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COVID-19 came as an unexpected challenge for humanity. Countries adopted different, sometimes diametrically opposed approaches to minimising the pandemic’s impact: from hard lockdowns to no restrictions at all, as in Sweden. It was only last week that China began to relax its zero-tolerance policy. Researchers of the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences have identified a few factors which tend to have the greatest impact on the spread of COVID-19-;in Russia, such factors include… Source link

Google has released a new free tool that allows open-source developers to more easily access vulnerability information relevant to their projects.   The Go-based tool — called OSV-Scanner — provides an automated capability to match a developer’s code and dependencies against lists of known vulnerabilities and deliver instant feedback if patches or updates are needed.   Software projects are usually built on top of a mountain of dependencies — instead of starting from zero, developers… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.(Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg) © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP Even Google isn’t immune to the severe downturn in the tech sector. Although more than 135,000 white-collar professionals in the tech and startup space have been downsized year to date, the giant search engine has avoided this trend. Amidst pressure from an activist hedge fund, adverse market conditions and a need to cut costs, Google launched a ranking system and… Source link

Google is adding a label to help searchers easily find businesses that self-identify as Asian-owned. Google’s addition of business attributes that highlight identity popped up first with tags for women-led businesses in 2018. Later that year, Google added labels to distinguish veteran-owned businesses on searches and Maps. In July 2020, Google introduced its label to focus searches seeking Black-owned businesses, in September 2021, Google added a Latino-owned tag, and most recently in… Source link

There are fears the government is secretly ordering Google to provide information on innocent users who typed in certain search terms. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Getty Images The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an accidentally-unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent web users in serious crimes and are more common than… Source link

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. In May during its Google I/O 2021 developer conference, Google demoed multitask unified model (MUM), a system trained on 75 languages at once that can simultaneously understand different forms of information including text, images, and videos.  Today, Google revealed that it’s using MUM to identify variations in the names of COVID-19 vaccines across multiple languages, which the company… Source link

Google announced last Tuesday that it developed a new artificial intelligence tool to help people identify skin conditions. Like any other symptom-checking tool, it’ll face questions over how accurately it can perform that task. But experts say it should also be scrutinized for how it influences people’s behavior: does it make them more likely to go to the doctor? Less likely? These types of symptom-checking tools — which usually clarify that they can’t diagnose health conditions… Source link

Consumers frequently turn to Google to search for information on skin, hair and nail issues, to the tune of 10 billion search queries each year. But users only find relevant information online related to a rash on their arm or a mole on their wrist about 13% of the time, according to Peggy Bui, M.D., product manager at Google Health, the tech giant’s health and wellness division. Google is using its artificial intelligence chops to help consumers, and potentially doctors, better… Source link

It has taken three years to develop, and has been trained on a dataset of 65,000 images of diagnosed conditions, as well as millions of images showing marks people were concerned about, and thousands of pictures of healthy skin, in all shades and tones. Source link

Google We’ve all done it. Something with your body doesn’t look or feel right, you grab your phone, Google your… Source link