Tag: google
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Fake Campaign Supporters Exposed As Paid Actors (Video)
Flint residents were paying higher-than-average prices to be poisoned; Kerry the Fixer has a brand new “Plan B” for Syria; and, once again, the powers-that-shouldn’t-be are caught buying support.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Flint Water, Syria Partition, Fake Activists (Audio)
Flint residents were paying higher-than-average prices to be poisoned; Kerry the Fixer has a brand new “Plan B” for Syria; and, once again, the powers-that-shouldn’t-be are caught buying support.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 23, 2016
Space music, dumb phones and the ‘Mobile World’ order + this day in history w/Gitmo and our song of the day by Mavis Staples on your Morning Monarchy for February 23, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 9, 2016
Cyber budgets, data dumps and video games for peace + this day in history w/Halley’s Comet and our song of the day by The Villas on your Morning Monarchy for February 9, 2016.
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@TboltsProject: James Evan Pilato on MSM
James joins Michael Goodspeed of Thunderbolts Project for a different kind of episode that brings it down to Earth. Who owns what? Where do you think that idea came from? Why are you arguing about this? Who cares what’s selling – it’s what you’re buying. Download/Subscribe
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Activist group tells Google to offer ‘#RightToBeForgotten’ in USA
from 9to5google.com: It was ruled as part of the ‘right to be forgotten‘ case in Europe last year that individuals could request to have links removed from Google search results, and now another group is calling for that right to be expanded to the United States. An activist group on Tuesday filed a complaint with…
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Google’s AI Bot Thinks The Purpose Of Life Is ‘To Live Forever’
from businessinsider.com: This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence. Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to respond in conversations based on examples from a training set of dialogue. And the bot doesn’t just answer by spitting out canned answers…
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Inside Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program
from theatlantic.com: A zipping comes across the sky. A man named Neil Parfitt is standing in a field on a cattle ranch outside Warwick, Australia. A white vehicle appears above the trees, a tiny plane a bit bigger than a seagull. It glides towards Parfitt, pitches upwards to a vertical position, and hovers near him, a…
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Google CEO: 100,000 lives a year lost through fear of data-mining
from guardian.com: Fear of data-mining of healthcare could be costing as many as 100,000 lives a year, according to Google’s Larry Page. Speaking out in response to fears over his company’s vast haul of personal information, Page made the case that not only is Google not going too far with collecting and analysing such information…
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Google Unveils Self-Driving Car, Sans Steering Wheel
from cnet.com: Google has built a self-driving car from scratch — a vehicle that has no steering wheel or accelerator or brake pedals. A two-seater prototype of the vehicle was unveiled Tuesday by Google CEO Sergey Brin during an onstage interview at the Recode Code Conference in Palos Verdes, Calif. Instead of the car controls…
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Americans Will Never Have the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
from time.com: Americans shouldn’t expect the same privacy protections as in Europe, where a top court has ruled citizens have a “right to be forgotten” Privacy has just taken on new meaning in Europe. The European Union’s highest court has ruled that any of the region’s 500 million citizens can compel Google and other search…
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Google’s Nexus 6 to include an embedded fingerprint sensor
from biometricupdate.com: Google’s upcoming Nexus 6 smartphone could come with an embedded fingerprint sensor, according to prevailing rumors. Reported in Android Geeks, a ‘trusted insider’ told the website that Google would team up with LG to develop the new device and that the search giant is in advanced talks with “several Asian fingerprint sensor suppliers.”…
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Nest ‘Smart Meter’ Now Available on Google Play
from mobilesyrup.com: Google’s purchase of Nest has quickly borne fruit, at least in the distribution department, as the company made the Nest Learning Thermostat available to purchase for $249 CDN on the Play Store. Google spent $3.2 billion to purchase Nest earlier this year, and though the collaboration has yet to spawn any new products,…
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly greeted with calls for reform by major internet powerhouses like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo last year. But all four companies, along with dozens of…
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#Amazon Announces Its Own Streaming Device
from businessinsider.com: Tomorrow, Amazon will amp up its bid to take over your living room. At a media event in New York City, the company is expected to announce a new gadget — either a dongle or a box — that will let users stream video to their TVs from Amazon’s video library, as well…