With the purchase of Boston Dynamics, Google has become the proud owner of a robotics company – for the 8th time. This is not Google’s first acquisition of a company in the robotics industry, nor will it be the last. What we’ve got instead is the continued efforts of the big G to collect the […]
This week in Washington a district judge by the name of Richard Leon has ruled that the NSA‘s data collection program on phone call data collection is unconstitutional. This ruling came amid a court case which had two American citizens filing suit against the National Security Administration to stop any and all data collection programs. […]
While the Android Nokia Lumia device dreamed of by hackers and lovers of crossovers alike has been a subject of rumor for some time now, today’s news appears to dismiss the final product altogether. What we’re to understand now is that the group inside Nokia’s devices division that would have released an Android device – […]
Microsoft has lost a high-profile engineer involved in Bing maps, wearables research, and augmented reality, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, jumping ship to Google where he will reportedly work on machine learning. Having been named “Distinguished Engineer” at Microsoft in 2011, Agüera y Arcas joined the company in 2006 after his startup Seadragon Software was acquired; […]
Windows Phone 8.1 will gain a Siri-style virtual personal assistant in an update expected in the first half of 2014, sources claim, with the new version also said to bring the much-anticipated notification center. Currently being internally tested though not expected to be publicly detailed until BUILD 2014 in April, The Verge reports, the update […]
Google has been doing its holiday shopping, and latest on the list is robotics specialists Boston Dynamics, known for its at-times terrifyingly life-like animal robots. The company has created ‘bots that can scale walls, jump like fleas, cross treacherous terrain, and outrun their human masters, but under Google’s roof – and with Google’s budget – […]
Over the last several weeks, I’ve been hunkered down in my house playing video games. I’ve all but turned my back on previous-generation hardware so I could double down on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and provide reviews where necessary. While the majority of my time playing new titles has been positive, not everything […]
And now for your weekend Snowden update. Edward Snowden, as you may know if you haven’t been living in Plato’s cave, is the 30-year-old former NSA employee who stole and leaked “thousands” of documents revealing some of the incredible extent to which the NSA and other international spy agencies go to spy on Americans, Chinese, […]
Google has acquired robotics engineering firm Boston Dynamics, known for its animal-like BigDog, WildCat, Cheetah, and Atlas robots, as former Android chief turned Google-robot lead Andy Rubin increases the search giant’s “moonshot” efforts into the field. The deal was confirmed late Friday, the NYTimes reports, and will see Boston Dynamics continue its existing military contracts; […]
Twitter’s decision to make an abrupt about-face on blocking policy after user outcry has highlighted little-understood shortcomings in how social services handle privacy and bullying, sending the 140-character message service back to the drawing board to refine its procedure. Twitter had thought it was improving the relatively blunt blocking process users were offered when it […]
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