Sergey Brin gestures after riding in a driverless car with California Jerry Brown

Sergey Brin gestures after riding in a driverless car with California Jerry Brown
... celebrating an imaginary Google service allowing the public to ride the private shuttles, "Google Buses," for free since MUNI is in crisis, and a fare hike is imminent.
Breaking the rules of a civil society: Activists target a Google engineer at his Berkeley home
Around 7AM on January 21st, 2014, a small group of protesters gathered in the driveway of an understated $1 million four bedroom family home in Berkeley and unfurled a hand-painted banner that read "GOOGLE’S FUTURE STOPS HERE."
Even if you're careful about choosing how and where your email is sent, chances are you reply to plenty of messages sent from Gmail. And, as it turns out, that probably means that Google has most of your email, whether you like it or not.
"The Jetsons" gave us the dream of a robot designed to help. "The Terminator" gave us the nightmare of a machine designed to kill. The future is apparently here.
Le principe technique de l’internet, c’est le contournement des obstacles, il doit bien être possible de contourner Google. Hier donc, on s’est aperçu qu’un monde sans Google était un monde possible. Monde souhaitable ou désirable, c’est une autre question. Mais au moins, c’est un monde possible.
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists
Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA