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Uber Sacks Star Engineer Accused of Spying On Google

Uber has sacked the man at the centre of an ongoing legal scandal in which Google has accused the taxi-hailing company...

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Uber Fires Engineer At Center of Trade Secret Suit

Uber on Tuesday confirmed that it has fired an engineer accused in a trade secrets suit involving files he purportedly...

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Lyft Partners With Alphabet’s Waymo To Launch Self-Driving Cars

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...

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Lyft, Waymo To Cooperate On Self-Driving Cars

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...

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Alphabet’s Verily To Embark On Health-Mapping Study

Alphabet's life sciences unit Verily on Wednesday announced a study to track people for years, right down to their...

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Apple Granted Self-Driving Test Permit

Apple has been granted a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of California. It has long been known that...

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Google’s Driverless Cars Make Progress

The number of human interventions in journeys made by driverless cars from Google company Waymo in California more than...

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We Did Not Steal Google’s Self-Driving Tech

Uber has said claims it used self-driving technology stolen from Google were “demonstrably false”. Waymo – a...

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Google’s Self-Driving Firm Sues Uber

Uber is being sued for stealing trade secrets and technology from Google. Waymo, set up by Google owner Alphabet, is...

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Alphabet’s ‘Loon’ Internet Plan Closer To Deployment

In the hopes of bringing internet access to even the most remote corners of the globe, Google parent Alphabet's 'Loon'...

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Google Coding Champion Whose Cameroon Hometown Is Cut Off From the Internet

The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his...

International

The Google Coding Champion With No Internet

The first African winner in Google's annual coding competition is 370km (230 miles) from home, sitting outside his...

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Alphabet Creates New Self-Driving Car Business Called Waymo

Google parent company Alphabet Inc. is separating its self-driving car business into a new unit called Waymo, seeking...