Google Apologizes For Tagging Photos Of Black People As ‘Gorillas'

When Jacky Alciné checked his Google Photos app earlier this week, he noticed it labeled photos of himself and a friend, both black, as “gorillas.”

The Brooklyn programmer posted his screenshots to Twitter to call out the app’s faulty photo recognition software:

Google’s Self Driving Cars To Hit Roads This Summer, With Brakes And Steering Wheels

Google Inc will begin testing self-driving cars of its own design on public roads this summer, but they will have steering wheels and brakes, which is not what the company described a year ago.

Engineers will operate 25 prototype vehicles, which use the same software as Google's self-driving Lexus RX450h sport utility vehicles that have been in operation for several years, the company said on May 15.

When the Internet search company announced a year ago that it planned to build a fleet of self-driving cars, project director Chris Urmson said the prototypes "won't have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal or brake pedal ... because they don't need them."

Members of the media take photos of a Google self-driving vehicle at the Computer History Museum after a presentation in Mountain View, California. | Source: Reuters