Image Tagging, Unlock Value for Your Brand

How Image Tagging Can Unlock Value for Your Brand: Video - Bloomberg: "How Image Tagging Can Unlock Value for Your Brand" (video at link)

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Search, Google, Brazil

Search battle against Google moves to Brazil - FT.com: "But US internet companies’ standing in Latin America’s biggest country has taken a battering in recent weeks amid allegations Washington’s spy agencies have been hacking into Brazilians’ emails and communications, including those of President Dilma Rousseff and large companies, such as state oil group Petrobras. . . “We will of course work with Brazilian regulators to address any questions or concerns they may have,” Google said in an emailed statement. It added: “Governments and courts around the world – including in Brazil – have already examined competition issues thoroughly and found no violation of law.” Cade said the complaints against Google were brought by Microsoft’s search engine Bing and E-Commerce Media Group Informação e Tecnologia, owner of shopping websites Buscapé and Bondfaro." (read more at link above)

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Private Tech Companies Selling DATA on You to the Feds for Huge Profits

How Private Tech Companies Are Collecting Data on You and Selling Them to the Feds for Huge Profits | Alternet: "Big Bro is watching you. Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere. No longer the wide-eyed fantasies of conspiracy theorists, these technologies are routinely installed in all of our data devices by companies that sell them to Washington for a profit. . . ." (read more at link above)

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Eric Schmidt, Google Now, in the Enterprise

Google's Schmidt: Google Now approach could go enterprise | ZDNet: "The Google Now approach, which works well with consumers, could be applied to the enterprise with some artificial intelligence help scanning corporate data sets. Schmidt said Google is experimenting with how Google Now could work within the enterprise. Schmidt said it could take the Google Now approach to calculate workflows in a corporation and look into being analytical." (read more at link above)

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Google, futuristic quantum lab

A first look inside Google's futuristic quantum lab | The Verge: "Beyond the film, Google says it's made great leaps in recent experiments with the quantum chips, determining which algorithms work better in a quantum setup and providing further evidence that the D-Wave processor uses quantum entanglement, a behavior that links particles with no apparent physical connection between them. D-Wave has always claimed that its chips involved entanglement, but it had been difficult to conclusively demonstrate before now." (read more at link above)

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TorSearch, Google of the hidden Internet

TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden Internet | VentureBeat: "The newest search engine in the world is hidden in the shadows of the Internet, but it shines a light on those shadows that ordinary search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo can’t. It’s TorSearch, and it’s the new way for the million-plus users of Tor to find anything, privately." read more at link above

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State Parole Boards, Software, Release Inmates

State Parole Boards Use Software to Decide Which Inmates to Release - WSJ.com: "Wider acceptance of computerized risk assessments, along with other measures to reduce state corrections budgets, has coincided with the first declines in the national incarceration rate in more than a decade." read more at link above

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Nate Silver, Big Questions, Data

Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career - Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review: " . . .  it really is something that requires a lot of different parts of your brain. I mean the thing that’s toughest to teach is the intuition for what are big questions to ask. That intellectual curiosity. That bullshit detector for lack of a better term, where you see a data set and you have at least a first approach on how much signal there is there. That can help to make you a lot more efficient. That stuff is kind of hard to teach through book learning. So it’s by experience. I would be an advocate if you’re going to have an education, then have it be a pretty diverse education so you’re flexing lots of different muscles. You can learn the technical skills later on, and you’ll be more motivated to learn more of the technical skills when you have some problem you’re trying to solve or some financial incentive to do so. So, I think not specializing too early is important. . . ."

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Google, Remarkable Facts (video)

Google Turns 15: The Remarkable Facts: Video - Bloomberg: "Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) –- Today is Google's 15th birthday. Bloomberg takes a look at some of the most mind-blowing facts and figures from Google's first decade and half. (Source: Bloomberg)"

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Facebook, AI, Google, Deep Learning

Facebook Chases Google’s Deep Learning with New Research Group | MIT Technology Review: "...A new research group within the company is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features and perhaps boost the company’s ad targeting..."

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SEO, Focus, Users

The Day that SEO Died (Sort of) - 'Net Features - Website Magazine: "There is an even better way to handle this issue. Stop thinking about ranking entirely or which keywords cause which action on which page. Instead, focus on the user, their experience and the impact those customers make on your enterprise. That’s likely not going to be the answer you want to hear, but that’s what you’ll get from anyone talking about this topic today."

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Big Data, Big Medicine, Future

Why Medicine Will Be More Like Walmart | MIT Technology Review: " . . . When the medical Memex finally arrives, look for health care to follow the retail track. The solo practitioner is likely to be the first to go. He or she will have to decide whether to try to become an IT manager as well as a doctor, or join a larger group of doctors. For most, the choice will be easy. The chance that a doctor over 65 works alone or in a two-person practice is about 40 percent. For young doctors, it’s less than 5 percent. Small hospitals will suffer the same fate. Already, small hospitals that have seen the price tag of medical records systems—$20 million or more to purchase, then millions to maintain—are seeking shelter in the arms of their big neighbors. I suspect most cities will go from 10 to 15 independent institutions a decade ago to three to five large health-care systems a decade hence. These systems will do everything: checkups, nursing the elderly, treating heart failure, and dispensing allergy pills. . . ." (read more at link above)

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How Google Is Changing Search (video)

Getting to Know You: How Google Is Changing Search: Video - Bloomberg: Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Google is undergoing a major long-term overhaul of its search engine, making it more personal and more conversational. Bloomberg West's Jon Erlichman went inside Google and talked with Search Czar Ben Gomes about how his team is making this all happen. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google BigQuery, Data Streaming

Google BigQuery Adds Data Streaming - Cloud Computing - Software as a: "Google's BigQuery, a Web service for analyzing large amounts of data, is about to become more efficient in order to gain insight into data subsets and to refresh its interface. On Wednesday, Google plans to introduce several new features: support for real-time data streaming in BigQuery, the ability to query portions of a table, the query functions SUM and COUNT, and interface improvements designed to enhance productivity.BigQuery was launched last year as a tool for interactive data analysis. It's not a database, like Google Cloud SQL. Rather it brings MySQL-style querying to a NoSQL datastore."

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