Google releases AI training data set with 5 million images and 200,000 landmarks
Posted in Online, Software on 3rd May, 2019
by Alex Muller
In a significant step toward its goal of more sophisticated landmark-detecting computer vision models, Google open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2, a new, larger landmark recognition corpus containing twice as many photos and seven times as many landmarks.
Google completes subsea cable to Chile
Posted in Business, Featured, Hardware, Online on 25th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Alphabet Inc’s Google has completed a subsea cable linking the coast of California to Chile, a key step in its plans to bolster its global cloud computing infrastructure.
Google’s Cloud Services Platform is now Anthos, and it works with AWS and Azure
Posted in Business, Online, Software on 10th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
Anthos is the new name for the Cloud Services Platform, which Google introduced in beta for hybrid cloud management last year. Google also introduced Anthos Migrate in beta for portability across clouds without the need to modify apps or virtual machines.
Google Brain’s AI predicts code from your previous edits
Posted in Software on 9th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
AI that can predict future source code changes from past edits might be an invaluable tool for programmers, but it’s a challenge that has yet to be fully conquered by researchers.
Google dissolves AI ethics council after just 10 days
Posted in Business, Software on 8th Apr, 2019
by Alex Muller
“It’s become clear that in the current environment, ATEAC can’t function as we wanted. So we’re ending the council and going back to the drawing board,” a Google representative said in an emailed statement.