You’ll someday be able to use whichever smart home devices you want, regardless of which smart assistant you use.
How Silicon Valley billionaires skirt charity rules each holiday season.
Sundar Pichai, who was already CEO of Google, will now officially take over as CEO of Alphabet, too.
The move is the latest escalation in growing tensions between employee organizers and management at the search giant.
Microtargeting is the new hotbed of debate around political ads on the internet. But are we even having the right conversation?
Rebecca Rivers, a former engineer, said on Monday that the company terminated her employment.
Hundreds of Google employees and protesters rallied in support of colleagues they say were put on leave for political reasons.
Google’s decision puts new pressure on Facebook to change its policies on political ads.
What Google plans to do with the records is unclear. This episode of Reset explores the potential impacts on patient privacy.
Googlers are pushing for a commitment to zero emissions by 2030 and to cancel contracts with fossil fuel companies.
The search giant’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit raises questions about data privacy and antitrust.
One former employee says allegations of retaliation have been added to claims of sexual harassment and discrimination.
The search giant’s workers have become more political and critical, and they show no signs of quieting down.
Here’s what it might mean for you and for the future of encryption.
Management tried to shut down an employee-led talk on unionization at its Zurich office, but it happened anyway.
The move has helped spark a fiery debate playing out on the search giant’s internal mailing lists.
Microsoft is trying to crush Slack and Zoom by essentially giving away Teams for free.
“I think there is a real possibility that these companies get broken up.”
Sen. Warner outlined what he thinks Congress needs to do next on the latest Recode Decode.
Some social media companies clarified this week that they consider most political content “news.”
A group of Google contractors who hold college degrees, get paid as little as $40,000 a year, and don’t receive sick days voted to unionize on Tuesday.
Humans are auditing your conversations, but that’s not the same as spying.
On the latest Recode Decode, de Blasio called for antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google and dismissed universal basic income as a cure-all in the face of job automation.
Smith says it doesn’t matter if you’re not as responsible for breaking things as someone else — if you can be part of the solution, you should.
Get used to giving up control.
Nearly a year after Google’s #MeToo walkout, a previously unreported internal document details dozens of employees’ stories of harassment and retaliation for reporting workplace issues.
Investigations into Big Tech are all the rage right now — including among state attorneys general.
Milo Yiannopoulos and his right-wing peers seemed state of the art in 2016. CNN’s Oliver Darcy talks about what changed since then.
Under political pressure, the company is restricting its historically open work culture.
It’s a tightrope walk.
Employees are circulating a petition asking the company not to bid on contracts with government agencies that enforce controversial immigration policies such as child detention.
Google search and claims of conservative bias, explained.
Another former engineer has alleged that the company fired him over his political beliefs.
They say these candidates are good for society, good for tech, and — surprisingly — good for Google.
Government regulators are, yet again, stepping up scrutiny on Big Tech.
Big Tech’s consolidation is hurting innovation, Yang says, but just saying “break them up” is a “20th century approach to [a] 21st century problem.”
On an upcoming episode of Recode Decode, he told Kara Swisher that it’s time for a “national debate” about the so-called “right to be forgotten.”
“Bogus” kind of gives it away.
One whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, changed the course of Cadwalladr’s reporting on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Are there more people like him out there?