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Google‘s subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has cancelled the plan to make a smart city in Canada, citing difficulties due to the Covid-19 pandemic. For many years, it had followed aspirations to make a digital-first city in Toronto “from...

Facebook and Google decided to let employees continue to work from home for the remainder of the year. These two tech companies have declared intentions to resume their offices shortly but are allowing more home working flexibility. Google initially said...

Technology giant Google and Facebook will have to pay for news content in Australia, the government said in a press release, as the coronavirus pandemic causes a breakdown in advertising revenue. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the...

Google and Apple unveiled a joint initiative on Friday to develop a coronavirus smartphone “contact tracing” tool that could potentially alert people when they have crossed paths with an infected person. The move brings together the...

Google is to publicly track people’s movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. The tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people are going to on a county-by-county basis in the...

Google is hoping to end low quality video calls by deploying artificial intelligence to “fill in” audio gaps caused by bad connections. WaveNetEQ works by using a library of speech data to realistically continue short segments...

Google on Friday pledged $800 million worth of support in response to the coronavirus pandemic for health organizations, researchers and businesses impacted by the crisis. The aid will come in the form of cash, ad credits,...

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Saturday it launched a United States-focused website with information about coronavirus guidance and testing, as the country works on slowing the spread of the highly contagious virus. The site (google.com/covid19), which...

Some app developers say Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is increasingly pressing them to embed code in their own products that will deepen Google’s access to data on consumers, giving the company a leg up on rivals....

Alphabet’s Google said on Saturday that it was working with the U.S. government to develop a nationwide website that would help Americans with questions about coronavirus symptoms, risk factors and testing. “We are fully aligned and continue...