Drone Google delivery trial to start at Logan in Queensland technology news Australia
Forget Uber Eats. Unmanned drones may soon be dropping food, coffee and even medicine from local shops into your backyard. Google’s parent company Alphabet has chosen Logan in Queensland to launch its latest drone delivery service after conducting thousands of test flights in rural parts of the state and around the world. The Wing service …
Wall St analyst Laura Martin on the fate of Netflix, breaking up Google, EU regulation, and a decade of more money for Hollywood – TechCrunch
The rise of streaming video platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime has upended traditional power balances in Hollywood and is reorganizing the way we consume films and TV series as consumers. Following her talk at the recent Banff World Media Festival in Canada, I interviewed Laura Martin, the senior analyst covering entertainment and internet stocks …
Google Pixel 4 will resurrect one of Samsung’s most useless Galaxy features
Google must be getting tired of leaks for its upcoming Pixel 4. The company just up and announced two huge features its flagship will feature: the air-gesture-control Motion Sense and Face Unlock. In a tweet and blog post, Google outlined the two features – along with the new tech embedded in the phone that makes …
Chart of the day: The World’s Top Ten Billionaires, 2000 to 2019
Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2019 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia. I’ve slowed this visualization down to four seconds per year to make it easier to absorb the annual changes, and have …
Check out the latest Google Pixel 4 renders
The latest render of the Google Pixel 4 Once again, we notice that there is no fingerprint scanner to be found on the new renders. While all we can do at this point is jump to conclusions, an in-screen fingerprint scanner could be one reason for the lack of such a feature. But another possibility …
Don’t break up Facebook and Google based on these three myths
As the public and government regulators around the world discuss whether and how to manage the power of technology companies, one idea that keeps coming up is breaking up these large conglomerate corporations into smaller pieces. Public distrust for tech companies has shifted to talk of antitrust action against them. Facebook, for instance, might then …
Google Yanks Seven Stalkerware Apps Discovered by Security Researchers From the Play Store
A man walking past a building at Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters in 2015.Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Google has yanked several apps from its Play Store after cybersecurity firm Avast identified them as “all likely designed by a Russian developer to allow people to stalk employees, romantic partners, or kids,” CNET reported on Wednesday. The …
Breaking down the wonders of image recognition tech Google Lens
(Screenshot) Q: What can you tell me about Google Lens and does it work as well on an iPhone? A: Google’s image recognition technology, known as “Lens,” came to be through a myriad of acquisitions over many years, including one of my favorite early augmented reality text translation apps called Word Lens. As processing power …