The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Google has quietly removed its “Your News Update” feature from Assistant, axing the algorithmically personalized audio digest in favor of the company’s existing (and more traditional) news briefings, as spotted by 9to5Google. Google Assistant still offers its original news digest option, however, so users won’t be left in the lurch.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

After years of anticipation , T-Mobile is finally getting into the live TV business with the launch of a new internet-based streaming service called TVision, launching on November 1st. TVision will be available on a variety of platforms, including iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire, and Google TV.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft likes Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay local publishers for content included in search results or news feeds so much that the company thinks the U.S. Microsoft also touted its MSN licensing agreements with 1,200 publishers worldwide, generating $1 billion in revenue for those publishers since 2014.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you’ve ever posted anything on the internet, chances are that your data has already been scraped, collected, and used to train AI systems like the ones powering ChatGPT, Midjourney , and Sora. Generative AI is designed to succeed as a generalist, and learning to do so, OpenAI has said, requires “ internet-scale ” data to train on.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

Here is how Microsoft describes themselves: Microsoft Corporation is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. The Company operates in five segments: Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing, D&C Hardware, D&C Other, Commercial Licensing, and Commercial Other.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The first era of internet-streamed TV — the one of cheap, innovative cable alternatives — is over, and what comes next is going to look a whole lot more like the traditional cable services it promised to replace… with prices to match. Between traditional cable and internet services, there’s more TV competition than ever.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

A huge global web outage swept across the internet this morning, taking out popular sites including Amazon, Twitch, and Reddit. The Verge was also down for more than an hour, forcing us to head into Google Docs to share the outage news with readers. Vast chunks of the internet are offline, including The Verge.

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The Verge

JANUARY 1, 2021

Google ( technically, Alphabet ) isn’t too happy about those new rules, as it turns out. Amusingly, no: the Alphabet subsidiary just wishes they’d send it through the internet instead of broadcasting it locally. But the thing about license plates is, traditionally, you have to be within eyeshot to see them.

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Vox

MAY 31, 2024

Let’s make a deal — or else I’ve been thinking about the paperclip maximizer thought experiment ever since I found out on Thursday morning that Vox Media, the company to which Future Perfect and Vox belong, had signed a licensing deal with OpenAI to allow its published material to be used to train its AI models and be shared within ChatGPT.

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Kitaboo

MAY 7, 2024

How to Protect ePUB from Copying: Implement These Security Measures DRM Password Protection Editing Restrictions Google Alerts Official Copyright Notice DMCA Takedown Notice II. Licensing: DRM gives you the power to create and issue licensing keys. Google Alerts Google continuously monitors the web space.

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TM Forum

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2021, just six companies – Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple – generated nearly 57% of global network traffic, according to research by Sandvine, a network monitoring company. – have still never used the internet. As Samir Marwaha, Sandvine’s Chief Strategy Officer, notes in a blog.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google? Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google? Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? CloudScaling today called on the OpenStack community to work more closely with Amazon and Google.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 27, 2015

Iowa testing digital driver's licenses - GCN.com. The License Plate Surveillance Technology That Caught the Virginia Shooter - Newsweek. Symantec takes on the Internet of unsecured things - GCN.com. USPS Official: First Priority with Internet of Things is Cost Cutting - Nextgov. State Dept. Rebuild Healthy Homes from HUD.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Developers at Whirlpool, LG, Telenav, and other companies use Picovoice to create voice assistants with custom wake words that run on-device without internet connectivity. It’s similar to saying “Alexa,” or “Hey Google,” to activate Amazon and Google devices, but custom-designed for a specific use case.

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The Verge

AUGUST 2, 2021

Google’s new Pixel 6 phones, regular and Pro | Google. Google’s new Tensor SoC is the heart of its next phone Google is announcing the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro today, though it might be better to call it a preview or a tease. Google is actually, finally trying to make a competitive flagship phone. Image: Google.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Many more are taking a much harder look at their software licenses than they did earlier in the pandemic — even as they potentially allow more people to work from home. That typically means looking for multiple software licenses that offer the same technology and getting rid of one of them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. There is a big battle brewing between the three hyperscalers — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — and it’s not just about AI. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Zillow had modified its site in January 2021 after it began using the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feed that handles MLS listings. At the time the lawsuit was filed, REX was a licensed broker active in 19 states. Zillow said it made the change in order to comply with NAR guidelines, specifically its co-mingling policy.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2020

One suggestion is to simply use the weather app that Google supplies with its OS. If the Google app isn’t enough for you, here are six alternatives. Besides the price of each app, I’ve also listed all the various permissions requested as listed on its Google Play entry. We tried it, and it works quite nicely. AccuWeather.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Instead of enshrining Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft as the Internet's permanent overlords and then striving to make them as benign as possible, we can fix the Internet by making Big Tech less central to its future. The lesson of the internet was not that it was the cheapest, easiest way to build global network.

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Kitaboo

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The 21st century’s go-to learning method is online, with a myriad of courses offered by prestigious universities available on the internet. The Top 5 Instructional Content Management Systems For Effective Online Learning Google Classroom KITABOO Talent LMS Moodle Absorb LMS III. Table of Contents I.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Meanwhile, Getty Images, the UK-based photo and art library, says it will also sue Stable Diffusion for using its images without a license. Yes, some AI software seems to be able to pass parts of MBA and medical licensing tests , but they’re not going to replace your doctor or CFO quite yet.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 8, 2024

While platforms like ChatGPT have been developed using internet-sourced data, they have done so without explicit consent from the creators of that data. Google: Data collection lawsuit Google is facing a class-action suit accusing the tech giant of personal information misuse and copyright infringement.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2021

Artificial intelligence algorithms only function due to massive amounts of data they analyze, and much of that data comes from the open internet. They consider the Google Books case , in which Google downloaded and indexed more than 20 million books to create a literary search database, to be similar to training an algorithm.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

LG will make its webOS software available to other companies. Read more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

We use Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and also open source models from Hugging Face,” says Alain Biem, head of data science for the global financial information company. The only restriction is that companies with over 700 million active daily users will need to obtain a special license from Meta. This helps accelerate ideation.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Maybe we’re all supposed to live there. And maybe it’s got something to do with NFTs ?

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Eventually, thanks to the Internet Archive’s Open Library, I was able to read the book online, in an awkward web UI, by checking out the one available virtual copy, one hour at a time. Self-Publishing Pre-internet, every successful mail order business was also a publishing business, because—catalogs.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Global context : Similar disputes have emerged in the United States, exemplified by cases like Epic Games vs. Apple and Epic Games vs. Google, where concerns were raised about exorbitant commissions charged by app stores. A historic case involving the European Union and Microsoft highlighted similar antitrust concerns.

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CTOvision

JUNE 18, 2014

This gives gamers instant access to the full game experience on multiple platforms, even those on which the game is not normally supported, such as tablets, lightweight laptops, Macs, TVs with the OnLive Game System or the VIZIO® Co-Star, or on the LG Google TV. Android and Google TV are trademarks of Google, Inc. About OnLive.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2023

If vendor is licensing AI services, what is that agreement and how is vendor prepared to enforce standards? We also talk on the podcast about digital equity initiatives and efforts to ensure that local municipalities aren’t pre-empted from exercising authority over internet service providers to try to achieve equitable broadband access.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2011

. * APIs have provided a huge boost to the Internet economy. Google’s early move to expose APIs to many of its products provided the impetus for this to become standard practice across the net. * Creative Commons provides more finely tuned ways to license content, enabling more innovation and richer creation.

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Vox

MAY 4, 2021

Haile has said his service isn’t supposed to replace internet advertising , but says publishers who work with his company can make more money that way than via ads. Google and Facebook, the two companies that dominate digital ads, haven’t done much at all with subscription services so far.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The potential impacts are reminiscent of the dawn of the Internet, and are likely to be just as transformative for businesses. Microsoft, Google, Salesforce—all the major players are all in on AI, so it only makes sense to leverage that. Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.

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Kitaboo

MARCH 25, 2021

But their digital nature and easy accessibility over the internet make them susceptible to piracy, copying, and illegal distribution. PDF is a popular document format that supports data encryption and gives you a secure approach to transfer your data over the internet. Give limited period validity to the users.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2023

medical licensing exam more than 90% of the time. Google, which recently released it AI-powered chatbot Bard, has similarly built a tool to summarize patients’ medical conditions. Bing hallucinates fewer unrelated scientific references than the standalone chatbot, which is cut off from the internet, said Lee.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Re:invent is the biggest event of the year for AWS, where it unveils a dizzying array of new products and services and makes its case to developers and business decision-makers who might otherwise be swayed by the increasingly sophisticated cloud offerings from relative latecomers Microsoft, Google, Oracle and others.

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