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The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

October 23, 2017

The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

#AI #Car #Google #Links

Originally developed as a way to “play back” scenes that the cars experienced while driving on public roads, Carcraft, and simulation genera...

Google will Penalize all sites Sharing widgets, Plugins and Templates

October 03, 2017

Google will Penalize all sites Sharing widgets, Plugins and Templates

Google keeps on changing its algorithms and policies regarding link building and link exchange. This time around, in their updated link sch...

The New York Times: “Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, with One Big Exception” 2018

September 11, 2017

The New York Times: “Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, with One Big Exception” 2018

#Google #Links #Politics

The survey suggests a novel but paradoxical vision of the future of American politics: Technologists could help push lawmakers, especially D...

Backreaction: “Outraged about the Google diversity memo? I want you to think about it” 2018

September 04, 2017

Backreaction: “Outraged about the Google diversity memo? I want you to think about it” 2018

#Google #Links #Office

I also have to spell out that I am writing this as a European who now works in Europe again. For me, the most relevant contribution to equal...

The Atlantic: “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria” 2018

The Atlantic: “Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria” 2018

#Book #Google #Links #USA

By 2002, it seemed to Page like the time might be ripe to come back to books. With that 40-minute number in mind, he approached the Universi...

Bloomberg: “Google will Stop Reading your Emails for Gmail Ads” 2018

Bloomberg: “Google will Stop Reading your Emails for Gmail Ads” 2018

#Google #Links #Mail #Privacy

Ads will continue to appear inside the free version of Gmail, as promoted messages. But instead of scanning a user’s email, the ads will now...

Privacy News: “Apple Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention can not prevent tracking” 2018

Privacy News: “Apple Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention can not prevent tracking” 2018

#Apple #Facebook #Google #Links #Privacy

Furthermore, whereas Apple’s approach to tracking scripts with Safari is welcomed - it would be incredibly naïve to believe that this techno...

NewCo Shift: “How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time” 2018

NewCo Shift: “How to Detect Fake News in Real-Time” 2018

#Google #Links #News

Real-time detection, in this context, does not mean seconds. It may be unnecessary to take action if it does not spread. In practice, rapid ...

The Guardian: “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” 2018

The Guardian: “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” 2018

#Facebook #Google #Links #News #Search

They have created a web that is bleeding through on to our web. This isn’t a conspiracy. There isn’t one person who’s created this. It’s a v...

Justin O’Beirne: “A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps” 2018

Justin O’Beirne: “A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps” 2018

#Apple #Apps #Google #Links #Maps

This all seems to suggest that Google’s location data is more precise than Apple’s. (Or that Apple’s geocoder is buggy.) And perhaps here we...

Slate Star Codex: “Silicon Valley: A Reality Check” 2018

Slate Star Codex: “Silicon Valley: A Reality Check” 2018

#Facebook #Google #Links

When Capitol Hill screws up, tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis get killed. When Wall Street screws up, the country is plunged into rece...

Google Research Blog: “Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data” 2018

Google Research Blog: “Federated Learning: Collaborative Machine Learning without Centralized Training Data” 2018

#AI #Google #Links #Mobile

It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the chang...

The New York Times: “The Great A.I. Awakening” 2018

The New York Times: “The Great A.I. Awakening” 2018

#AI #Google #Links

It is important to note, however, that the fact that neural networks are probabilistic in nature means that they’re not suitable for all ta...

The Keyword: “Gboard for iPhone gets an upgrade” 2018

February 28, 2017

The Keyword: “Gboard for iPhone gets an upgrade” 2018

#Apps #Google #iPhone #Links #Review #Updates

In May 2016, you first met Gboard, our app that let you search and send information, GIFs, emoji and more, right from your keyboard. In Ju...

The Keyword: “Introducing a smarter and more beautiful Google Play Newsstand” 2018

November 17, 2016

The Keyword: “Introducing a smarter and more beautiful Google Play Newsstand” 2018

#Apps #Google #Links #News #Updates

Today, we are announcing a complete redesign of Newsstand that focuses on three big improvements: personalization, rich media, and the exte...

BuzzFeed News: “Renegade Facebook Employees form Task Force to battle Fake News” 2018

November 15, 2016

BuzzFeed News: “Renegade Facebook Employees form Task Force to battle Fake News” 2018

#Facebook #Google #Internet #Links #Social

It’s not a crazy idea. What’s crazy is for him to come out and dismiss it like that, when he knows, and those of us at the company know, th...

Android Central: “A weekend with Google Home: Where’s the magic?” 2018

November 10, 2016

Android Central: “A weekend with Google Home: Where’s the magic?” 2018

#Gadgets #Google #Links

Sorry, I don’t know how to help with that. But my team is helping me learn. I’ve heard that phrase, or some variant of it, 47 times since ...

Quartz: “Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct” 2018

November 08, 2016

Quartz: “Google’s AI won the game Go by defying millennia of basic human instinct” 2018

#AI #Games #Google #Links

The AlphaGo-Lee Sedol matchup was an intense contest between human and artificial intelligence. But it also contained several moves made by...

ProPublica: “Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking” 2018

October 24, 2016

ProPublica: “Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking” 2018

#Google #Links #Privacy

And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick’s massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names...

Google Design: “Redesigning Chrome desktop” 2018

September 23, 2016

Google Design: “Redesigning Chrome desktop” 2018

#Chrome #Design #Google #Links #Updates

In the beginning of this month of September, the new Chrome Core UI redesign, or so called “Chrome MD” (for Material design), rolled out on...