Google Reveals Actively Exploited Windows Kernel Vulnerability By Lucian Armasu Google made public two new critical vulnerabilities in Flash and Windows, one of which has yet to be fixed by Microsoft.
Alphabet Eyes Wireless Networks As Google Fiber's Rollout Halts By Nathaniel Mott Alphabet's Access subsidiary announced that it's "pausing" the expansion of the fiber-optic internet service commonly known as Google Fiber to focus on developing new technologies.
Chrome 55 To Intelligently Reduce Memory Usage By As Much Half, When Needed By Lucian Armasu Google announced that Chrome 55, which should be available by the end of the year, will significantly reduce memory usage.
Google Daydream Made Of Fabric, Costs Under $100, Available In November By Kevin Carbotte Google revealed the design and price of the first Daydream HMD, and you may be surprised about both.
Google Accelerating Video Understanding Research With 'YouTube-8M' Dataset By Lucian Armasu Google released the YouTube-8M video dataset containing data from over 500,000 videos to accelerate research for video understanding.
Google Translate Boasts Near-Human Accuracy Levels With New Neural Network-Powered System By Lucian Armasu Google announced its new Google Neural Machine Translation system for Google Translate, which reduces errors by 55-85% for several language pairs, achieving almost human level performance.
Google’s DeepMind Creates Another Real-World Breakthrough In Synthetic Speech Generation By Lucian Armasu
Google To Wind Down Chrome App Support In Chrome Browser By Lucian Armasu Google announced that Chrome apps will be deprecated starting at the end of this year.
Remix OS 3.0 Comes To Google’s Pixel C With A More PC-Optimized Interface By Lucian Armasu Remix OS 3.0 is now available for Google's Pixel C, bringing a better optimized interface for a device that was always supposed to work as a notebook.
Google Slashes Data Center Cooling Costs By 40 Percent In First Real-World Application Of the DeepMind AI By Lucian Armasu Google uses its DeepMind AI to cut the cooling bill of one of its data centers by 40 percent, proving its AI can show significant improvements in real-world applications as well.
Clever VR Tricks: A 60fps VR Experience On An Old Phone With Tessellation And Vertex Displacement By Chris Schodt How the creators of "Arctic Journey" for Google Cardboard created a 60fps VR experience that will run on a four-year-old-phone.
Google's Big Chip Unveil For Machine Learning: Tensor Processing Unit With 10x Better Efficiency (Updated) By Lucian Armasu Google announced that it has been working on designing a Tensor Processing Unit for the past few years, and has already used TPUs for over a year to power its applications and the AlphaGo AI.
Google Tinkers With End-To-End Encrypton In Allo Messenger, Duo Video Chat By Lucian Armasu Google announced two new apps at Google I/O: Allo, which brings built-in AI capabilities and optional end-to-end encryption, and Duo, an end-to-end encrypted video-calling app.
Chromebooks With Google Play Store Integration Could Be First Mass-Market Alternative To Windows PCs By Lucian Armasu A discovery in the Chrome OS source code revealed that the operating system may soon benefit from full Google Play Store integration, giving Chromebook users access to over one million Android apps.
European Commission Accuses Google Of Abusing Android’s Dominant Market Position By Lucian Armasu The European Commission charged Google with abusing its dominant position in the Android market to pre-install its other applications and services.
Lee Sedol Wins Fourth Match Against AlphaGo AI (Update: AlphaGo Beats Sedol 4-1) By Lucian Armasu After Alphago defeated Lee Sedol again in the first match, making it the overall winner of the planned five matches, Sedol managed to score a surprising win against AlphaGo in the fourth match.
AlphaGo AI Defeats Sedol Again, With 'Near Perfect Game' By Lucian Armasu Google's DeepMind-based AlphaGo AI defeats 18-times Go world champion for the second time in a row.
Google's AlphaGo Beats 'Go' World Champion In Historical Moment For AI By Lucian Armasu Google's DeepMind-based AlphaGo AI managed to beat Lee Sedol, the world's premiere Go player and 18-time world champion, in what represents a historical moment for the advancement of AI.
