Google has responded to allegations it \u201ccensored<\/a>\u201d searches about Donald Trump after Elon Musk baselessly claimed the company had imposed a \u201csearch ban\u201d on the former president. Google explained the bugs in its autocomplete feature caused the issues. But Musk\u2019s tweet, viewed more than 118 million times, has forced the search giant to publicly explain one of its most basic features.<\/p>\n Google added that the strange suggestions for \u201cpresident donald\u201d were due to a \u201cbug that spanned the political spectrum.\u201d It also affected searches related to former President Barack Obama and other political figures.<\/p>\n \u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u200b\u200bYou can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. <\/em>Subscribe right here!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September. The Perplexity Publishers\u2019 Program comes less than two months after the startup, valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes<\/em>, Wired<\/em> and Cond\u00e9 Nast for allegedly scraping content without permission.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A new blog post from Samsung highlights how law enforcement is adopting its Galaxy Z Flip series devices. The line of foldable mobile devices was part of a pilot program, two years ago, in Kimberling City Police and Indian Point Police in Missouri, to test how the phones might improve daily operations. According to Samsung, the program was the first time police used a foldable device as a bodycam. The foldables were customized in collaboration with Visual Labs, a company that repurposes mobile devices as body and dash cameras.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Italian scientists have built a quadruped robot that can identify litter and pick up the smaller bits with its leg-mounted vacuums. The group published a paper in April\u2019s Journal of Field Robotics<\/em> on VERO\u2019s development. Discarded butts release toxic chemicals and microplastics into the ocean as they break down. It\u2019s also the \u201csecond most common undisposed waste worldwide\u201d in areas that are hard to reach for most robots. VERO picked up 90 percent of the cigarette butts identified in testing.<\/p>\nThe biggest stories you might have missed<\/h3>\n
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