phones. They will be more affordable than their full-fat siblings, have a less powerful CPU s, may leave out expensive-to-implement IP68 water resistance… and Google may add a headphone jack back in. You’ll get a choice of sizes, a standard Pixel 3 Lite and a Pixel 3 Lite XL, mirroring the full-price options. The phones have...
Google has been accused of airbrushing aviation emissions, after the company changed its flight search engine to halve the CO2 emissions attributed to any given trip. The change, first noted by the BBC, affects a feature on Google Flights that shows the estimated carbon emissions of each route. The company flags routes with higher or lower than typical emissions, and also reports the total CO2...