How the Blackberry became indispensable — and then disappeared
Back in the 1990s, long before the pandemic made remote work the new normal, a few tech geeks at a Canadian company named Research In Motion, working out of a...
How to Reclaim Your Online Privacy
Lauren Goode: From what I know about Meredith, she’s well qualified to have this conversation. She spent a lot of time at Google, which is a place that relies very...
After Amazon, an ambition to accelerate American manufacturing
After more than two decades as part of Amazon’s core leadership team, Jeff Wilke helped transform the way people buy almost everything. His next act is no less ambitious: proving...
LayerNAS: Neural architecture search in polynomial complexity
Posted by Yicheng Fan and Dana Alon, Software Engineers, Google Research Every byte and every operation matters when trying to build a faster model, especially if the model is to...
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Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a pioneer...
I was a victim of ‘pig butchering’ — I got scammed out of $450K
Step aside, Tinder Swindler — meet the latest Hinge Cringe. A 37-year-old tech executive from Philadelphia claims she fell for an online romance scam known as “pig butchering” — a...
Google I/O 2023: Google Adds Generative AI to Search
Six months ago, Google didn’t appear remotely worried about its search business. Then OpenAI’s ChatGPT was unleashed, and Microsoft’s Bing spawned a chatbot. At Google’s annual I/O conference today, the search giant...
Training machines to learn more like humans do
Imagine sitting on a park bench, watching someone stroll by. While the scene may constantly change as the person walks, the human brain can transform that dynamic visual information into...
Robust and efficient medical imaging with self-supervision
Posted by Shekoofeh Azizi, Senior Research Scientist, and Laura Culp, Senior Research Engineer, Google Research Despite recent progress in the field of medical artificial intelligence (AI), most existing models are...
