Source : Project Soli
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On Thursday, Google said it had appealed the demand, and said one country should not be able to regulate the worldwide internet.
Source : Google accuses France of trying to apply its laws to global internet
The agreement gives DeepMind access to a wide range of healthcare data on the 1.6 million patients who pass through three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust – Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free – each year. This will include information about people who are HIV-positive, for instance, as well as details of drug overdoses and abortions. The agreement also includes access to patient data from the last five years.
Source : Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data | New Scientist
The former president of Motorola, who left the Lenovo-led handset maker last month, has been hired by Google to run a new division to unify the company’s disparate hardware projects
Source : Google is building a new hardware division under former Motorola chief Rick Osterloh – Recode
It isn’t pie in the sky. People are talking about 20 years. I think we will have it in five years.
Source : Head of Fiat Chrysler Sees Self-Driving Cars in Five Years, Not 20 – The New York Times
Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems, search engines and social media. Mobile market share and desktop market share data.
Source : Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems and search engines | NetMarketShare
Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition chief, said the European commission had taken the preliminary view that Google had abused its dominant position, following an initial one-year investigation. “What we found is that Google pursues an overall strategy on mobile devices to protect and expand its dominant position in internet search,” Vestager said.
Source : EU accuses Google of using Android to skew market against rivals | Technology | The Guardian
Unlike other forms of Google search, Google does not display advertising to book searchers, nor does it receive payment if a searcher uses Google’s link to buy a copy. Google’s book scanning project started in 2004. Working with major libraries like Stanford, Columbia, the University of California, and the New York Public Library, Google has scanned and made machine-readable more than 20 million books. Many of them are nonfiction and out of print.
Source : Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case | Ars Technica
Sidewalk Labs is a new type of company that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems.
Source : Sidewalk Labs