These are exciting times for Google. What began as a simple search engine service is now among the most powerful companies in the IT and technology industries. Google is always on the lookout for the next great thing, and their latest creation will help you feel right at Home.
At the I/O developer event held in Mountain View, Calif., Mario Queiroz, Vice President of Product Management for Google announced the launch of Google Home. Designed to compete head-on with Amazon’s Echo, Google Home is a voice-activated speaker that enables users to ask questions, receive answers, stream music, and get help with everyday tasks.
Google has made several attempts to expand into the world of artificial intelligence lately, and Google Home represents the next step on that journey. No launch date or price has been set for Google Home as of yet.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Google-Plots-Home-Invasion-83525.html
Official Google Home website:
https://home.google.com/
Google is many things to many people. They’re one of the top search engines in the world, they’re the creators of the Android operating system for mobile phones, and they’re responsible for Blogger, the platform on which this site is hosted. And the list goes on.
But the Alphabet-operated juggernaut is about to expand into a new area – computer chips. On May 19, Google announced that the future of their organization will rely on a custom-designed chip that will power artificial intelligence systems.
The past few years have seen Google undergo an unprecedented evolution from a search engine service to a relative giant in the realms of technology and IT. This progress has many people wondering just what they’ll do or create next.
While Google firmly believes that AI is the future of personal computing and user experience, should the creation of these new chips have companies like Intel and NVIDIA scrambling to maintain their market share?
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http://www.wired.com/2016/05/googles-making-chips-now-time-intel-freak/
In the criminal justice system, offenders of all kinds rely on legal representation. At the bankruptcy division for U.S. law firm BakerHostetler, the latest lawyer to join their team is unlike none ever seen before. This is his story.
Meet ROSS, the latest creation from IBM. Built with the assistance of the company’s Watson cognitive system, ROSS is the world’s first artificially intelligent lawyer. Designed to understand language and develop hypotheses when posed legal questions, ROSS provides answers and subsequently draws conclusions backed up by the necessary references and citations.
While ROSS’s arrival on the legal scene certainly won’t spell the beginning of the end for human lawyers, he will certainly make their case work easier.
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http://futurism.com/artificially-intelligent-lawyer-ross-hired-first-official-law-firm/
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