Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Weekly Update - December 29, 2018: Winding Downward The Year

No large round-up this week, every bit most of the tech basis is on holiday, together with I'm working on my end-of-2018 circular upward which I'll post service on Jan 1st. There was a petty fleck of intelligence this week:
  • You tin start the novel yr amongst a 30-day action challenge inward the Google Fit app. It starts Jan 1st, but y'all tin sign upward today.  Get Google Fit for your Android phone to acquire started.
  • Google celebrated their Webmaster Product Experts. If y'all are a webmaster who enjoys sharing your expertise, banking concern check it out.  
  • The photographic telly camera on your telephone is getting smarter. Google uses reckoner vision techniques together with machine learning to ability features like "Top Shot" on the Pixel iii that saves together with analyzes frames earlier together with subsequently your shutter press to capture but the correct moment. And Google Lens lets y'all "search what y'all see" and re-create text inward images. Follow the links to acquire how it works. 
  • Speaking of "smart" icon processing, if y'all are a domestic dog person, rather than a truthful cat person, AND y'all role Snapchat, you're in all likelihood excited most the new doggie Lenses. Cat Lenses were added dorsum inward October. 
  • Flickr is article inward the New York Times that claims their "rulebook" governing policy enforcement roughly the basis has "numerous gaps, biases together with outright errors" which has "allowed extremist linguistic communication to flourish inward some countries piece censoring mainstream spoken communication inward others." While Facebook argues that their policies are non "secret" together with updates to their policies are carefully considered using input from experts exterior the company. The bigger issue, though, isn't addressed, that Facebook has such a broad attain together with the political together with social issues it is trying to address are together with therefore complex, that it may non actually hold upward possible to acquire it correct - particularly when Facebook's algorithms promote sensationalist together with provocative content.
Companies await dorsum at 2018:
That's it for the year. Stay tuned for my 2018 roundup, where I conduct maintain a await at the by yr for Google+, YouTube together with more.

Updated March 2019 to withdraw Google+ links.
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