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This week, when Apple Inc (AAPL) introduced its triple-camera, the iPhone marketing Chief Phil Schiller waxed on about device’s ability to create perfect photograph by interlacing it together with the eight separate exposures that captured before the main shot, called a feat of “computational photography mad science.” Phil Schiller said, while describing a feature […]
Google is denying a New York Post report that Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit is in talks with Dish Network (DISH) to create a new U.S. wireless carrier. In a statement to website 9-to-5 Google, a spokesperson said that claims of Dish talks are “simply false.” The insider ownership percentage is the key indicator, can be […]
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has bought a big office building in Sunnyvale that four decades ago was occupied by an early operation of video game pioneer Atari, a new property deal that widens Google’s holdings in Silicon Valley. The tech titan bought a building near Borregas Avenue and West Java Drive in a part of northern […]
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) has officially announced its third undersea internet cable project which will connect Africa and Europe through Portugal. The company is also building multiple “branching units” into the system, which will allow it to expand into other countries in the region such as Nigeria in the near future. The stock Earnings per share (EPS) and […]
The AFL is pleased to announce a new partnership with Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Australia for season 2019. The new partnership will see the introduction of three new AFL voting categories via Google Search, where fans can vote on the Friday Night Best on Ground and Player of the Round for the remainder of the 2019 Toyota AFL […]
A partnership between Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and the University of Chicago Medical Center aimed to improve predictive analysis in medicine. But a lawsuit filed by a patient says the alliance shared too much personal information. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in US District Court for Northern Illinois, accuses the hospital of sharing hundreds of thousands of patient records […]
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced a new direct integration between Kaggle and BigQuery, Google’s cloud data warehouse. More specifically, data scientists can build a model in a Kaggle JupyterNotebook, known as Kaggle Kernels in the community. You can then link directly to BigQuery through the tool’s API, making it much simpler to query against the data in the data warehouse using SQL, a language data scientists tend […]
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) now lets you order food online from popular delivery services including Postmates and DoorDash without having to download any apps. Just search for the restaurant or dish you want in Google Search, Maps or Assistant and look for the big “order online” button. You’ll see a list of all of your available delivery options from services including DoorDash, Postmates, Delivery.com, Slice […]
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced this morning it’s expanding its two-year-old digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, “Be Internet Awesome,” to now include media literacy specifically, the ability to identify so-called “fake news” and other false content. The company is launching six new media literacy activities for the curriculum that will help teach kids things like how […]
A high-tech smart city project proposed along Toronto’s waterfront by Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) unit Sidewalk Labs has pledged not to sell advertisers the personal data collected to serve residents and visitors, as part of a 1,500-page master plan released on Monday. The proposal in Canada’s biggest city is designed to provide affordable housing, alleviate traffic and fight climate […]