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October 26, 2015
Microsoft, Taser Enter Police Body Camera Partnership
The two companies are teaming up to create a tech back end for police body cameras.
Microsoft is making some big moves to corner the lucrative police camera cloud storage industry. Today, the company announced a partnership with their chief rival in the space, Taser, to create new cloud services for law enforcement The new cloud services are mainly designed for creating an integrated system for retrieving and viewing police body camera footage and other evidence online.
Today in Tabs: The Ballad of Tokyo Sexwale
Really low-energy tabs today. Just super low-energy.
Bacon causes cancer and you have millions of tiny spiders living in your face. Look I'm sorry to be the one to tell you these things, but the WHO just added "processed meats" to the IARC Group 1 carcinogens, a list which also include smoking, asbestos, formaldehyde, haematite mining, and the evocatively named but doubtless unpleasant "strong inorganic acid mists." #NotAllCarcinogens are equal, however. Anyway, cheese or giant squid will probably kill off most of us before smoked ham has a chance. The face-spiders are totally real though.
Nexus 6P And 5X Review: Five Years Later, Google's Phones Finally Make Sense
Why do these phones exist? Because they're a great deal.
As a purveyor of smartphones, Google never had the best timing.
Google Reveals Its New "RankBrain" Artificial Intelligence System
Google is training a new artificial intelligence product on its search engine's most difficult queries.
Google has just gone public with the details of a new artificial intelligence called RankBrain, which the search giant is using to handle difficult queries. The system is being used on what one Google research scientist calls a "very large fraction" of the search queries handled by Google. RankBrain helps Google decipher the approximately 15% of phrases that the search engine has not encountered before, Bloomberg reports.
European Antitrust Head Says Examining Google's Practices Is "High Priority"
"The Google case is about misuse of a dominant position," European commissioner Margrethe Vestager told the Wall Street Journal.
Over the past year, European regulators have investigated the business practices of leading U.S. tech firms, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, filed formal antitrust charges against Google, led by antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager. In a conversation with the Wall Street Journal, Vestager explained that the EU's focus is squarely on Google, against whom she hopes to bring a slew of additional charges.
5G Wireless Is Coming....But What Is It, Anyway?
Get ready for a story of faster speeds, a little confusion, and even some nationalism thrown in for good measure.
Just as Americans are getting used to easy and plentiful 4G mobile service, cell phone providers are gearing up for… you guessed it: 5G. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently gave the mobile industry a green light to use 5G spectrums and Verizon even announced plans to have some sort of a 5G commercial network up and running for 2017. But 5G is a lot different than just faster streaming movies and immersive video games on your phone…though it's that, too. The ramp-up to 5G is also a complicated mix of nationalism (yes, nationalism) and plans for an omnipresent world of connected devices and smart automobiles.
These Are The Best Places In The U.S. For Women-Owned Businesses
New survey reveals the metro areas across the country that are hotbeds of female entrepreneurship.
The close of Women's Small Business Month is a good time to take stock of the state of women-owned firms in the U.S.
This Mini, Portable Wind Turbine Could Charge Your Phone Or Power Your House
Gigantic wind farms aren't the only way to harness the breeze. Two brothers have created a simple device that anyone can use.
Einar Agustsson and his brother Agust Agustsson come from a long line of electricians. The family business is in making and fixing complex motors, like those at Iceland's many renewable energy plants.
When Lobbyists Write Legislation, This Data Mining Tool Traces The Paper Trail
Big data is helping to bring transparency to the darker corners of politics.
Most kids learn the grade school civics lesson about how a bill becomes a law. What those lessons usually neglect to show is how legislation today is often birthed on a lobbyist's desk.
October 23, 2015
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