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LeopoldS

Google Says the FBI Is Secretly Spying on Some of Its Customers | Threat Level | Wired.com - 3 views

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    not a surprise though still bad to read ....
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    On a side note, it's hilarious to read an article on something repeatedly referred to as being secret...
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    quite self-explanatory described though: "The terrorists apparently would win if Google told you the exact number of times the Federal Bureau of Investigation invoked a secret process to extract data about the media giant's customers. That's why it is unlawful for any record-keeper to disclose it has received a so-called National Security Letter. But under a deal brokered with the President Barack Obama administration, Google on Tuesday published a "range" of times it received National Security Letters demanding it divulge account information to the authorities without warrants. It was the first time a company has ever released data chronicling the volume of National Security Letter requests. National Security Letters allow the government to get detailed information on Americans' finances and communications without oversight from a judge. The FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of NSLs and has even been reprimanded for abusing them. The NSLs are written demands from the FBI that compel internet service providers, credit companies, financial institutions and businesses like Google to hand over confidential records about their customers, such as subscriber information, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, websites visited and more as long as the FBI says the information is "relevant" to an investigation." and ""You'll notice that we're reporting numerical ranges rather than exact numbers. This is to address concerns raised by the FBI, Justice Department and other agencies that releasing exact numbers might reveal information about investigations. We plan to update these figures annually," Richard Salgado, a Google legal director, wrote in a blog post. Salgado was not available for comment. What makes the government's position questionable is that it is required by Congress to disclose the number of times the bureau issues National Security Letters. In 2011, the year with the latest available figures, the FBI issued 16,511 National Sec
Luís F. Simões

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret initiative called Project Glass. The glasses are the company’s first venture into wearable computing.
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    this will be big! check the video. according to one of the related posts, they'll be on sale already by the end of 2012! Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this
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    > Surprising that it's Google and not Apple to come up with this It's sort of hard to think when your brain's gone.
Francesco Biscani

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots - 0 views

  • I worked at Google from 2005-2010, and saw the company go through many changes, and a huge increase in staff.  Most importantly, I saw the company go from a place where engineers were seen as violent disruptors and innovators, to a place where doing things “The Google Way” was king, and where thinking outside the box was discouraged and even chastised.
  • Let engineers do what they do best, and forget the rest.
  • This is probably the most important single point.  Engineers at Google spend way too much time fussing about with everything other than engineering and product design.
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  • Meetings.  Seriously, people are drenched in “status update” and “team” meetings.
  • Weekly Snippets, perf, etc. I was continually amazed by the amount of “extra cruft work” that goes on.  I know it sounds important, but engineers should be coding & designing.
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    An opinion piece by an ex-Googler, talking, among other things, about how corporate culture is creeping into Google. I've highlighted some snippets which I've found eerily familiar :)
Luís F. Simões

At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. In interviews, a dozen people discussed the list; some work at the lab or elsewhere at Google, and some have been briefed on the project. But none would speak for attribution because Google is so secretive about the effort that many employees do not even know the lab exists.
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    hmmm, I was wondering how many ESA employees do know that ACT does exist....
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    And my son studying at Stanford (he just sent me the same link !) follows the courses this semester of two of the teachers mentioned in the article, Thrun - very good and Ng - excellent
Luís F. Simões

The Space Age, as recorded on human written history - 4 views

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    Google Books measurements of word frequencies on 15 million books (12% of all the books ever published). More about it in:  - Google Opens Books to New Cultural Studies - John Bohannon, Science 2010-12-17 - Slashdot: Google Books Makes a Word Cloud of Human History - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info
Nicholas Lan

Google and Facebook Investigating Launching Satellites - 1 views

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    unfortunately the original article is subscription only "Among the evidence the article cites for this conclusion is Google's recent hiring of Brian Holtz and Dave Bettinger. Both came from companies (O3b and VT iDirect respectively) that specialize in communication satellites. Google has also invested in O3b and a current Google employee sits on company's board. A Boeing representative told The Information that Facebook and Google are "beginning to show a broader interest in satellite technology." While both companies are looking to space to broaden their reach, the ad-supported Google has the potential resources (cash) and gumption to actually follow through in the immediate future."
pacome delva

Can Google Predict the Stock Market? - ScienceNOW - 2 views

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    in related news: Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market "An analysis of almost 10 million tweets from 2008 shows how they can be used to predict stock market movements up to 6 days in advance" http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25900/ http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003
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    not overly impressive: "The Google data could not predict the weekly fluctuations in stock prices. However, the team found a strong correlation between Internet searches for a company's name and its trade volume, the total number of times the stock changed hands over a given week."
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    Likewise, I can predict the statistical properties of white noise :-)
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    the problem is that usually the google search queries and the twitter updates happen after a crisis for example. I dont really think that people all over the world suddenly realised that Lehman would collapse and started googling it like crazy before it collapsed. More likely they did it afterwards.
Francesco Biscani

Official Google Blog: Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards - 0 views

  • Today, we're announcing the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards — funding research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community. These awards, totaling $5.7 million, cover four areas: machine learning, the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring, energy efficiency in computing, and privacy.
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    Might be of some interest to Christos?
nikolas smyrlakis

Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News - 0 views

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    It's an article from April, now that we got Anreij's Google thing though is more actual - Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers. For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Business Tech.
Juxi Leitner

Google's Go: A New Programming Language That's Python Meets C++ - 6 views

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    Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company ...
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    Ugh... no operator overloading, no efficient generic programming and no lambda expressions... Only time will tell, but I don't understand who the intended audience is: I think that Python guys won't care about the (supposedly) increased performance (and you can interface C/C++ with Python easily) and that C++ programmers (I mean, the hardcore serious C++ Boost-like programmers, no the Java-like whiners :P) won't have their beloved templates pried from their cold dead hands with ease.
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    yeah though I think especially operator overloading is not going to be a main problem, it is as with the JS library though quite thinkable that lots of users will switch or use it (or being put to use it...) because it is done by Google
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    Having Google backing it will certainly help, even though they are presenting it as a "system level" (i.e., hard-core) language, and in that domain it is much more difficult to bullshit your way to a position of relevance. Look at Java: Sun pushed it like hell and it is certainly widely used in many contexts (corporate, web and embedded markets mostly), yet it completely failed to win the hearts of "open-source" developers (or, more generally, of those developers who are not forced to use it by virtue of some management-driven decision).
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    "or, more generally, of those developers who are not forced to use it by virtue of some management-driven decision" completely agree with that!!
johannessimon81

Google X Acquires Makani Power And Its Airborne Wind Turbines - 1 views

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    After previously investing in the company, Google has now acquired Makani Power, a green energy startup that is currently building airborne wind turbines. The acquisition was first reported in Brad Stone's Businessweek story about Google X, and judging from Stone's story, the team will join Google X.
Ma Ru

Command line tools for the Google Data APIs - 2 views

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    I'm sure Francesco will love it... perhaps of use for ACT's Google calendar/docs?
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    is there an easy way (easy for Francesco I mean) to retrieve the citation number of papers in google scholar automatically (e.g. for act papers)?
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    It seems like google scholar is not supported yet.
LeopoldS

SpartanTeX - LaTeX and Google Docs - 1 views

shared by LeopoldS on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
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    wow - this lets you use google docs to compile latex online directly without copying the content to your own computer ... it even can use other google doc files dependent on the main file aparently ...
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    nice tool ! now we can think about implementing it for the quaterly report ;)
nikolas smyrlakis

Google Flu Trends | How does this work? - 1 views

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    Learn about how Google Flu Trends uses aggregated search query data to accurately estimate current flu activity in several countries. - Lead to a Nature paper as well
ESA ACT

nativeclient - Google Code - 0 views

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    After Chrome, Google continues to branch out into other territories. This is somewhere between Java and Flash and others. It seems to me (Kev) that this could be quite important (if it doesnt die like Lively did) for online apps. Can anyone check it out i
ESA ACT

Google Doctype - Google Code - 0 views

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    Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers.
Luís F. Simões

Zeitgeist 2012 - Google - 2 views

  • 1.2 trillion searches. 146 languages. What did the world search for in 2012?
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    this is a gold mine :D Portugal, a bankrupt country in crisis where the Most Searched How to... is "Como emagrecer" (how to lose weight?). Netherlands, where the Most Searched How to... is "Hoe overleef ik" (how do I survive?) UK where the most Trending What is... is "What is love?" and Italians... please explain how come the top Trending How to... are 1. Come fare Sesso 2. Come fare un Clistere !?!? Respect for Austria though, where the top trending What is... are: 1. Was ist ACTA 2. Was ist SOPA any other interesting finds?
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    From Ghana "What is...?": What is a Constitution What is Government [edit] Some top Science searches in the US: Hemorrhoid, Pregnancy Syndroms. Any potential for Ariadna? [edit] ... and finally, for the sake of my shield, top search from Poland in the Music category
Nicholas Lan

Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm in Iowa » Data Center Knowledge - 0 views

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    Google subsidiary Google Fiber, Inc. is seeking permission to place satellite antennas on land near its data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The antennas could be used to receive content feeds from broadcast networks that could be bundled with a high-speed fiber service.
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    an oddly similar story http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/20/apple-is-solar-friendly/ apple to build largest solar array in US
Luís F. Simões

The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors - 4 views

  • Space elevators, teleportation, hoverboards, and driverless cars: The top-secret Google X innovation lab opens up about what it does--and how it thinks.
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    Interesting insight indeed, I see quite some overlap with the ACT mantra, athough they have 250 people and an outdoor playground.. To Teller, this failure-loving lab has simply stepped into the breach. Small companies don't feel they have the resources to take moonshots. Big companies think it'll rattle shareholders. Government leaders believe there's not enough money, or that Congress will characterize a misstep or failure as a scandal. These days, when it comes to Hail Mary innovation, "Everyone thinks it's somebody's else's job," Teller says.
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