Day: June 1, 2019

Google’s Go Lead: the Language Belongs To the Community

Russ Cox (along with Rob Pike) is the tech lead for Google’s Go team and its Go project. This week he responded on the Google group golang-nuts to a blogger who’d argued that “Go is Google’s language, not ours.” First Cox points to a talk at Gophercon 2015 — and its accompanying blog post —…


Gut Bacteria May Contribute To Autism Symptoms, Mouse Study Finds

Suren Enfiajyan shared this story from Science magazine: Genes are a powerful driver of risk for autism, but some researchers suspect another factor is also at play: the set of bacteria that inhabits the gut. That idea has been controversial, but a new study offers support for this gut-brain link. It reveals that mice develop…


Simulated Newton’s Cradle Makes A Flashy Desk Toy

Newton’s Cradle was once upon a time, a popular desk toy in offices around the world. For [TecnoProfesor], however, it wasn’t quite flashy enough. Instead, they built a simulated version with flashing LEDs. As you do. Rather than relying on the basic principles of the cradle to make it work, this relies on two servo…


Google Assistant’s AI Is Actually Humans In ‘A White-Collar Sweatshop’, Complain Workers

This week the Guardian ran an expose on Google Assistant (Google’s version of Alexa or Siri) “Interpreting a spoken request isn’t magic, rather it has taken a team of underpaid, subcontracted linguists to make the technology possible.” “It’s smoke and mirrors if anything,” said a current Google employee who, as with the others quoted in…


Apple WWDC 2019 keynote: How to watch, start time, livestream – CNET

What’s next for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, the Mac — and everything else in the Apple universe? We’ll find out on Monday. …read more Source:: CNet


Russian Trolls Fueled Anti-Vaccination Debate On Twitter, Study Finds

“Russian Twitter trolls have attempted to fuel the anti-vaccination debate in the U.S.,” reports CBS News, citing a study from George Washington University. Bots are reportedly sharing opinions from both sides of the debate to stir up controversy The Daily Dot reports: The study further warns that the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation by “accounts masquerading…


Sonic the Hedgehog movie: Cast, plot, release date – CNET

Here’s our ongoing guide to the flick about the Sega video game character. …read more Source:: CNet


Why wait for Prime Day? Amazon Fire TV devices are on sale now – CNET

Check out these deals on Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Recast DVR, Fire TV Cube and Echo Input. …read more Source:: CNet


Facebook Ordered By U.S. Judge To Turn Over Data Privacy Records

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Theta360 Leak Exposes 11 Million Photos, User Data

…read more Source:: PacketStorm