G7 plan will slash UK tax revenue from US tech firms, say experts Global changes could mean Treasury loses £230m from Google, Amazon, Facebook and eBay
France fines Google for abusing online advertising dominance Tech giant will pay £189m after settlement found it unfairly favoured its own tools for buying and selling ads
Global G7 deal may let Amazon off hook on tax, say experts Exclusive: communique from ministers suggests deal only applies to ‘profit exceeding a 10% margin’, which could rule out Amazon
Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’ The AI researcher on how natural resources and human labour drive machine learning and the regressive stereotypes that are baked into its algorithms
‘Silicon Six’ tech giants accused of inflating tax payments by almost $100bn Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports
Gadgets have stopped working together, and it’s becoming an issue Our reliance on technology means ever more devices and apps and ever less interoperability – and the ubiquity of Apple hasn’t helped
Skin in the frame: black photographers welcome Google initiative Attempt to tackle racial bias long overdue say practitioners, but it’s not just about the equipment
Demis Hassabis: the deep mind Dominic Cummings turned to as the pandemic hit The AI researcher and co-founder of Google’s DeepMind was one of many who pressed for an hard lockdown in March 2020
Thousands of YouTube comments on Sky News Australia video celebrate BLM activist being shot in head Exclusive: The racist and violent comments appear below a video news report about Sasha Johnson who was shot in the head in London
EU cites ‘anti-vaccine campaign’ as reason to toughen social media code European Commission proposes more factchecking and algorithm changes to tackle disinformation
ABC does deals with Google and Facebook that could see millions spent on regional news The broadcaster’s managing director says the agreements under Australia’s media code ‘will provide a huge boost to the regions’
Doctors fear Google skin check app will lead to ‘tsunami of overdiagnosis’ There are nearly 10bn Google searches for skin, nail and hair issues each year, prompting the tech giant to create a ‘dermatology assist tool’
Android 12: everything you need to know about Google’s update Upgrade is big design overhaul, improves speed and privacy and adds new features to Maps and Photos
‘Privacy by design’: Google to give people more power over their personal data New privacy controls include allowing people to quickly delete the last 15 minutes of their search history and more reminders about location tracking
Privacy activists are winning fights with tech giants. Why does victory feel hollow? Perhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech