VW To Use Google Quantum Computer For Battery Research, AI By Lucian Armasu Volkswagen will collaborate with Google on three separate quantum computing projects to improve battery technologies, autonomous driving systems, and optimize traffic flow.
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms By Leon Chan At the Embedded Linux Conference, a Google engineer named Ronald Minnich revealed that the ME is actually running its own entire MINIX OS and that Google is working on removing it.
Google Docs Drama Reminds Us How Vulnerable We Are In The Cloud (Updated) By Leon Chan Earlier today, the official Twitter account of Google Docs began receiving tweets from users who had suddenly lost access to some of their documents.
DeepMind's 'WaveNet' Synthetic Speech System Is Now 1,000x More Efficient By Lucian Armasu DeepMind announces that its next-generation neural network-based "WaveNet" technology for speech synthesis is now 1,000x more efficient and it has already been deployed in Google's Assistant.
Google's Incremental Daydream VR Improvements: Better Optics, More Colors By Fritz Nelson Google announced some incremental updates to its Daydream View VR HMD, including some tweaks to the optics.
Google Details Plan To Distrust Symantec Certificates By Lucian Armasu Google published its detailed plan to distrust Symantec certificates after Symantec was caught allowing several organizations to issue certificates on its name without any oversight.
DeepMind, Blizzard Invite Researchers To Build AI Agents That Can Master 'StarCraft II' By Lucian Armasu
EPIC Complains To FTC About Google's Credit Card Tracking By Nathaniel Mott You know Google tracks your online activities; did you know it also collects information about what you do offline?
Google Intros Unverified App Warnings To Make Up For OAuth's Flaws By Nathaniel Mott This change, like other improvements the company has made in recent months, is likely a continued response to the mass phishing attack that affected roughly 1 million people in May.
Zscaler Finds 'Drive By' Android Malware Installed Via Malicious Ads By Nathaniel Mott Zscaler has discovered new "drive by" malware that's automatically installed on Android smartphones when they visit sites with harmful ads.
