Ottawa on Friday spelled out how a new law requiring digital giants to pay publishers for news content will work in practice, including how much it could cost Meta and Google.The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a...

By AFPGoogle launched its AI chatbot Bard in the European Union, Brazil and a dozen other countries on Thursday and unveiled new features as it expands access to its answer to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT.The US tech giant unveiled Bard in February but d...

A Supreme Court judge in Brazil ordered an investigation Friday of Google and Telegram over what he called the tech companies' "abusive campaign" against a controversial bill seeking to stem disinformation online.Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered f...

Google's parent company Alphabet announced Friday it will cut about 12,000 jobs globally, citing a changing economic reality as it became the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring.The layoffs come a day after Microsoft said it would...

By AFPTech giant Microsoft has avoided billions in taxes in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, all countries where it has lucrative public sector contracts, because of its complex corporate structure, a study published Thursday claimed.The company,...

Google allowed social media network Parler back into its Play Store Friday, more than a year after banning the platform popular with conservatives in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol.Google pulled the Parler app from its online marketpl...

Ariel Koren, a Jewish Google worker, was forced to quit after the company decided to move her work to another place as a punishment for her objection to a $1.2-billion Artificial Intelligence contract per which Google would help Israel to monitor Pal...

By AFPTens of thousands of users reported being unable to access various Google services on Monday night, according to outage monitor Downdetector."User reports indicate Google Maps is having problems since 9:36 PM EDT (0136 GMT)," Downdetector tweet...

Google announced Friday it would delete users' location history when they visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters and other places where privacy is sought."If our systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, we will delet...

European consumer groups accused Google on Thursday of violating online privacy by pushing their users to blindly sign-in to a Google account in order for their data to be tracked and exploited for profit.The allegations are being filed under the EU'...

Google said on Sunday that it was "very pleased" to be settling, without admission of wrongdoing, a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions.The $118 million settlement covers about 15,5...