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Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Use of Google’s takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the company reports. When it started publicly posting takedown notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went…
Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Startup biotech company Transcriptic has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ventures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and private investors Mark Cuban and…
From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an application or a piece of technology that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Something that is a joy to use, tackles a…
Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis…
What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the personalized genomics company founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of investment cash ($50 million). According to their press release, they are using the money to…
Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief execut……
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…
lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encouraged readers to tell us whose productivity tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…
Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine. Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…
When the Nerds Go Marching In James Fallows, theatlantic.com How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama’s reelection The Obama campaign’s technologists were tense and tired. It was game day and everything was going wrong. Josh Thayer… When the Nerds Go Marching In – Alexis…
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