It’s already happened — at least on Google Maps. Google’s online maps reflect name changes in official government sources, Google posted Saturday. So when the U.S. Geographic Names Information System formally changed the name for “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America,” Google also renamed it “Lake America” — for visitors from Read more…
If what they’ve been doing hasn’t solved the problem, tell them to do something else. — Gerald Weinberg, “The Secrets of Consulting”
Google’s AI assistant Gemini crawls your Google apps for “more personalized suggestions,” in a feature they call Personal Intelligence. Now when given permission, an Android/iOS app called Dreambeans “uses Personal Intelligence to connect information from Google apps like Gmail, Calendar, Photos, YouTube and Search History, to curate a finite collection Read more…
A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale engineered yeast to create cookies that were 3D printed out of plastic waste. The yeast breaks down the components of plastic compounds and agricultural byproducts like discarded plant stalks into proteins, fats, acids, and flavorings that we can eat. When these Read more…
America’s public education system has become “an avenue for multitrillion-dollar companies to enact their agendas,” argues a NewYork Times reporter who’s covered that tech industry influence for over 10 years. Big tech companies “advocate for new laws to require schools to teach industry-aligned subjects. They sit on committees that help Read more…
All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it. — Richard P. Feynman