Tag: google

• Inside the Shifting Plans for Toronto’s Smart City of Tomorrow

  June 26, 2019

  What happens when a group of high-profile urban thinkers, capitalized by the vast wealth of a tech goliath, snags a parcel of public waterfront in a major North American city… more ›

• Top 100 global brands 2019: the full ranking

  June 16, 2019

  The duopoly is broken. Amazon has displaced fellow tech companies Apple and Google, which since 2007 have held the top two places in the BrandZ ranking of the 100 most… more ›

• It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

  May 29, 2019

  It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots… more ›

• Inside Google’s Civil War

  May 20, 2019

  It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google’s office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators at the company’s New… more ›

• Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program

  March 27, 2019

  In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/technology/google-robotics-lab.html more ›

• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence

  March 18, 2019

  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 ›

• The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

  March 16, 2019

  When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across… more ›

• This Person Does Not Exist

  March 2, 2019

  StyleGAN (Dec 2018) – Karras et al. and Nvidia Original GAN (2014) – Goodfellow et al. https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/?utm_source=Benedict%27s+newsletter&utm_campaign=411f18f2e8-Benedict%27s+Newsletter_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4999ca107f-411f18f2e8-70754709 more ›

• Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer

  February 19, 2019

  If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›

• Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens

  February 13, 2019

  I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds of cool industrial applications,… more ›