One of the "godfathers of AI" Geoffrey Hinton is ditching his Google VP and engineering fellow gig to candidly chat about the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Hinton didn't hold back on concerns like AI deepfakes, misinformation, and the havoc it...
Google has decided to automatically delete abortion clinic visits from users’ location history following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The change will take effect in the coming weeks, but it’s unclear when and how soon the data will be deleted after a...
Google unveiled a new skin tone scale to address issues of racial bias in AI products and other related technology. Created in collaboration with Harvard professor and sociologist Ellis Monk [https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/ellis-monk], the 10-tone Monk Skin Tone Scale comes with a wider range of human...
Wing, Alphabet’s drone division, has surpassed 200,000 commercial air deliveries [https://blog.wing.com/2022/03/dispatches-from-australia-supermarket.html], excluding test flights, across global markets like Australia, Finland, and the United States since it began operations 2.5 years ago. In comparison, Zipline [https://flyzipline.com/], a drone-delivery startup...
Google's parent company Alphabet has deployed more than 100 autonomous robots [https://x.company/blog/posts/everyday-robots/] around its offices to do cleaning and run other errands. The robots were developed by Alphabet’s Everyday Robots [https://x.company/projects/everyday-robots/], a venture in the company’s experimental X division....
In a remarkable achievement, Alphabet’s Project Taara transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River in 20 days. Developed at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, Project Taara uses light beams to deliver a high-speed internet connection. Taara’s latest test transmitted data across the Congo River between Brazzaville...
