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Google Worker Has Crazy Way of Avoiding Rent

He lives in a truck in the company's parking lot

(Newser) - How to work for Google without spending a large portion of your salary on insanely pricey Bay Area rent? Easy: Just live in the parking lot of the tech company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters. That's what Brandon S., 23, has been doing since he started working for Google...

Google Has Audio Files of
Everything You've Asked It

Oct 20, 2015 6:00 PM CDT

Google Has Audio Files of Everything You've Asked It

Want to listen to them?

(Newser) - "It’s all there—my dumb voice asking dumb questions that I thought were lost into the ephemerality of Google’s search servers," Mike Murphy writes on Quartz . Murphy recently learned that not only does Google store records of all your text searches, it also keeps audio recordings...

Guy Buys
Google.com for $12

Oct 12, 2015 5:00 PM CDT

Guy Buys Google.com for $12

Sanmay Ved saw it was available late one night

(Newser) - A student in Massachusetts managed to buy the domain name Google.com and hold onto it—for roughly 60 seconds, the BBC reports. Sanmay Ved, an MBA student at Babson College, noticed the domain was available on Sept. 29 and bought it for all of $12. Suddenly he began receiving...

Google Just Bought
the Alphabet

Oct 8, 2015 2:48 PM CDT

Google Just Bought the Alphabet

More specifically, the abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com domain name

(Newser) - Guess Google execs are serious about that whole reorg under the Alphabet parent-company thing. Just days after Alphabet officially became Google's holding company , it scooped up a brand-new domain name: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com, which has been around since 1999 and was purchased for an unspecified amount, NBC News reports. The...

Austrian Student's
Complaint Leads
to Huge US-EU
Decision

Oct 6, 2015 5:30 AM CDT

Austrian Student's Complaint Leads to Huge US-EU Decision

EU's Court of Justice nullifies pact allowing digital data transfers overseas

(Newser) - In 2011, a 24-year-old Austrian law student filed a complaint against Facebook alleging nearly two dozen violations of European laws that protected his data. Now, Max Schrems' case has morphed into a class-action lawsuit against the social media giant and led to a judgment Tuesday by the EU's highest...

Google Parent
Drops 'Don't Be Evil'

Oct 5, 2015 4:20 AM CDT

Google Parent Drops 'Don't Be Evil'

Alphabet employees still have to 'do the right thing'

(Newser) - Big changes are happening at Google, including a code-of-conduct alteration that has raised some eyebrows: New company Alphabet officially became Google's holding company on Friday, and the famous "Don't Be Evil" motto isn't part of its creed, the Verge reports. But being evil is still apparently...

Say Goodbye
to Google, Apple
Devices on Amazon

Oct 2, 2015 7:33 AM CDT

Say Goodbye to Google, Apple Devices on Amazon

Retailer bans Apple TV, Google Chromecast media-streaming products

(Newser) - Amazon is dumping popular media-streaming devices by two huge rivals to bolster its own video-streaming service, it announced in an email yesterday to marketplace sellers. The retailer won't be accepting any new listings for Apple TV or Google's Chromecast, and all current listings will be yanked from the...

Syria's Top
Google Searches
Tell Sad Story

Sep 30, 2015 12:58 PM CDT

Syria's Top Google Searches Tell Sad Story

The desperation is apparent

(Newser) - The horrors of the Syrian conflict show up in an odd place: Google, where the top searches out of war-torn nation over the past two weeks are heartbreaking, reports Al-Jazeera —and show how desperately people want to flee the country.

The two most popular searches: "immigration to Germany"

...

Google Unveils
a New Logo

Sep 1, 2015 12:22 PM CDT

Google Unveils a New Logo

It's the biggest change in 16 years

(Newser) - Google has a new logo to go along with its new corporate structure . The company today announced its biggest logo update in 16 years, with the key change being a switch to sans-serif typeface designed to read as well on small screens as big ones, reports Fast Company . The Verge...

Lightning Strikes on Google
Wipe Data From Cloud

Aug 19, 2015 6:32 PM CDT

Lightning Strikes on Google Wipe Data From Cloud

But only a tiny amount

(Newser) - Mark it down: 2015 is the year Mother Nature officially declared war on the cloud. Lightning struck a Google data center in Belgium four times in rapid succession last week, permanently erasing a small amount of users' data from the cloud, the BBC reports. The lightning caused power failures and...

Google Robot
Stumbles Through
Woods Like
It's Wasted

Aug 18, 2015 8:01 AM CDT

Google Robot Stumbles Through Woods Like It's Wasted

Atlas struggled.

(Newser) - Atlas, the "agile, anthropomorphic robot" created by Google's Boston Dynamics , is a "high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain." Someone should have told Atlas that before creators let it take its recent foray into the forest, an expedition captured on video and shown...

Google Doesn't Own
.com for New Name

Aug 11, 2015 6:51 AM CDT

Google Doesn't Own .com for New Name

But there's a hidden joke in its .xyz site

(Newser) - Google is now one of several subsidiaries of a new parent company called Alphabet , but while its founders presumably Googled the name, they didn't buy Alphabet.com. That belongs to BMW, which uses it for a subsidiary that focuses on fleet management and financing—and, since it has been...

Google Founders:
Goodbye Google,
Hello Alphabet

Aug 10, 2015 4:34 PM CDT

Google Founders: Goodbye Google, Hello Alphabet

Larry Page and Sergey Brin create new parent company, will run that

(Newser) - Big changes at Google today: Its founders have a created a parent company for it called Alphabet and will focus on running that. Google itself will still exist, but in a "slimmed down" version that will be run by current Google exec Sundar Pichai, writes Larry Page in a...

Google: Distracted Humans Keep Hitting Our Cars

Jul 17, 2015 3:49 AM CDT

Google: Distracted Humans Keep Hitting Our Cars

Latest self-driving accident is first to cause injury

(Newser) - It sounds as if Google is getting a bit fed up with the way distracted, flawed humans keep crashing into its self-driving cars. In the latest accident, which the AP reports is the first involving a Google car to cause human injury, a car rear-ended a stationary self-driving car at...

Google Sorry for Labeling Blacks as 'Gorillas'

Jul 2, 2015 3:50 AM CDT

Google Sorry for Labeling Blacks as 'Gorillas'

Was caused by algorithm error on the Google Photos app

(Newser) - The automated photo-tagging on the Google Photos app introduced in May isn't perfect, Google admits. Sometimes it gives a photo a wrong or irrelevant tag—and, on at least one occasion, an extremely offensive one. The company had some groveling to do after the app labeled a photo of...

Google Will Delete Revenge Porn From Search Results

Jun 20, 2015 12:54 PM CDT

Google Will Delete Revenge Porn From Search Results

People will be able to fill out online requests soon

(Newser) - Google is putting its heavy muscle behind the movement to wipe out revenge porn . The company announced yesterday that it would honor requests to remove such images from search results, reports the Christian Science Monitor . Online forms will be available in a matter of weeks. "Our philosophy has always...

Court: No,
YouTube Didn't
Have to Dump
Anti-Muslim Flick

May 18, 2015 12:52 PM CDT

Court: No, YouTube Didn't Have to Dump Anti-Muslim Flick

Actress wanted 'Innocence of Muslims' yanked after death threats

(Newser) - In a victory for free speech advocates, a federal appeals court says YouTube should not have been forced to take down an anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to actors. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in favor of Google...

Google: Driverless Cars Not to Blame for 11 Accidents

May 12, 2015 8:45 AM CDT

Google: Driverless Cars Not to Blame for 11 Accidents

But Google, California DMV haven't released full accident reports

(Newser) - Google's fleet of 23 self-driving Lexuses has been involved in 11 accidents over the past six years of testing in California—but the company says not one of those incidents was the fault of a Google car, the AP reports. Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving initiative, writes...

Google Exec
Among the Dead
on Everest

Apr 25, 2015 4:14 PM CDT

Google Exec Among the Dead on Everest

Dan Fredinburg suffered a head injury, his sister confirms

(Newser) - One of the Everest victims has been revealed as Google exec Dan Fredinburg. His sister today confirmed in posts to his Twitter and Instagram accounts that he died after suffering a head injury in the avalanche triggered by the Nepal quake. Fredinburg's LinkedIn profile lists three roles held at...

Take Virtual Tour
of Mandela's
Prison

Apr 23, 2015 6:13 PM CDT

Take Virtual Tour of Mandela's Prison

Google adds Robben Island to its catalog

(Newser) - Digital tourists have a notable new destination to explore—the old prison cell of Nelson Mandela. Google has launched a virtual tour of the Robben Island prison complex where Mandela spent 18 years, reports Mashable . One unique part of the project is a video in which former political prisoner Vusumsi...