As someone else described it (can't remember who), Google discovered a hose out of which money pours. Ever since they've been looking for another one.

Biotech is often seen as the next revolution after computing. Google started a life sciences research division around 2010. They bought a company that makes spoons for Parkinson's patients and another that makes clinical trial management software, and have dabbled in lots of stuff from robotic surgery, and climate change resistant crop modification, to contact lenses and health insurance.

Education does vary regionally.

It's not even really new to the US. Google was doing it a decade ago. The US army was dropping Aedes aegypti out of airplanes over Georgia, for rather different purposes, in the 50s.

Specie is money. Species is one of those English words that is both the singular and plural.

We've been controlling mosquito populations for quite a while, by various means. Malaria was endemic to much of the US. The guy who proposed to turn Florida into a vacation hotspot was insane because it was a disease ridden hellhole. Washington DC too. You can still catch malaria in many places in the US if you try hard enough.

Since mosquitos are such a scourge, controlling them has been pretty well studied. This isn't even the first release of this kind in the US. It's not even the first time Google's done it.

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They x-ray your phone already. That's far more accurate than having a high school graduate eyeball it's innards.

Could be. Apple lets you turn theirs off. But "commercially available location data" usually refers to cell company tracking data, and you can't turn off your IMEI and still use your phone. Sometimes it refers to Strava runs, and what's the point of posting your run if it's not attached to your username?

If you're going to use a standard cell phone it's going to be tracked by at least one private company. Or maybe a government organization, depending on the country you're in. That's how they work.

Is soldiers having cell phones stupid? Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has pretty carefully worked out the benefits and risks. I also wouldn't be surprised if someone just assumed it would be fine.

There's no such thing as a US Army smartphone. They use Samsung Galaxies and iPhones. Those have IMEIs, MAC addresses, IMSIs, MSISDNs, Android Identifiers, and Google Advertising IDs, just like any other phone.

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My pref's are stored as a local cookie. You can use whatever search engine you like.
*note that link has been sanitized.*

The ban on private individuals is a bad idea...

Private individuals, PI's, Skip Tracers and reporters SHOULD be able to use such software freely. Police, and the Government NEED to provide reasonable suspicion to a court and get a writ.
This kind of tool can be incredibly useful, or incredibly invasive. The real question is who(m?) do you trust as the gate keeper. I'd nominate the EU data protection people but there is no agency or entity in
the US I'd trust not to monetize the data regardless of law.

Half the posts: AI is dumb, do not want, is anybody actually asking for this?

Other half: Siri is dumb, it's Apple's worst product, it's why I use Android.

They probably were. Every single thing cranks say isn't necessarily wrong, especially with enough retrospective eye squinting. The very best cranks take a grain of truth, inflate it out of proportion and use it to sell you their expensive vitamin C pills and blueberry powder.

I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the reccomendation.