TechnologyYahoo News 360Should we be worried about AI becoming sentient?
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more sophisticated every year, what would it mean for humans if it one day achieves true consciousness?
BusinessYahoo NewsTech giants Amazon, Apple and Google among companies lagging on climate change promises, study finds
Tech and retail giants Amazon, Apple and Google are among 25 companies not doing enough to meet their own pledges to slash greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change, a new report finds.
PoliticsYahoo News 360Should the internet’s most controversial law be repealed?
A once-arcane piece of communications law has become a political flashpoint, with both Republicans and Democrats calling for it to be amended or eliminated.
TechnologyYahoo News 360Can COVID-19 exposure apps slow the spread of coronavirus?
Technology that can help break the chain of transmission exists, but only if enough people take advantage of it.
U.S.Yahoo NewsAlong with police reform, America needs to fix its broken parole system
A former inmate at San Quentin State Prison makes the case that America's parole system needs to be reformed.
PoliticsYahoo NewsButtigieg turns to Silicon Valley to bolster campaign fundraising haul
After raking in $24.8 million in the second quarter, the South Bend, Ind., mayor looks to the tech world for more.
PoliticsYahoo News 360Should Big Tech be broken up?
A handful of tech companies that started out as tiny startups have grown into some of the biggest corporations in the world. But have the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon gotten too big?
PoliticsYahoo NewsConcern over facial recognition technology unites progressives and conservatives in Congress
More than half of Americans are unwittingly included in facial recognition systems nationwide.
PoliticsYahoo NewsAmid nuclear deadlock, top CIA official on Korea leaves for Google
A senior official at the CIA’s Korea Mission Center is leaving the agency to work for Google in Asia, according to two sources directly familiar with the matter, marking the second high-ranking employee to leave the division amid high-level talks between U.S. and North Korean officials on denuclearization.
PoliticsYahoo NewsNew report urges social media giants to remove false information from American sources
Social media companies are already deleting propaganda from foreign actors. A new report says they also need to erase false content that originates in the United States.
PoliticsYahoo NewsGoogle chief faces lawmakers concerned with Silicon Valley, but often puzzled by technology
“Almost every question has a misunderstanding embedded in it,” tweeted Nicholas Thompson, editor of technology magazine Wired. “It’s making my head explode.”
WorldYahoo NewsGoogle walkout marks new direction for #MeToo, #TimesUp
In the past year, a growing outcry against harassment and abuse has toppled dozens of men from power, but less attention has been paid to the institutional scaffolding that allowed those men to gain and keep power in the first place.
BusinessYahoo News Photo StaffWorldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality
More than 1,000 Google employees and contractors in Asia and Europe staged brief midday walkouts on Thursday, with more expected to follow at offices worldwide, amid complaints of sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their workplaces.In a statement late Wednesday, the organizers called on Google parent Alphabet Inc. to add an employee representative to its board of directors and to internally share pay equity data. They also asked for changes to Google’s human resources practices intended to make bringing harassment claims a fairer process.Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a statement that “employees have raised constructive ideas” and that the company was “taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action.”Hundreds of workers filed out of its European headquarters in Dublin shortly after 11 a.m. local time, while organizers shared photographs on social media of hundreds more leaving Google offices in London, Zurich, Berlin, Tokyo and Singapore. (Reuters)See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
PoliticsYahoo News VideoYahoo News explains: Could President Trump regulate Google?
This week President Trump said — without providing evidence — that Google’s search engine was hiding “fair media” coverage of him. ….results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good.
NewsYahoo NewsNeo-Nazi website is booted by Google
Google booted a neo-Nazi website on the same day that it registered with the tech giant.
NewsCNBCGoogle: Here's when our cars turned over the wheel
Google is giving the industry a better understanding of how often its cars disengaged or reverted to manual driving mode.
NewsYahoo Autos StaffSelf-Driving Cars Crash Less Often Than Regular Vehicles: Study
Self-driving cars are involved in fewer crashes on average than vehicles with only a human driver, a study released on Friday by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows. The study was commissioned by Alphabet Inc’s Google unit, which has reported a series of minor crashes involving its self-driving fleet. It looked only at Google’s fleet of more than 50 self-driving cars, which has logged 1.3 million miles in Texas and California in self-driving mode.
NewsJustin HydeFord Skips Over Google Deal In CES Reveals
Ford unwrapped a bundle of tech news this morning to kickoff the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from putting Apple Carplay and Android Auto in its vehicles to a competition for building mobile drone bases in pickups. But it left out the big news: a deal with Google on self-driving cars.
NewsYahoo Autos ContributorsFord and Google Deal To Go Beyond Autonomous Vehicles
While last-minute snags could yet delay a formal announcement, Ford Motor Co. and Google are planning to reveal the details of an extensive new partnership during a news conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.
NewsYahoo Autos StaffGoogle Pairs With Ford To Build Self-Driving Cars
Google and Ford will create a joint venture to build self-driving vehicles with Google’s technology, a huge step by both companies toward a new business of automated ride sharing, Yahoo Autos has learned.
NewsScience of Us on YahooInternet Searching Might Make People Feel Smarter Than They Actually Are
Google makes it easy to pull up just about any information that’s available, but some psychological researchers think it comes with a cost. The “Google effect,” as one team dubbed it, is our tendency to forget information that can be easily looked up. Now a new study adds a new layer to the question of what effects our endless Google-searching might have on us: There’s a chance it’s making us overconfident about stuff we don’t know as well.
NewsYahoo Premium PartnersCalifornia’s Red Tape Slows Google’s Self-Driving Roll
Hustling to bring cars that drive themselves to a road near you, Google finds itself somewhere that has frustrated many before: Waiting on the Department of Motor Vehicles. Before granting that permission, California regulators want Google to prove these cars of the future already drive as safely as people. The Department of Motor Vehicles was supposed to write precedent-setting rules of the road by last Jan. 1. Google says no on both.
NewsYahoo Autos ContributorsWhy The 2016 Fiat 500 Abarth Would Make An Excellent Google Car
The Abarth has all the exterior zip and brio that the Google car lacks. If the Google car looked like this, as opposed to the Toon Town reject it does, no one would be able to mock it.
NewsYahoo ParentingTop-Searched Baby Names by State
Revealed: The most-searched baby names around the country. (Photo: KidStock/Getty Images) After the recent birth of a certain little princess sparked a fresh wave of baby-name buzz, Google has revealed the top-searched baby names for boys and girls by state. STORY: 7 Things New Parents Should Keep in Mind About Baby Names The most-searched boy names are Michael, James, and Avery, while the most popular girl searches are Elizabeth, Olivia, and Emma. (The report reflects searches between March 2014 and March 2015 for “meaning of [insert baby name here]” and “common baby names.”)
“Left unchecked, if artificial intelligence reaches cognition … it will be fueled by some of the most inhumane impulses of humanity.”
“Now is the time to stop and think — before our technology outstrips us once again.”
“I don't want to talk about sentient robots, because at all ends of the spectrum there are humans harming other humans.”
“Minds can take different forms … We should avoid reducing questions about AIs to ‘Can AIs think and feel like us?’”
“To identify sentience, or consciousness, or even intelligence, we’re going to have to work out what they are.”