Neowin News Feed for: Dragonfly

NASA announces new 8-year voyage to Titan to look for evidence of life

Paul Hill — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:14:02 +0000

NASA has announced that the fourth New Horizons mission will blast off for Saturn's moon, Titan, in 2026. Once it arrives in 2034 it'll be deployed to search for past or existing life. Read more...

Google employees say firm “must drop Dragonfly” China project

Paul Hill — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:46:01 +0000

Several Google employees have signed a letter urging the search giant to halt project Dragonfly, which is working on a China-oriented search product that would incorporate censorship. Read more...

Google's prototype search engine for China reportedly ties search data to phone numbers

Jay Bonggolto — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 09:58:01 +0000

Google's rumored search engine for the Chinese market, codenamed Dragonfly, is raising privacy concerns after it was found to be linking the users' search data to their phone numbers. Read more...

A majority of Google employees are content with offering a censored search engine in China

Hamza Jawad — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:56:01 +0000

As per a recent poll, 65% of surveyed Google Employees are okay with the company developing a censored search engine for China, in contrast to the general opinion being against this move. Read more...

Google reportedly developing censored version of its search engine for China

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:56:01 +0000

According to a new report, Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China. The project, dubbed Dragonfly, has reportedly been in the works since spring, last year. Read more...