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Tom Scocca wants to fight "the darkness of falsehood." He's starting with onions.

Marketplace's Lizzie O'Leary talks to Wired Senior Staff Writer Cade Metz about how technologists are combining artificial intelligence with human fact checkers to take down fake news.

Artificial intelligence is improving Google Translate and there might be more to come.

Google’s plan to take over the world takes another step forward. The company has turned its self-driving car project from a research operation to a full-fledged business division, according to the latest from Reuters. The new venture is called Waymo — which stands for “a new way forward in mobility”. The move seems to suggest […]

Google and other tech companies are looking at how to lobby a Trump Administration.

There’s talk of made-up news moving the needle during the election and beyond. So how profitable is it?

The companies face down the fake news problem by starting with the money.

Google will start by cutting off its ad-selling software to sites promoting false information.

The Google Chrome security team is getting tough on websites that are not encrypted. Those are the ones without the HTTPS at the beginning of its URL. Anyone looking at what you’re doing online on that site can capture all of your information, including important user names and passwords. Most of the pages desktop users […]