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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A friendly Google user has created a map that takes you on a journey to see “the best Christmas lights in Augusta’s river region.” While we don’t know who created this map, it is available for the public to view and drive around to see the lights this holiday season! Also, check out this super colorful display from a house on South Old Belair Rd! Copyright 2020 WRDW/WAGT. All rights reserved. Source link

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Berger Montague PC filed an antitrust class action lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a proposed class of “Publishers”—ad-supported online content companies. The lawsuit, Sterling International Consulting Group v. Google, LLC, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, where Defendant Google LLC is located. Sterling International Consulting Group (“SICG”) alleges that Google engaged in a… Source link

The legal team at Google steadfastly swatted away two antitrust lawsuits like pesky flies, mere distractions as the search-engine giant chugs along and accrues record market value despite a pandemic. Then came suit No. 3. A bipartisan coalition of 38 attorneys general, spearheaded by Colorado and Nebraska, announced the lawsuit last week, and it goes much farther than its predecessors from the Department of Justice and Texas and nine other states. The most recent suit is broader and… Source link

The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear rules. An algorithm could always have perfect knowledge of the state of the game and know every possible move that both it and its opponent could make. The state of the game could be evaluated just by looking at the board. But many other games… Source link

Google is currently under fire for apparently pushing out a researcher whose work warned of bias in AI, and now a report from Reuters says others doing such work at the company have been asked to “strike a positive tone” and undergo additional reviews for research touching on “sensitive topics.” Reuters, citing researchers at the company and internal documents, reports that Google has implemented new controls in the last year, including an extra round of inspection for papers… Source link

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Many of us use Facebook and Google every day, but those two entities control more of our digital space than we realize. Both media giants are now involved in anti-competition lawsuits, claiming they’re monopolizing the market. Facebook and Google have been hit with a string of antitrust lawsuits recently, and North Dakota’s Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, R-N.D., has specifically signed onto two of them: one against Google with nine other attorneys general and… Source link

Google has added a layer of scrutiny for research papers on sensitive topics including gender, race, and political ideology. A senior manager also instructed researchers to “strike a positive tone” in a paper this summer. The news was first reported by Reuters. “Advances in technology and the growing complexity of our external environment are increasingly leading to situations where seemingly inoffensive projects raise ethical, reputational, regulatory or legal issues,” the… Source link

On Monday night, April Christina Curley, a diversity recruiter at Google, announced on Twitter that she had been fired in September. She started at Google in 2014, helping the company improve its relationships with historically Black colleges and universities. Before taking the job, Curley tweeted that the company had not “hired a single HBCU student into a tech role.” Six years later, Curley tweeted that she had “brought in over 300 Black and Brown students from HBCUs who were hired into… Source link