Collaborate Disseminate
Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed. Continue reading Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’
In earnings reported this week, Alphabet announced that Google Cloud generated a robust $2.61 billion for the quarter, a number that includes revenue from both Google Cloud Platform and G Suite. That puts the division on a nice little run rate of $10.44 billion. It feels like a lot until you consider that Microsoft had a […] Continue reading Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go
Google’s parent company Alphabet reports a total revenue of $46.08 billion in Q4 2019, with YouTube bringing in a total ad revenue of $15 billion in 2019.
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as Alphabet leaders, handing off their responsibilities to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Read the full memo written by a departing Google employee on his experience as a Black person at Google. Continue reading Here’s the Memo About the ‘Burden of Being Black at Google’
Google and its flagship search portal opened the door to the possibilities of how to build a business empire on the back of organising and navigating the world’s information, as found on the internet. Now, a startup that’s built a search engine tailored to the needs of enterprises and their own quests for information has […] Continue reading AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors
It’s outside of Sidewalk Labs HQ in Toronto, where Google’s sister company is working on stuffing the city with data-collecting sensors. Continue reading Apple aims privacy billboard at Google’s controversial smart-city
Alphabet’s moonshot appears to have flown off course. Google Cloud announced on Thursday it will takeover Chronicle, the cybersecurity company that Alphabet launched last year as part of its “moonshot program.” Chronicle began as an independent Alphabet company led by former Symantec chief operating officer Stephen Gillett. Chronicle launched its first product, the analytics tool Backstory, in March. “Chronicle’s products and engineering team complement what Google cloud offers,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian wrote in a blog post. “Chronicle’s VirusTotal malware intelligence services will be a powerful addition to the pool of threat data informing Google Cloud offerings, and will continue to support applications running on our platforms.” The companies are scheduled to be completely combined by the fall, Kurian added. This change comes after Google Cloud purchased Looker, a data analytics provider, for $2.6 billion with an eye on accelerating that company’s growth. Google said at the time that […]
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How a whimsical online game became an enterprise software giant. Continue reading The Slack origin story
Yesterday Alphabet (formerly known as Google) announced that their Wing project is launching delivery services per drone in Finland, specifically in a part of Helsinki. This comes more than a month after starting a similar pilot program in North Canberra, Australia. The drone design Wing has opted for consists not …read more