Tag: alphabet

• Apple has finally met its Fortnite match

  August 15, 2020

  Epic Games executed its most ambitious Fortnite live event yesterday, leading both Apple and Google to remove one of the world’s most popular games from their app stores. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/14/21368651/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-ban-lawsuit-epic-games-payments more ›

• Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn

  July 26, 2020

  Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”. Google’s Keywords Planner, which helps advertisers choose which search terms to associate with their… more ›

• Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy

  July 13, 2020

  Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner… more ›

• Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

  July 12, 2020

  This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI)… more ›

• Alphabet’s Loon starts beaming internet from balloons in Kenya

  July 9, 2020

  Alphabet’s Loon project has finally launched its internet-delivery balloons in Africa following a deal with the Kenyan government. It marks a significant milestone for Loon, once one of Google’s “moonshot”… more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  June 28, 2020

  One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. https://www.1843magazine.com/features/deepmind-and-google-the-battle-to-control-artificial-intelligence more ›

• Federated Analytics: Collaborative Data Science without Data Collection

  May 30, 2020

  Federated learning, introduced in 2017, enables developers to train machine learning (ML) models across many devices without centralized data collection, ensuring that only the user has a copy of their… more ›

• Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn’t Plan to Go Entirely Remote

  May 23, 2020

  Sundar Pichai’s job wasn’t particularly easy before Covid-19. https://www.wired.com/story/sundar-pichai-google-not-entirely-remote/ more ›

• Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

  May 20, 2020

  Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21262934/google-alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-pandemic-coronavirus more ›

• ‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive

  May 2, 2020

  In July 2016, Raymond Thomas, a four-star general and head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, hosted a guest: Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google. General Thomas, who served in… more ›