For over 40 years, NAACP’s ACT-SO program has prepared and recognized over 300,000 students’ academic and artistic excellence. Google.org is proud to support ACT-SO as they extend the program to thousands more. Learn more → goo.gle/2Rs6UQt... Read More

This Black History Month, we’re celebrating some of #TheMostSearched moments and individuals in America. To find them, we used U.S.-based Google Trends Data to identify Black American achievements that were searched more than any others between January 1, 2004 – when U.S. Search Data first became available – and July 1, 2019. Here’s to the history makers and all those they continue to inspire. ... Read More

Starting today, there will be American Sign Language (ASL) specialists to help people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing through video chat on the Google Disability Support team https://g.co/disabilitysupport... Read More

It’s easier than ever now to travel overseas, but language barriers that prevent us from connecting with each other still exist. With Conversation Mode on Google Translate, it automatically recognizes which of the two languages are being spoken, letting you have a fluid conversation without having to speak the same language. ... Read More

With the Google Assistant’s interpreter mode, you can now easily communicate with your customers — even if you don’t speak the same language. Interpreter mode translates 29 languages in real-time to help businesses have free flowing conversations with their guests at hotels, airports, customer service desks, organizations aiding humanitarian efforts and more.... Read More

The Google Assistant is built to keep your information private, safe and secure while helping make your life a little easier. Learn how the Google Assistant works to protect your privacy.... Read More

Biodiversity is in crisis. A recent UN report predicts we may see as many as 1 million species extincts, many as soon as within the decade. Wildlife Insights is a new Google Cloud -based platform that applies AI to identify animals in images from camera traps placed in the wild. AI helps reduce the arduous manual work of sifting through millions of camera trap images and helps biologists spend more time actually working to study and protect wildlife.... Read More

This is the story of the student who became a planet hunter. When Anne Dattilo attended a guest lecture at the University of Texas she had no idea it would be the start of a journey involving complex algorithms, a space telescope breaking down in orbit, a trip to an observatory in the Chihuahuan desert and, finally, the discovery of two new planets.... Read More

Local organizations, nonprofits, and community colleges across the country are using the free Applied Digital Skills curriculum to teach people practical skills they can use to find jobs, thrive in the workplace, or grow their small businesses. To learn more, visit https://g.co/applieddigitalskills/videos ... Read More