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Rolls-Royce, Google Cloud Sign Landmark Deal
The maritime industry's exhaustive push toward autonomy just received a boost in the form of a deal signed between Rolls-Royce and Google to develop further its intelligent awareness systems. The agreement was signed at the Google Cloud Summit in Sweden, and it allows Rolls-Royce to use Google's Cloud Machine Learning Engine to further train the company's artificial intelligence based object classification system for detecting, identifying and tracking the objects a vessel can encounter at sea.
Google, Facebook help spread bad info after Las Vegas attack
In the immediate aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, people turned to Facebook and Google, looking for news about what happened and, in some cases, updates about their friends and loved ones in the area. Perhaps the most egregious strain of misinformation took hold after far-right trolls gathered on 4chan, a forum in which individuals are permitted to post almost anything anonymously, and, through some amateur online sleuthing, misidentified the shooter.
Google, Facebook help spread bad information after Las Vegas attack
In the immediate aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting, people turned to Facebook and Google, looking for news about what happened and, in some cases, updates about their friends and loved ones in the area. Perhaps the most egregious strain of misinformation took hold after far-right trolls gathered on 4chan, a forum in which individuals are permitted to post almost anything anonymously, and, through some amateur online sleuthing, misidentified the shooter.
Mattel baby monitor listens, raises child-privacy concerns
Toymaker Mattel has announced plans to sell a nursery gadget that will listen to infants and watch over them, record their sleep patterns, and even play a lullaby should they awaken. Skeptics are asking if the device, similar to Amazon.com's Echo with its Alexa voice assistant, will violate children's privacy and deepen a trend of surrendering intimate human connections to technology that talks and listens.
Will New Driverless Guidelines Jump-Start the Industry?
The Department of Transportation recently released revised guidelines for driverless cars, relaxing some guidelines put out during the Obama administration last year. For example, a 15-point safety assessment was trimmed to just 12 points, and the guidelines no longer apply to Level 2 vehicles with partial automation such as crash-avoidance features.
Netanyahu at the U.N.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said of President Trump's speech at the U.N today, "In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech." Netanyahu's speech to the U.N. wasn't bad either.
Daniel K. Inouye, Southwestern US, Wisconsin Food, More: Wednesday Afternoon Buzz, August 30, 2017
University of Hawaii: Sen. Inouye's congressional papers available to the public . "The congressional archival papers of the late Daniel K. Inouye, who served 53 years in Congress, 50 in the U.S. Senate, are now available to the public via the University of Hawai i at Manoa Library Congressional Papers Collection.
Sorry Tucker Carlson: Just because you hate Google’s decision doesn’t …
Maybe Tucker Carlson should start wearing bow-ties again. He seemed to be less supportive of big government solutions when he was wearing bowties.
Tech companies seem to get away with a lot – except when they don’t:…
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Google memos and pro-Trump cakes: When free speech values collide
Not too long ago, most people agreed on certain values when it came to free speech: "I disagree with your message but tolerate your right to say it." To be sure, that value created costs, but it seemed worthwhile to most.
What does Android “Airplane Mode” Disable?
I would like to be able to drop off the grid with my LG running Android when I'm meditating, but still receive notifications. Can I do that with Airplane Mode? You're asking to have your proverbial cake and eat it too: You can't be "off the grid" and still receive notifications because they are diametrically opposed to each other.
Google wants law enforcement to have more access to overseas data
PanARMENIAN.Net - Alphabet Inc's Google will press U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, June 22 to update laws on how governments access customer data stored on servers located in other countries, hoping to address a mounting concern for both law enforcement officials and Silicon Valley, Reuters says. The push comes amid growing legal uncertainty, both in the United States and across the globe, about how technology firms must comply with government requests for foreign-held data.
Google gives grant to preserve oral history of Stonewall Inn
The philanthropic wing of the internet search giant Google says it is donating $1 million to preserve an oral history of the 1969 Stonewall riots. Sen. Chuck Schumer made the announcement Sunday that Google.org, the company's philanthropy branch, is donating the grant to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center to start the oral history project.
Project Wing drone tested with Intel drone, DJI drone. Photo: Project Wing
Larry Page, co-founder of Google and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, promised in his annual shareholder's letter that there would be exciting things happening with Project Wing this year. Project Wing is the company's drone delivery project.
Google’s drone delivery project just shared some big news…
Larry Page, cofounder of Google and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, promised in his annual shareholder's letter that there would be exciting things happening with Project Wing this year. Project Wing is the company's drone delivery project.
Trump faces tough task unwinding Obama Cuba policy
President Barack Obama's 2014 opening with Cuba helped funnel American travel dollars into military-linked tourism conglomerates even as state security agents waged a fierce crackdown on dissent. The rapprochement also poured hundreds of millions in U.S. spending into privately owned businesses on the island, supercharging the growth of an entrepreneurial middle-class independent of the communist state.
Unilever Invests in Inner Beauty Firm Nutrafol
When multinationals start investing, the promise of nutritional beauty supplements is turning into a reality. Nutrafol, a nutraceutical supplement for healthy hair growth for men and women, has closed its series A financing round.
Federal appeals court upholds Google trademark
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit that aimed to cancel Google's trademark by arguing that "google" is now synonymous with searching the internet. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday it was not enough to show that people use the verb "google" generically to refer to searching the web.
Samsung Galaxy S8 breaks S7 records
A separate update will deal with the inability to connect to certain high-speed Wi-Fi networks used by a local carrier and doesn't mean there is a hardware issue with the S8, Samsung said . The Galaxy S8 offers an all-screen front, repositioned fingerprint scanner, iris and facial recognition, a new voice assistant called Bixby , plus the latest Google Android software.