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Katie Adams – Friday, January 8th, 2021 Print  | Email Google and Amazon are reportedly furthering their entrance into the health products market by working on projects using radar technology to help monitor users’ sleep. Google is working on a new version of its Nest Hub that will feature sleep monitoring, sources familiar with the project told 9to5Google Jan. 7. They said the sleep tracking feature will be powered by the tech giant’s Soli radar technology, which… 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

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

Deshaun Watson hosted friends and Houston Texans teammates for the grand opening of his new cheesesteak franchise last week. Wide receiver Brandin Cooks, running back Duke Johnson, defensive end Charles Omenihu and offensive linemen Laremy Tunsil, Tytus Howard, Roderick Johnson attended the event. Now their wallets are a little lighter. ESPN’s Sarah Barshop reported on Tuesday that the Texans have fined Watson and his teammates for attending the party. One player was fined $5,000, according… Source link

Enlarge / Signage in front of a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. More than three dozen state attorneys general last week filed an antitrust suit against Google, accusing the tech behemoth of a slew of anticompetitive behaviors. Among those behaviors, a new report finds, is an explicit agreement from Google to work with Facebook not only to divide the online advertising marketplace, but… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Says These 3 Stocks Could Surge Over 30% From Current Levels After a true annus horribilus, we’re all ready for better times. The US equity strategy team at Goldman Sachs, led by David Kostin, sees those better time ahead, and in the near-term. The team is predicting a 25% gain for the S&P 500 within the next 24 months – or to put it in absolute numbers, they believe the index will hit 4,600 by December 2022. Kostin lays out four clear reasons for believing that… Source link

Bloomberg AstraZeneca to Buy Alexion for $39 Billion in Rare-Disease Push (Bloomberg) — AstraZeneca Plc, one of the drugmakers leading the fight against Covid-19, highlighted where its growth will come from after the pandemic with a $39 billion deal for rare-disease specialist Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.The proposed cash-and-stock acquisition will add treatments for uncommon blood and immunological disorders to the portfolio of Cambridge, U.K.-based AstraZeneca, which had spent years paring… Source link

The Conversation Brazil’s president rejects COVID-19 vaccine, undermining a century of progress toward universal inoculation The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several COVID-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is not. “I’m not going to take it. It’s my right,” he said in a Nov. 26 social media broadcast. Bolsonaro, who came down with COVID-19 in July, has also criticized face masks. He and his more faithful supporters oppose any suggestion of mandatory… Source link

(Courtesy of Getty) getty Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days except for the fact that “Big Tech” has gotten too big.  Now comes word from the Wall Street Journal that the sector’s day of reckoning may be coming. According to the Journal, as many as four cases against Facebook and Alphabet’s Google GOOG alleging that their behavior harmed consumers could be filed in the coming weeks by federal and state regulators…. Source link

The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general are gearing up to hit Google and Facebook with new antitrust lawsuits in the coming weeks, per a Monday report from The Wall Street Journal. The probes will focus on whether the companies have had unfair advantages in their domination of the search and ad market and social media. The DOJ and state attorneys generals have been probing aspects of Google’s business, including its search, online advertising, and… Source link