Tag: google

• 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 ›

• Zero Trust Information

  March 22, 2020

  Yesterday Google ordered its entire North American staff to work from home as part of an effort to limit the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. https://stratechery.com/2020/zero-trust-information/ more ›

• Google DeepMind gamifies memory with its latest AI work

  December 3, 2019

  The DeepMind use simulated environments to test how a “reinforcement learning” is able to complete tasks to receive rewards. You know when you’ve done something wrong, like putting a glass… more ›

• Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

  November 26, 2019

  This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This… more ›

• e-Conomy SEA 2019: Swipe up and to the right: Southeast Asia’s $100 billion internet economy

  November 11, 2019

  Companies are switching their focus from acquiring new customers to driving engagement. Their goal is to convince users to stay on their platforms for longer, in the belief that purchases… more ›