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“YouTube Music is Google’s most direct competitor to Spotify yet, coming with “a reimagined mobile app” and a new desktop player, both of them designed specifically for music. The YouTube advantage, argues Google, is that it will combine all the official versions of songs with access to “thousands” of related playlists, remixes, covers, live versions, and of course, music videos. Google’s AI mastery is also being integrated into YouTube Music, with the promise that the app will discover songs either by lyric or just a general description”.

Source : YouTube Music and YouTube Premium announced as YouTube Red replacements – The Verge

Back in 2015…

Today, the video giant is rolling out a new app, YouTube Music, that attempts to capitalize on its dominance in this space. The app is free, and you can use it in free, ad-supported mode, but it becomes a lot more powerful and interesting if you pay for a YouTube Red subscription.

Source : YouTube Music is here, and it’s a game changer | The Verge

“With Google’s AI assistant making calls on our behalf, I worry it will become easier for us to abuse small businesses. If it’s as simple as telling Google Duplex to make an appointment, it’s just as easy to constantly reschedule or not show up altogether because there’s no connection between you and the human worker who picked up the phone to arrange your reservation. You don’t feel bad for the number of requests and changes when someone (or something) else is doing it for you”.

Source : Google Duplex is Silicon Valley’s latest experiment at the expense of the service industry – The Verge

“The Selfish Ledger positions Google as the solver of the world’s most intractable problems, fueled by a distressingly intimate degree of personal information from every user and an ease with guiding the behavior of entire populations. There’s nothing to suggest that this is anything more than a thought exercise inside Google, initiated by an influential executive. But it does provide an illuminating insight into the types of conversations going on within the company that is already the world’s most prolific personal data collector.”

Source : Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering – The Verge

Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

«Epstein’s group asked 661 Americans to pick one of two candidates in an Australian election. Since it was presumed they did not know much about Antipodean politics, the participants were instructed to research them with a Google-type search engine that offered the usual autocomplete suggestions when words were typed in. However, the researchers also varied the search suggestions shown beneath a candidate’s name, including a range of positive and negative words. The results were stark. When participants were later questioned about their voting preferences, changing the ratio of positive to negative suggestions in the autocomplete was shown to be capable of shifting the preferences of undecided voters by nearly 80 per cent — even though participants seemed free to search for any material they wanted».

Source : Facebook or Google — which should worry us more?

«Chat is a carrier-based service, not a Google service. It’s just “Chat,” not “Google Chat.” In a sign of its strategic importance to Google, the company has spearheaded development on the new standard, so that every carrier’s Chat services will be interoperable. But, like SMS, Chat won’t be end-to-end encrypted, and it will follow the same legal intercept standards. In other words: it won’t be as secure as iMessage or Signal».

Source : Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess – The Verge

«Les early adopters qui peuvent démocratiser une technologie ont adopté le réflexe des messageries chiffrées de bout en bout. Apple chiffre les messages de ses clients par défaut et sur Android, WhatsApp ou Signal le font également. Le RCS est un standard aux mains des opérateurs, Google et ses partenaires n’étant que des relais, des points de réception. Cela signifie qu’un message RCS n’est pas sécurisé, peut être intercepté et reste sur le réseau des opérateurs qui ne sont pas connus pour être les derniers à plier aux demandes des autorités».

Source : Battu par Apple et Facebook, Google a un plan ambitieux pour réinventer le SMS – Tech – Numerama

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