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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter.

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Stadia’s loss is Clubhouse’s gain: the social audio company has poached a longtime Google engineer

The Verge

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app.

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Google disables Maps traffic data in Ukraine to protect citizens

The Verge

Google has temporarily disabled live traffic features offered by Google Maps in Ukraine to protect users’ safety as the country is invaded by neighboring Russia. Google said the decision to disable these features was made to protect local users’ safety after consultation with Ukrainian authorities, report Reuters and Vice.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

Having an open-source IVI operating system would create a reusable platform consisting of core services, middleware and open application layer interfaces that eliminate the redundant efforts to create separate proprietary systems. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process

GeekWire

Paco Galanes , leader of Google’s Seattle-area offices, said the company jumped at the opportunity to support the City of Seattle. Exygy , a San Francisco-based social impact tech company, serves as steward of the CiviForm shared open-source software project and is supported through a grant from Google.org.

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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

GeekWire

… It’s almost the love child of a search engine, like Google, which you can talk to about anything, with the somewhat limited but very real intelligence of AI systems.” ” The need for strong open-source models: “The consolidation of power in AI is a huge risk. I think we need education.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. Patents, product specifications, academic publications, market research, news, not to mention social media feeds, all have text as a primary component and the volume of text is constantly growing. Google Cloud Translation.

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