Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Saturday, August 19, 2017
By Mercury News, Aug. 19, 2017
But the Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning of the dangers of censoring speech, no matter how horrendous or offensive.
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Friday, May 5, 2017
By Reuters, May 04, 2017
The relatives assert that by allowing Islamic State militants to spread propaganda freely on social media, the three companies provided "material support" to the group and enabled attacks such as the one in San Bernardino.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
By Apple Insider, Feb. 06, 2017
Notably absent from the list are Amazon, HP, Oracle and Yahoo, though Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos are already backing the originating lawsuit lodged by Washington state's attorney general. The suit, which on Friday resulted in a temporary restraining order against Trump's ban, survived an attempted emergency stay initiated by the Department of Justice over the weekend.
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
By Yahoo, Nov. 17, 2016
Google had close ties with outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama's administration, and its employees donated much more to defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton than to the Republican Trump.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Google Accused Of “Abusive” Conduct In Privacy App Case
An award-winning company founded by former Google engineers is taking legal action against the search engine giant over claims it has engaged in a “pattern of abusive behavior” and is violating privacy rights on a “massive scale.”
Disconnect, a U.S. firm that designs privacy-enhancing technology, has filed a complaint with European antitrust regulators after its Android app was banned from the Google Play Store. The app was designed to protect smartphone users from invisible tracking and malware distributed through online advertisements.
The complaint was submitted earlier this month, but the full allegations were not made public at the time. The Intercept has obtained a copy of the 104-page complaint, which attacks Google over its claimed commitment to privacy and accuses the tech titan of trying to stop people from using the Disconnect app because it poses an “existential threat” to its revenue sources.
More: www.firstlook.org
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Sunday, January 18, 2015
VC Firms Rain Down Cash On Tech Startups, Is Bubble Brewing?
Brandon Bailey, Jan. 16, 2015, AP
Uber Technologies, the ride-hailing service disrupting the transportation industry and generating plenty of press, received the top two biggest rounds of investment last year. Each raised $1.2 billion for Uber, and the company's value is now pegged at $41 billion. Other major deals included $542 million (mostly from Google Inc.) invested in Magic Leap Inc., a secretive startup working on virtual reality technology; $500 million in Vice Media, which operates online news and video channels; and $485 million in SnapChat, the popular messaging service.
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Uber Technologies, the ride-hailing service disrupting the transportation industry and generating plenty of press, received the top two biggest rounds of investment last year. Each raised $1.2 billion for Uber, and the company's value is now pegged at $41 billion. Other major deals included $542 million (mostly from Google Inc.) invested in Magic Leap Inc., a secretive startup working on virtual reality technology; $500 million in Vice Media, which operates online news and video channels; and $485 million in SnapChat, the popular messaging service.
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
Fears For Children As Google Targets Under-13s
Cahal Milmo, Dec. 5, 2014, The Independent
Google declined yesterday to say which of its panoply of products – ranging from its basic and highly lucrative search facility to YouTube and its Google Plus social media service to the Chrome browser – are to be made child-friendly.
Read more: www.independent.co.uk
Google declined yesterday to say which of its panoply of products – ranging from its basic and highly lucrative search facility to YouTube and its Google Plus social media service to the Chrome browser – are to be made child-friendly.
Read more: www.independent.co.uk
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014
But fixing conservative author Dinesh D’Souza’s film search results will take time
Google said Tuesday that problems with the search results for the film America, from conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza, are being remedied but that the fix will take some time.
Google search results for the film make it difficult to find theaters where the movie is showing, apparently confusing the recently-released film with D’Souza’s earlier movie 2016: Obama’s America, which was in theaters in 2012.
On Monday, D’Souza’s lawyer wrote Google demanding that the problem be fixed and asking if human error was involved in the mixup.
“Our systems have unfortunately confused the title of the movieAmerica, because it’s a common term and appears in many movie titles,” a Google spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. “We’ve updated the Knowledge Graph, our database that stores this type of information, but it will take some time to display showtimes and other details for this movie. We’re always working on improving our systems, and we appreciate the feedback.”
Read the full story: www.time.com
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Americans now have more computer
power in their smart phones than did the Pentagon in all its computer banks
just 30 years ago. We board a sophisticated jet and assume that the flight is
no more dangerous than crossing the street.
The downside of this complete
reliance on computer gadgetry is a fundamental ignorance of what technology is.
Smart machines are simply the pumps that deliver the water of knowledge -- not
knowledge itself.
What does it matter that millions
of American students can communicate across thousands of miles instantly with
their iPads and iPhones if a poorly educated generation increasingly has little
to say?
The latest fad of near-insolvent
universities is to offer free iPads to students so that they can access
information more easily. But what if most undergraduates still have not been
taught to read well, think inductively or have some notion of history? Speeding
up their ignorance is not the same as imparting wisdom. Requiring a freshman
Latin course would be a far cheaper and wiser investment in mastering language,
composition and inductive reasoning than handing out free electronics.
Technology also confuses us about
the vast power and force of nature that remains more formidable than Yahoo or
Google. Computer models assured us that the Earth would be now be getting
really hot. But over the last 17 years, when carbon emissions reached historic
levels, temperatures mysteriously have stayed the same or cooled. Nature
remains fickle, complex and unfathomable, and can defy even computer-enhanced
theorizing.
When wind-chill temperatures fell
to 40 degrees below zero in the frigid Midwest this winter and there were
occasional storm-related power outages, was it better to have a
computer-controlled central heating system or an ax, some wood and a cast-iron
stove?
The politicos who peddled the
Affordable Care Act did so not just on the impossible logistics of giving more
coverage to more people at less cost. They also hyped their new user-friendly
website that would make getting health care no different from buying shoes on
Amazon.
Yet behind the cheery web pages on
our laptops lie millions of hours of complex computer programming -- as arcane
a task as deciphering Byzantine Greek manuscripts. Technological failure has
all but sidetracked Obamacare. And the resulting shock is not surprising, given
how something so difficult to do was sold to us as if it were already done.
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