What Your Web Browser’s Incognito Mode Really Does You don’t have to be a computer whiz to grasp the value of private web browsing. At a time when consumers are worried about the data Facebook and others have assembled on their digital lives, it’s nice to have a...
Why Google Should Have Considered Duplex’s Ethical Issues Earlier When Google (GOOGL, -0.12%) unveiled its Duplex “AI” earlier this week, it sparked massive ethical concerns. Belatedly, the company seems to have recognized the problem. The point of the new...
Nearly a dozen Google employees have reportedly quit in protest Remember when 3,100 Google employees signed a protest letter over the use of Google’s machine learning algorithms to help drones identify and track objects for the US Department of Defense? If not, you’d...
Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you [Updated] Tuesday’s I/O keynote included a segment on Google Assistant with a slew of newly announced features, but none was as startling as its rollout of Google Duplex: a voice-powered...
Google’s Best Security Feature Is used By Less Than 10% Of Users We all know that passwords are a terrible way to secure valuable services. The fact is that we’re all lazy, reuse passwords and perhaps rely on easy-to-remember logins that don’t protect us, but...
