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January 18th, 2019
Starting today, we’re accepting applications for the 2019 North America Google Policy Fellowship. Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups. In addition to opportunities in Washington, D.C., and California, we’ve expanded our program to include…
January 17th, 2019
In 2013, the MIT Media Lab started creating a new version of Scratch, a graphical, block-based programming language used by tens of millions of kids to create and share interactive stories, games, and animations. We partnered with the Media Lab on this new version of the language—Scratch 3.0—and the Google Blockly team developed the programming…
January 17th, 2019
A man who never finished college from Nebraska, a U.S. Army medical specialist from Kentucky and a mother of five from California. They’re three different people who have something pretty special in common: they were able to jump-start their careers with the Google IT Support Professional Certificate. It’s a first-of-its-kind online program from Grow with…
January 16th, 2019
After a long day, it should be easy to hit the hay at night. But far too often, just as you’re about to drift off, you decide to check why your phone just buzzed…and you’re back to square one. According to the National Sleep Foundation, most adults should aim to get between seven and nine…
January 16th, 2019
There’s nothing quite like driving through Los Angeles on a perfectly sunny day. But for drivers, the beauty of Southern California’s great weather and scenery is ruined by one thing: traffic. According to a report by INRIX, my hometown is the worst city in the world for traffic, with a record of 102 hours of…
January 16th, 2019
What was new with Google Cloud in 2018? Well, it depends on what particular cloud technology you’re interested in. There was plenty of news on the AI and machine learning front, along with developments on a variety of enterprise cloud components. The open cloud community continued to be a thriving place to collaborate, and Google…
January 16th, 2019
Katy Byron is the Editor and Program Manager of MediaWise at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. MediaWise is part of the Google News Initiative and is a Google.org funded partnership between The Poynter Institute, the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), the Local Media Association (LMA) and the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE). Mediawise…
January 16th, 2019
In my twelve years at Google, I’ve seen that big things happen when you don’t shy away from big ideas—especially when you pair those ideas with emerging technology. We’re trying to encourage more of that kind of thinking with the Google AI Impact Challenge, a call for organizations to use AI to help address social,…