“These laws vary by country and region, and require the removal of content on a very wide range of issues – from hate speech to adult content and obscenity, to medical misinformation, to privacy and intellectual property violations,” Google vice president of trust and safety David Graff wrote. “While content removal and local representative laws are often associated with repressive regimes, they are increasingly not limited to such nations.” Leading the way on the number of requests was Russia, India, South Korea, and Turkey, with Pakistan, Brazil, the US, Australia, Vietnam, and Indonesia closing out the top ten....

Visual Inspection AI is designed for various industries and uses cases, such as automotive, semiconductor production, and electronics manufacturing. Manufacturers have for years used AutoML Google’s general-purpose AI product for quality control, but Visual Inspection AI is more accurate and efficient. Based on pilots run by several Google Cloud customers, Visual Inspection AI can build accurate models with up to 300 times fewer human-labelled images than general-purpose ML platforms. It also improved accuracy in production trials by up to 10X compared with general-purpose ML approaches....

Known as LaMDA, an acronym for “language models for dialogue applications,” the program, which can produce human-sounding text, might have attracted very little public attention. Also: The best AI chatbots: ChatGPT and other fun alternatives to try However, shortly after LaMDA’s publication, former Google engineer Blake Lemoine caused controversy by releasing a document in which he urged Google to consider that LaMDA might be “sentient.” Google denied the likelihood of sentience, and Lemoine was put on paid administrative leave, and then let go from the company....

The days of relying on Qualcomm are over and Google now has more control of its mobile hardware platform. Google has attached the Tensor name to its machine learning projects for quite a while. In 2015, it open sourced its TensorFlow ML project, and a couple of years later used the name Tensor Processing Unit for the hardware it created to run AI workloads. Now that Google is doing its own phone hardware, the Tensor name has been applied to its new system-on-chip....

In a blog post, Jen Fitzpatrick, senior vice president of Google Core Systems & Experiences, said the changes would be rolling out in the coming weeks. Following the overturning of the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which enshrined the right to legal abortion in the United States, there are fears that data collected through search histories, medical tracking apps, and GPS location data, among other technologies, could be used in prosecutions....

The two have been working on the project for a year, and Google said the freely available privacy infrastructure will help millions in “the global developer community – researchers, governments, nonprofits, businesses and more – build and launch new applications for differential privacy, which can provide useful insights and services without revealing any information about individuals.” Google began its differential privacy efforts in 2019 and got significant interest in it, prompting them to launch the new open source differential privacy product in Python....

Thankfully, the tech giant has issued an update to patch these flaws, which will be rolled out over the next few days. Read on to learn more about the exploits, as well as the steps you should take to protect yourself. List of High-Level Exploits Google has provided details about the discovered vulnerabilities in its blog post. Understandably, it has decided to restrict access to bug details and links until a significant number of users have updated their browser....

Broadband quality was considered by 20% of estate agents as the single most important factor to homebuyers, just behind the size of a property, which 23% of agents said was the key factor. Indeed, estate agents thought broadband was more important than the number of bedrooms, the age of a property, and access to transport. The relative importance of fast broadband may have gone up since the pandemic began almost two years ago, with people working, learning, meeting and viewing entertainment at home on the same network, often at the same time....

This could radically change the smartphone market and dramatically affect sales of new iPhones and Android handsets. While the European Commission (EC) proposes that manufacturers offer software updates and spare parts for smartphones for five years (and spare parts for tablets for an extra year), the German federal government wants to take this further, according to Heise Online. Must read: Buying a new Apple gadget? Here’s how to find the best deals (September 2021) Germany wants the EC to take support up to seven years for both updates and spare parts, both smartphones and tablets....

Salt Labs would not say which company was affected as a way to protect users, but it explained that the vulnerabilities have been fixed since they were discovered. The platform offers financial services in the form of API-based mobile applications and SaaS to small- and medium-sized businesses and commercial brands, according to Salt Labs. Michael Isbitski, technical evangelist at Salt Security, told ZDNet that GraphQL API adoption is slower than REST but growing rapidly because of the potential benefits to front-end design and performance....

This revelation comes just a day after the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a warning about potential phishing attacks in the aftermath of the Queen’s passing. The attackers impersonate Microsoft and invite victims to write a tribute to the deceased monarch on an “interactive AI memory board.” Little do victims know that in their attempts to honor the memory of the Queen, they are handing over access to their Microsoft accounts....

The hackers didn’t gain access to Social Security numbers, or credit card or debit card numbers, Samsung said. The affected information included names, contact and demographic information, date of birth, and product registration information. Samsung also noted that consumer devices were not affected in this incident, and customers can continue to use Samsung products and services as usual. Samsung did not immediately respond to questions regarding how many customers were affected....

Finding a hosting platform for your online courses is often a balance between user-friendliness and subscription affordability, so finding the right one can be challenging. But what if you could eliminate the recurring fees? That’s what OnlineCourseHost aims to achieve. This platform offers lifetime online course hosting for a one-time payment of just $100. OnlineCourseHost keeps its prices low because it doesn’t rely on marketplace mediators who take a cut of your profits....

To get a better feel for each individual provider, I set up the most basic account possible and performed a series of tests. In this article, we’re going to dive into HostGator’s offerings. Stay tuned for in-depth looks at other providers in future articles. HostGator at a glance Shared hosting starting at $2.75 per month.Cloud hosting starting at $4.95 per month.WordPress hosting starting at $5.95 per month.Reseller hosting starting at $19....

Also: Bard vs. ChatGPT: Can Bard help you code? ChatGPT’s subscription plan is called ChatGPT Plus, and it costs $20/month. The paid subscription model guarantees users general access even during peak times when the free version is at capacity, and faster response times. Plus plan subscribers also get priority access to new features and improvements, including OpenAI’s latest and greatest updates such as GPT-4, available to Plus subscribers now, and ChatGPT plugins, which will prioritize Plus users upon roll out....

Intermedia takes a partner-first approach One of Intermedia’s key differentiators is its partner enablement programs. Currently, 84% of gross sales flow through partners, many of whom white-label the product. For example, If I were to sell the service, I could call it ZK Cloud Communications or something of that ilk, while the Intermedia brand would stay behind the scenes, allowing me to position my brand with customers. Partners also can co-brand if they so choose....

This has allowed the South Korean tech giant to offer camera experiences that can satisfy casual users with the best photographs possible and professional users with RAW files equivalent to those taken on DSLR cameras, said Joshua Sungdae Cho, vice president and head of visual software R&D at Samsung’s MX Business, in an interview with ZDNet. “We’ve applied NPUs to our smartphones for the first time three years ago,” said Cho....

Oh, what a tangled web I weave. How do I pull this off? It’s actually not terribly challenging. Let me show you. To make this work, you’ll need a Google account, a macOS device with iCalendar, and your login credentials for iCloud. With all of that together, let’s make some calendar magic. Also: How to compose an email from Google Docs Adding Google Calendar to iCalendar Of the two processes, this is the easiest, because the functionality is built right into macOS (I’m demonstrating with Monterey)....

But wouldn’t it be even better if one could make Google Assistant a bit more efficient? Well, Google and its bevy of Android developers thought of that very thing. Usually, when you want to do something with Google Assistant, you start by saying, “OK, Google,” or “Hey, Google.” But there’s more to it than that. If you have one of the newer Pixel phones (Pixel 6 or newer), the Google Assistant app has a not-so-obvious feature called “Quick phrases” that simplifies the interactions you have for things like alarms, timers, and incoming calls....

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