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>> briefly, if google did make a decision to not operate in russia because of this, if they pulled out of russia in the way they pulled out of china, particularly if russia is going to say you have to have employees here in order to operate here, and, by the way, well threaten to arrest them whenever you dont do what we want, if they chose to pull out of russia, would it cost them a lot of money? is russia a big revenue generator for them? >> so they dont disclose their revenue in russia. there ...

Google could decide just not to make any advertising and they could go out and say were providing a service to russians we think important. thus far the company thinks that the financial benefits of remaining there are clearly outweighing the costs. >> unsustainable. i wont put that on you. i wont ask you to respond to it, but to me its absolutely unsustainable. mark bergen, reporter for bloomberg technology. thank you for helping us understand this. its a pleasure to have you. >> thank you so m...

Image: Getty. Illustration: Chloe Krammel This morning, Google is announcing the next steps in its plan to disrupt the world of education, including the launch of new certificate programs that are designed to help people bridge any skills gap and get qualifications in high-paying, high-growth job fields--with one noteworthy feature:  No college degree necessary. The new tools could be a game changer for a growing number of people who consider the current educational system broken, or for t...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Google employees are demanding the company rehire and promote a Black research scientist who spoke out for more women and people of color. As NPRs Bobby Allyn reports, her ouster has led many inside and outside the company to question whether Google can tolerate views that challenge its culture. And we should note Google is a financial sponsor of NPR. BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: When Google ousted researcher Timnit Gebru, she felt targeted. TIMNIT GEBRU: My theory is that they...

And board member. he joins me. >> the crux of the argument is that the crown jewel of googles r & d effort are the artificial intelligence technology, and this ai means a lot of different things. it could be used in a lot of different ways but it clearly has a lot of military applications for processing satellite images, helping create process data, automating drone warfare, cyber warfare all these ways at ai is a dual use thing, like nuclear technology has both military and civilian uses. there...

China? >> well you can always speculate on whats actually going on inside google. i think googles self-image would be that its globalist, its-national somehow, cost month poly tan. i think the reality is more that its incredibly zeroing in on the google example where the ai deep mind effort was described by its own founder as a manhattan project for ai, so even though this was meant as probably marketing hyperbole in a way, i think that people outside the u.s. might very well take that literally...

This and we are going to find out whether you discriminated on these bases. >> when you say respond to discovery, what you are saying is you want to see documents from inside google that supports what james said is political bias against conservatives? >> oh, absolutely. political bias and, you know, its not just documents that this will have to answer some questions us. really we get to delve into employment practices and see what they do behind the scenes. notoriously opaque process. californi...

On various devices and how they keep that data so google home like amazon echo, you can see what is being reported and it is always good. like your smoke alarm, change the battery, that is what is happening. did we agree to something in the fine print? >> did a change when you update your phone? >> it might be something different. with regard to phone settings a whole other story with regard to personal private data inside google. that is what we want to be focused on and what we want to focus c...

A censored mobile search app in china so they are very well aware that its business as intertwined was a national security issues and i think its becoming more and more clear to people both inside google and elsewhere that after you know the facebook cambridge analytical scandal and weve become aware that some of these companies are not doing a very good job taking care of user information and in fact using information has been really being sold to the high spitter regardless whether the highest...

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