Google's "dramatic decision" to remove two conservative news sites from its ad platform further exposed the company's "monopoly" power with which it can censor and silence dissenting voices, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz accused Thursday.Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade, Cruz stated that threatening to demonetize or cut off ad revenue to right-wing…
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation aimed at fighting what they see as anti-conservative bias on Google and other social media platforms. Republican senators introduced legislation to strip Big Tech of liability protections and hit the companies with $5,000 fines for unfair treatment. In another swipe, Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, sent a letter to…
Images of Winston Churchill failed to appear Sunday during Google searches for the former British prime minister—but the tech giant says it was not on purpose.Google blamed a glitch and said it was only temporary.Users noticed something was wrong when Churchill’s Google Search Knowledge Graph card appeared without an accompanying image.Then a Google search for British…
Alphabet's life sciences company, Verily, is launching a research project with an initial focus on understanding how the human immune system responds to the coronavirus. The company is adapting its existing study, Project Baseline, which aims to use the latest technology for longitudinal health care research, to support the pandemic. Its first initiative, Baseline Antibody Research, offers…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…