Methane emissions, be it from industrial cattle farming or fossil fuel extraction, are responsible for roughly 30 percent of the Earth’s climate change issues. But despite the massive amounts of methane emissions released into the atmosphere every year, it’s often difficult to track the pollutant—apart from being invisible to the human eye and satellites’ multispectral […]
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We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › In 2018, there are generally two types of robotic or assistive devices that are worth putting in your home. The first: a smart speaker that lets you speak with Alexa, the Google Assistant, or Siri. The […]
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What does the future of internet search look like? Google envisions it as looking more like a casual conversation with a friend. While Google’s search engine has been online for over two decades, the technology that powers it has been constantly evolving. Recently, the company announced a new artificial-intelligence system called MUM, which stands for […]
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Apple and Google must tell users how much they are spying on them, according to US lawmakers. The Energy and Commerce Committee has written to the heads of both companies to demand they make clear whether iPhones and Android devices are collecting information about their users, and how that data is used. The letters suggest that […]
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Google News is checked by millions of people on a daily basis looking for quick access to a range of coverage of a given event or issue. It was founded by software developer Krishna Bharat in 2002 in response to the scramble for news that followed the attacks on the World Trade Centre on 11 September […]
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Google has been inadvertently revealing the names of rape victims that should remain secret. Searching for details of certain cases can bring up predictions that reveal details of those cases that are confidential. Victims in rape cases are supposed to remain confidential forever, even if the accused is found not guilty. A number of examples […]
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Never trust a computer for anything’ is a great piece of personal advice. Stick to analogue, where it’s safe and nothing can hurt you. Computers, they’re the scary ones – particularly when they’ve got a ghost in them and they are prophesying the coming apocalypse by spouting rambling religious doctrine. Which is what Google Translate […]
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The European Union’s data watchdog has compared Google and Facebook to “digital sweat factories” where nobody is allowed to clock out. European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli made the criticism in reference to the way internet companies depend on constantly farming people’s personal data. Mr Buttarelli said: “The digital information ecosystem farms people for their attention, ideas and […]
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Rob Enderle/IT Business Edge March 04, 2011 Nokia and Microsoft announced a strategic alliance that could define the futures of both firms. They had no choice because, right now, Apple is the company for both to beat. It isn’t Google with its Android offering, and you can confirm this by looking at the drama at Verizon and […]
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Google partnered with the XPRIZE Foundation years ago to encourage innovative companies to shoot for the moon — literally. The Google Lunar XPRIZE offered $30 million in prizes to get private remote vehicles on the moon, but there were more bumps in the road than anyone expected. It started to look grim for the remaining competitors several […]
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