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Submission + - With TensorFlow, Google open sources its machine learning resources (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all some of Google's core competencies, where the company leads Apple and Microsoft. If successful, Google's strategy is to maintain this lead by putting its technology out in the open to improve it based on large-scale adoption and code contributions from the community at large.

Submission + - Brainwave-reading patents spike on increase in commercial mind-reading apps

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Consumer market researcher Nielsen leads the pack, with patents describing ways to detect brain activity with EEG and translate it into what someone truly thinks about, say, a new product, advertising, or packaging. Microsoft Corp. holds patents that assess mental states, with the goal of determining the most effective way to present information.

Submission + - Patents show Google Fi was envisioned before the iPhone was released (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Contrary to reports, Google didn't become a mobile carrier with the introduction of Google Fi. Google Fi was launched to prove that a network-of-networks serves smartphone users better than a single mobile carrier's network. Patents related to Google Fi, filed in early 2007, explain Google's vision – smartphones negotiate for and connect to the fastest network available. The patent and Google Fi share a common notion that the smartphone should connect to the fastest network available, not a single carrier's network that may not provide the best performance. It breaks the exclusive relationship between a smartphone and a single carrier.

Submission + - How Sony, Intel, and Unix made Apple's Mac a PC competitor (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: In 2007, Sony’s supply chain lessons, the network effect from the shift to Intel architecture, and a better OS X for developers combined to renew the Mac’s growth. The network effects of the Microsoft Wintel ecosystem that Rappaport explained 20 years ago in the Harvard Business Review are no longer a big advantage. By turning itself into a premium PC company with a proprietary OS, Apple has taken the best of PC ecosystem, but avoided taking on the disadvantages.

Submission + - Intel confronts a big mobile challenge: Native compatibility (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Intel has solved the problem of ARM-native incompatibility. But will developers bite?

App developers now frequently bypass Android’s Dalvik VM for some parts of their apps in favor of the faster native C language. According to Intel two thirds of the top 2,000 apps in the Google Play Store use natively compiled C code, the same language in which Android, the Dalvik VM, and the Android libraries are mostly written

. The natively compiled apps run faster and more efficiently, but at the cost of compatibility. The compiled code is targeted to a particular processor core’s instruction set. In the Android universe, this instruction set is almost always the ARM instruction set. This is a compatibility problem for Intel because its Atom mobile processors use its X86 instruction set

Submission + - California opens driverless car competition with testing regulations (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Professor John Leonard tipped the audience that California just released rules for testing autonomous vehicles on California’s roads and highways. Californians will soon be seeing more autonomous vehicles than just those built by the Google X labs.

These vehicles offer great promise, such as freeing the driver’s attention for productivity or leisure, better safety and less congestion. It will be a while, though, before we see these vehicles on the road. Autonomous vehicles will move the Zip Car car-as-a-service concept forward when deployed, because a subscribers would simply summon cars using an app.

Submission + - Lessig Launches a SuperPAC to End all SuperPACs (mayone.us)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lawrence Lessig has announced plans to kickstart a SuperPAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016.

Submission + - Apple, Google, and Amazon's quest for one remote control is futile (qz.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: If the cable and satellite live television providers were to comment on the latest Amazon Fire TV or reports of the new Google Android and Apple TVs, it would likely be in the voice and character of Charlton Heston:

We will give up our remotes when they are pried from our cold dead hands.

Amazon’s Fire TV and the rumored Google Android and Apple TVs excite and then disappoint. At first glance, it looks like cable and satellite television are about to be outflanked and the eternal struggle with the TV remote and set-top box will be solved with an intuitive interface to search both live television and archival content from streamed online video companies such as Netflix.

Sadly, it isn’t so.

Submission + - Why internet television won't save us from cable TV (qz.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Netflix and Amazon don’t have enough content to replace cable TV

It’s no surprise that few people love their pay TV providers.

In May, Variety reported that the American Consumer Satisfaction Index ranked cable television providers last in all consumer categories. Pent up frustration with cable and satellite TV providers fuels a steady buzz that Amazon, Apple, Google and Netflix will disrupt TV. These new entrants promise to offer variability in pricing and greater choice fueling notions that Americans have officially cut their proverbial cords.

Submission + - Inside Google Ventures' open-source product design process (networkworld.com)

Submitted by smaxp
smaxp writes: Google Ventures is blazing a new trail for venture investors, delivering advice and services to its portfolio companies with in-house teams of experts in the fields of design, marketing, recruiting and engineering. I had a fascinating discussion with Google Ventures design partner Jake Knapp about how he and his four design partners help Google Ventures portfolio companies design better products and better businesses.

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