Why Google and Facebook should be paying news publishers worldwide
Governments of France, Spain and Australia have ordered the giant aggregators to pay publishers for content, but will the duopoly accede?
Indian techie running deceptive coronavirus ads, fake news on Facebook, Instagram faces legal action
Basant Gajjar's company LeadCloak provided ad-cloaking software to sneak fake news and scams past Facebook and Instagram's ad review system
Google bans Zoom on devices used by staff
Employees may continue to use the videoconferencing app to connect to friends and family over browser or mobile
Sharing location with Google? Now it will be displayed on site to aid governments in fight against coronavirus
Reports on users’ movements in 131 countries will be published on a website and will chart movement trends by geography, a Google blog said.
Boom Live is Google's partner in India in fight against coronavirus misinformation
The tech giant has committed USD 6.5 million worldwide to help factcheckers through its Google News Initiative
AI could be key to containing pandemics like the novel coronavirus outbreak in the future
Several AI systems identified the first signs of the outbreak on December 30 but the extent of the severity of the disease was not known
IBM, Amazon, Google in US consortium using 16 supercomputers for coronavirus research
Researchers working on projects chosen by the consortium will be given remote access to the supercomputers for drug and vaccine research
Google’s new website does not screen for coronavirus as Trump said, it has only info
The website points to authoritative resources for coronavirus information and will soon be available in more languages and countries.
Fake news about coronavirus being spread by Russia to worsen crisis in US, Europe, says EU
An internal EU document warned that pro-Kremlin media outlets were promoting disinformation to undermine trust in healthcare systems
Privacy concerns raised as Facebook, Google in talks with Washington to track infections
The use of personal data is highly sensitive especially after 2011 when the NSA was found collecting phone records without permission.