Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Ignorance Is Futile: The genius behind the Google machine is that when we use the Internet we help make it’s A.I. smarter and more powerful, and on the other hand the growing trend is to make the entire Internet “semantic“. By merely using the Internet, we’re all in effect helping to build ‘Skynet’, so something [...]

PeterGreenberg: Search engine giant Google took the travel industry by storm last week with a $700 million purchase of ITA Software, a flight-information software company. ITA offers flight times, availabilities and prices to airlines and Web sites that include: TripAdvisor, Bing, Hotwire, Orbitz, Continental, American Airlines, and Alitalia. The multi-million-dollar deal would not only put [...]

Ignorance Is Futile: It wasn’t until I saw my employer pull out a new Android phone recently did I realized the next level in privacy matters: business trade secrets. You’d be hard pressed to find a much stauncher critic of cute & cuddly Google than yours truly, yet somehow I hadn’t pondered this realm. Of [...]

New York Times: ON a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for a nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University, saw it happen. While the flesh-and-blood version of Mr. Brin sat miles away at a computer [...]