When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content or have their services shut down locally,
Google and Twitter both have large archives of notices theye shared on Chilling Effects. But Facebook abstains from this transparency practice.
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Some users may see a lite version of Malaysia Airlineswebsite as the air carrier restores access to its site.
It unclear whether or not Lizard Squad is linked actually to Cyber Caliphate a hacker group that claims to be associated with ISIS. Last month Cyber Caliphate took control of the U s. central military command Twitter and Youtube accounts.
#Google Joins Apple Others Cutting off Crimea Blocks Adwords Adsense Google Play Yet more developments around how U s. sanctions on Crimea in retaliation against Russia annexation by Russia are being adopted by tech companies:
Google is the latest to start complying with the orders to block import and export of tech products and services among other things.
According to multiple reports out of Russia Google has started now to block Adsense and Adwords accounts in the region
and from February 1 it will also cease Google Play services but it will continue to allow access to free Web-based services like Google search Google+Gmail
and Maps. anctions have recently been imposed on Crimea by the US and the EU. We are complying with thema Google spokesperson confirmed to Techcrunch.
The move comes after Apple expanded its own implementation of the sanctions from developers to products
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
and Google is a key player in other web services. It also come up more than once against authorities in restrictive countries concerned about
While Google has yet to specify to us which services are impacted Russian press reports that Google is paid initially cutting off services specifically B2b products like Adsense and Adwords.
And even if Google did decide to circumvent U s. laws (which it is not) it wouldn be able to collect money for services
and out of the country. oogle prohibited from providing paid services in the Crimeaa source at Google told Lenta. ru. n addition Google cannot make payments to anyone in the Crimea.
It is now technically impossible as almost all international banks have ceased to make payments. ater the block will extend to apps via Google Play
The Russian agency ITAR-TASS reports that Google will be ending Google Play services both paid and free in the region from February 1 as they fall under the restrictions on the import
and export of services. rom February 1 we will start to limit access to apps in Google Play
Access will continue to free services Google such as search Gmail and Google Mapsa Google source told the agency.
The backstory here is that Crimea a peninsula with less than 2 million residents is effectively a pawn in a chess game between much bigger powers the U s. and Russia.
you can sync all of those notes to the team Dropbox or Google Drive for easy record keeping D
but the mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) that the full name of what was called previously the owler Ridge IV Wind Projectwill only be used to power Amazon AWS data centers.
As Amazon announced last November, its long-term goal is o achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for the global AWS infrastructure footprint.
US WEST (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt) and its AWS Govcloud. mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) will bring a new source of clean energy to the electric grid where we currently operate a large number of datacenters
said Jerry Hunter, Vice president of Infrastructure at Amazon web services, in today announcement. his power purchase agreement helps to increase the renewable energy used to power our infrastructure in the US
While Google has made various wind energy investments over the last few years this is Amazon first (or at least the first one it is publicly talking about) s
#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning
but the web interfaces for Microsoft webmail services were not. That is Outlook. com and Login. live. com were affected not.
Affected users were shown warning messages in their email clients that weren as immediately worrisome as those web browsers display which means that some users may not have been aware that an attack was taking place.
However when Greatfire. org reproduced the same result via the Firefox web browser the message the browser offers is far more detailed saying also that the error could means hat someone is trying to impersonate the site
It also one of many recent MITM attacks in China including those affecting services from Google Yahoo
Apple note which has been reproduced in more than one place online (including here on Russian-language tech site Habrahabr
Putin government has put in place measures for tracking data on websites and restrictions on certain types of content.
This has resulted in some sites like Github getting blocked and others like Intel shutting down some of their online operations u
It a technique that has been popularized a by Geoff Hinton who is now at Google and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.
and artificial intelligence projects in academic labs and at companies like Google Twitter and Intel. Facebook today is optimized launching tools to increase the speed at
Google+Photos for example uses it to allow you to find images in your photo library.
Just look at the Google Trends for the word ronesor JI. Check out the number of drone videos on Youtube (827
000). ) According to Frost and Sullivan, an aerospace research firm, over 200,000 drones were sold each month in 2014.
Companies like Bouygues, Balfour Beatty and Webcor are using drones to map construction sites. They are employing drones made by Skycatch,
punch in your destination via Google maps, and be driven by a computer, guiding your destination while avoiding all other air traffic.
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
Lars Rasmussen the engineering director at Facebook who is heading up the project had in his past once headed up one of the failed efforts at an enterprise social network Google Wave.
and the knowledge of a failure of doing this at a different companyhe says referring of course to Google Wave. thought that maybe Facebook experience was
#Ford#s Applink Will Soon Support Third-party Navigation Apps Most carsbuilt-in navigation systems tend to be compared a bit clunky to modern smartphone apps like of Google maps.
There no reason to believe the company will stop Google Microsoft Telenav or Here from offering its mapping services on its platform though.
and add Baidu as a strategic investor in China Uber Cargo is another reminder that new Uber initiatives can
since the 1950 (Wikipedia says the first reference to it was in 1838) but gas and other fossil fuels have eclipsed it as a preferred energy source.
and while it still conceivable that the Google-owned company could build a Sensibo-style device,
while Alibaba Baidu and electronics seller Suning Commerce Group also got government licenses to offer mutual funds loans and insurance.
All bookings are made through the site, with the startup handling the required insurance and offering 24/7 road assistance cover in the event of a breakdown. ur insurance setup allows car owners to list their cars in less than a minute
provide their information on our website and rent a car as soon as the car owner approves the request,
The Telegraph newspaper this week suggested new powers to be outlined in the Bill will require companies like Google
the Communications Data Bill widely criticized as a nooperscharter on the grounds that it would have required ISPS to retain detailed data on web usage failed to pass through Parliament owing to the lack of support from the Conservative Lib dem coalition partners.
and we agreed to doone was about requiring ISPS to keep track of web logs, effectively.
So a list of every website you go to, and things like that. And the third thing was to have a power to require ISPS to keep track of third party information so
what you do on any other site, says Huppert. hose were the three things they said they wanted.
Whereas I think the concept of keeping track of every website everybody ever goes to,
of which will ripple out to affect both U k. web users and their online behavior, and global companies doing business in the U k. The U k. is referred often to as the most surveilled country in the world typically a reference to the pervasive use of CCTV.
The new Hub is available at Amazon com and Smarthome. com right now for $149. 99
#Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team up To Launch Webassembly, A New Binary Format For The Web Google, Microsoft,
Mozilla and the engineers on the Webkit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch Webassembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, Javascript is its programming language. Over the years,
Webassembly can be decoded significantly faster The idea is that Webassembly will provide developers with a single compilation target for the web that will,
eventually, become a web standard that implemented in all browsers. By default Javascript files are simple text files that are downloaded from the server
Mozilla asm. js has aimed long to bring near-native speeds to the web. Google Native Client project for running native code in the browser had similar aims
but got relatively little traction. It looks like Webassemly may be able to bring the best of these projects to the browser now.
but to allow many more languages to be compiled for the Web. Indeed, chances are that both Javascript
#Google New Health Wearable Delivers Constant Patient Monitoring Often when we think of the wearable tech category,
Google has unveiled a new niche device that designed to do serious work in a specific setting,
is the product of Google X, the experimental group within the search giant that is responsible for some of its more noteworthy oon shotprojects,
Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
like on their site or in retail stores. Other attempts at name-your-price ecommerce typically don aggregate demand,
while being the CMO of paper invitations site Storkie. In 2014 after seeing no true evolution from in the janky Groupon model
Gudai began to work full-time on bootstrapping Compelation, and recruited dev shop Cybergroup Nicholas Babb as CTO.
you just go to Opternative website and answer some eligibility questions regarding when you were last tested
While Opternative reviews the results before issuing a prescription through its HIPAA-compliant site, it takes more faith that the test won be botched by some bad answers.
so if a glasses site potential customers haven been to an eye doctor lately, they can get the right specs.
#Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street view Cars To Map Air pollution If a city knows what intersections are full of smog,
Google earth Outreach program that equips nonprofits and public-benefit organizations with data wants to give the world these insights.
So today, Google revealed that it been working with SF startup Aclima for the last year
Literally piggybacking on Google could let Aclima produce the data necessary to make urban areas easier on the lungs.
Google has agreed now to purchase more of Aclima outdoor sensors for a bigger rollout to map air quality.
The first project it announced was using indoor sensors to help Google measure air quality in its offices to optimize productivity.
by tracking conference rooms throughout the day, Google could determine if CO2 levels climbed high enough to degrade brain function.
With productivity of its huge elite workforce translating into billions in earned or lost revenue for Google,
Google earth Outreach will help organizations use the data to visualize air-quality problems in cities,
The Google partnership will allow it to rapidly scale the deployment of its sensors. This way, Aclima can pursue its mission to make a business out of improving human health through environmental protection.
There plenty more Google could potentially do with the data, though. It could allow Google maps to route cars
or pedestrians away from high-pollution areas to avoid exacerbating condensed pollution or breathing it in.
Ie asked Google for a comment on these possibilities and am waiting to hear back.
and the online ordering function on Subway website. e do anticipate this hockey stick will continue to happen as we put more resources to it,
#Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri lanka With Internet Google is working on many things,
Today, Sri lanka announced that it the first country to ever get universal Internet access from Google Project Loon.
Thanks to a partnership with Google, the country promises ffordable high-speed Internetfor all of its residents.
Google Loon was announced in 2013, with only incremental and anecdotal information hitting the presses up until now.
#Google s Brain-Inspired Software Describes What It Sees in Complex Images Experimental Google software that can describe a complex scene could lead to better image search
Researchers at Google have created software that can use complete sentences to accurately describe scenes shown in photos significant advance in the field of computer vision.
a research scientist at Google. sure there are going to be some potential applications coming out of this.
The new software is the latest product of Google research into using large collections of simulated neurons to process data (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes. Instead, its networks earnedby consuming data.
he and others at Google have begun already to think about how it could be used to enhance image search
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
Google software posted scores in the 60s on a 100-point scale. Humans doing the test typically score in 70s,
That result suggests Google is far ahead of other researchers working to create scene-describing software.
However, Vinyals notes that researchers at Google and elsewhere are still in the early stages of understanding how to create
When Google asked humans to rate its software descriptions of images on a scale of 1 to 4
Google used COCO in its new research, but it is still relatively small. hope other parties will chip in
Then the same algorithms can find similar audiences on other websites and present the ads to them.
#Google's Secretive Deepmind Startup Unveils a Neural Turing Machine""One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.
Today Google s secretive Deepmind startup which it bought for $400 million earlier this year unveils a prototype computer that attempts to mimic some of the properties of the human brain s short-term working memory.
Google s Deepmind has stated that its goal is solving intelligence. If this solution is anything like human intelligence a good test would be to see
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
Google s digital payment app Google Wallet offers consumers a number of payment-related features including a quick way to pay at stores by tapping a phone that contains a near-field
Although adoption of Google Wallet has been slow NFC technology is gaining in popularity and that is likely to accelerate with the introduction of a similar system from Apple called Apple Pay (see With Apple Pay Forget Cash Just Pull out Your Phone).
Bedier a former Paypal executive who came to Google in 2011 saw an opportunity to switch his focus from the gadgets we can use to make payments to the ones used to handle the transactions:
It accepts payments via NFC (used by services such as Google Wallet and Apple s new Apple Pay) and QR code.
#How Magic Leap s Augmented reality Works A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon valley investors led by Google to develop hardware
Indeed, people are stoning buses transporting Google employees to work from their homes in San francisco. The anger in Northern California
Why use a search engine that is almost as good as Google? Such economic logic now rules a growing share of the marketplace;
and building a business becomes less capital-intensiveou don need a printing plant to produce an online news site,
and such high-profile technologies as Google driverless car are happening more slowly than some people may think.
Whereas brain-machine interfaces would require invasive surgery for brain implants he wants to connect electronic devices to the peripheral nerves at the site of the injury allowing people to control bionic limbs with their existing nerves
Using a low-budget Web service called Promethease she paid $5 to upload her raw 23andme data.
they are loading their DNA data into several little-known websites like Promethease that have become, by default, the largest purveyors of consumer genetic health services in the United Statesnd the next possible targets for nervous
where they also uploaded links to the Promethease website, calling it a orkaround, a way to get xhaustive medical infoin reports that are imilar,
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
whether Promethease and sites like it could, or should, be the next target of regulators. Lennon believes his service is outside the FDA reach,
and you have to shut down Webmd and Wikipedia, too. Reached by MIT Technology Review, the FDA said it has authority to regulate software that interprets genomes,
MIT Technology Review tested several interpretation-only sites using DNA data of anonymous donors posted publicly by the Personal Genome Project,
All the sites quickly reported gene variants contained in the files although the number of variants reported varied, from as few as 35 to as many as 17,667 for Promethease.
Two of the sites appeared designed to steer users toward alternative medicine. Genetic Genie, a free service that carries ads for vitamins,
That site, however, directed users to get an xplanationof the results by contacting chiropractors, dieticians,
they launched SNPEDIA as a site that would let themnd anyone elseeep tabs on what science was learning about each gene variant.
Lennon says the site was modeled on Wikipedia. hat was the promise of the genome, that it should be for everybody,
Its CEO, Anne Wojcicki, who is married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, landed on magazine covers,
and a board member predicted that her startup would ecome the Google of personalized healthcare. It didn happen that way.
traffic to interpretation-only sites jumped. Interpretome maintained by Konrad Karczewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Lennon says the site averages between 50 and 500 reports per day, including a free version and a faster-running paid product.
If you happened to pore over the details added to Apple website yesterday about its new ipads,
and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal. Nothing happens.
Over the past decade, tech companies including Google, ebay Paypal, and upstart Square, along with mobile carriers,
Though Google Wallet and others have used tokens, Apple Pay will deploy them more widely. Notwithstanding Apple own recent icloud breach that exposed nude celebrity photos
Paypal, soon to split off from ebay, and Google continue to push their wallet apps as well.
Individual retailers which have persuaded customers to use their own apps have no intention of replacing them with Apple Pay.
#Inspired by Wikipedia, Social scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys Gathering data about human preferences
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
Just as Wikipedia evolves over time based on contributions from participants we envision an evolving survey driven by contributions from respondents they say.
Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale. The question that Salganik and Levy ask is
and Levy created a free website called www. allourideas. org on which anybody can create a pairwise wiki survey
Since 2010 this website has hosted some 5000 pairwise wiki surveys that have included 200000 items
For example on Wikipedia most of the information is intuited by a tiny proportion of editors.
If Wikipedia were to allow 10 and only 10 edits per editor akin to a survey that requires respondents to complete one and only one form it would exclude about 95%of the edits contributed say Salganik and Levy.
and one of several manifestos posted on the site says that those behind Ello dislike ads more than almost anyone else out there.
whether or not you want to let it gather information about your own Ello activity to improve the site.
#Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum computer Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer a type of machine that can exploit quantum physics to solve problems that would take a conventional computer millions of years.
Since 2009 Google has been working with controversial startup D-Wave Systems which claims to make the first commercial quantum computer.
And last year Google purchased one of D-Wave s machines. But independent tests published earlier this year found no evidence that D-Wave s computer uses quantum physics to solve problems more efficiently than a conventional machine.
Now John Martinis a professor at University of California Santa barbara has joined Google to establish a new quantum hardware lab near the university.
Martinis has taken a joint position with Google and UCSB that will allow him to continue his own research at the university.
Martinis s work on D-Wave s machine led him into talks with Google and to his new position.
However Google has given not up on D-Wave. In an online statement the leader of Google s quantum research said that the two companies will continue to work together
and that Google S d-Wave computer will be upgraded with a new 1000 qubit processor when it becomes available e
#Germany and Canada Are Building Water Splitters to Store Energy Germany which has come to rely heavily on wind
Google Waze an app allowing drivers to share local real-time traffic and road information; and Uber a mobile app that connects people seeking taxicabs or ridesharing services.
A business looking to purchase say a particular machine part can now turn to the ultimate consumer marketplace##ebay.
Now technology can easily extend a search via a consumer network like ebay. That dramatically increases the number of choices available
Anyone paying attention knows that his or her Web searches, Facebook feeds, and other online activity isn always safee it from the prying eyes of the NSA
Some startups hope to exploit this by buying access to your Web browsing and banking data (see ell Your Personal data for $8 a Month.
what websites they are visiting, what queries they are feeding into Google, and how often they check Twitter.
The program participants are asked also to answer questions about their behavior. Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix.
If it turns out that consumer review sites are a prominent part of the process, for instance,
partnering with the sites, and buying ads there. Ultimately, Luth found that by the time a customer actually visits a car manufacturer website,
theye most likely ready to buy a car. hat a big deal, says the company senior executive for marketing,
and Web browsing behavior to be tracked and sold to marketers. This kind of tracking will only get more sophisticated.
Yet while efforts like Google Project Tango are adding depth cameras into mobile gadgets, new research from Microsoft shows that with some simple modifications
But the group needed to train the machines (in this case a Samsung galaxy Nexus smartphone and a Microsoft Lifecam Web camera) on that relationship,
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