Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years thanks to energy-guzzling data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report
Google is investing in a Taiwanese solar company with plans to build a 1 gigawatt (GW) pipeline of sustainable energy in the region. The company is placing a stake in New Green Power (NGP), part of BlackRock’s investment portfolio, for the project.
Google is giving the Chrome mobile apps some TLC. The Android and iOS versions of the browser now offer quicker access to crucial info, trending searches and live sports scores in the Discovery Feed.
There’s a new Android vulnerability out in the world, and it looks to be so serious. US government workers have been told to update their Google Pixel phones immediately.
Wired reports that more than 1,100 people who identified themselves as STEM students and young workers have taken the pledge to refuse jobs from the companies "for powering Israel's Apartheid system and genocide against Palestinians."
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence laboratory is working on a new technology that can generate soundtracks, even dialogue, to go along with videos.
YouTube is borrowing a page from X (Twitter) and adding a community notes feature ahead of the 2024 US election. The company wants the short viewer-created blurbs to add relevant context to videos, such as pointing out misinformation or old footage passed off as new.
Future versions of ChromeOS will lean more heavily on the same tech that Android is based on. According to Google, this will improve engineering efficiency and make it easier to bring more AI features to Chromebooks.
June's Pixel feature drop includes the introduction of the Gemini Nano generative AI model to more Pixel devices, enhanced Recorder summaries and car crash detection on Pixel Watch 2.