Protesters gather against Google’s ‘Project Dragonfly’ Chinese search engine

Protesters gathered outside the offices of Google in London on Friday to demonstrate against its controversial Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine for China. A group of activists turned up to the demonstration at midday, demanding the company scraps the alleged plans over concerns about freedom of speech and internet security. In August last year,…

All the major data breaches of 2018 – including Google+, Marriot, Ticketmaster

Retailers, airlines and hotels were among 2018's victims of data breaches. Jamie Harris, Press Association's Science Technology Reporter, reports on a year where millions of people had their information stolen by hackers..... Data breaches continued to be a major issue for the public in 2018 with a number of serious cases ranging from retailers to…

Waymo launches trial ride-hailing service with self-driving car

Google’s self-driving car spin-off Waymo is finally ready to profit from its nearly decade-old technology with a small-scale ride-hailing service in the Phoenix area of the US.  The service, which will include a human behind the wheel in case the autonomous vehicles malfunction, marks a significant milestone for Waymo, a company that began as a secretive…