{"source":"Technology","paragraphs":["\u003cp\u003eAs that weirdo, Google’s design

makes perfect sense and it’s possible it might do the same for regular folk. The
new layout for search result is ugly at first glance — but then Google was always
ugly until relatively recently. I very quickly learned to unconsciously take in the
information from the top favicon and URL-esque info without it really distracting
me. ...Which is basically the problem. Google’s using that same design language to
identify its ads instead of much more obvious, visually distinct methods. It’s
consistent, I guess, but it also feels deceptive.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe
secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI
on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a
specified three-month period ending on July 19. Under the terms of the blanket
order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data,
call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The
contents of the conversation itself are not
covered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the time of Giannandrea’s hiring, the move
was considered an admission from Apple that its current AI efforts were lackluster
and needing revamping, evidenced by Siri falling far behind Google Assistant and
Amazon’s Alexa in sophistication and industry adoption. Despite Siri living inside
every iPhone and arriving on the scene before any other major voice assistant,
Amazon and Google have led the race in consumer AI by incorporating their
respective assistants into smart home products, a sector where Apple has lagged due
to its stricter stances on user privacy and its delayed entrance to the smart
speaker market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApple has three current phones to
choose from, each with different characteristics and prices. The one that most
people should buy is actually the least expensive of the three: the iPhone 11.
Apple has three current phones to choose from, each with different characteristics
and prices. The one that most people should buy is actually the least expensive of
the three: the iPhone 11.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe algorithm is used by
health care providers to screen patients for \"high-risk care management\"
intervention. Under this system, patients who have especially complex medical needs
are automatically flagged by the algorithm. Once selected, they may receive
additional care resources, like more attention from doctors. As the researchers
note, the system is widely used around the United States, and for good reason.
Extra benefits like dedicated nurses and more primary care appointments are costly
for health care providers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChhattisgarh’s $71 million
free-phone program - known by the acronym SKY after its name in Hindi - is supposed
to bridge the digital divide in this state of 26 million people, which is covered
by large patches of forest and counts 7,000 villages that do not even have a
wireless data signal. The plan is to add hundreds of cellphone towers and give a
basic smartphone to every college student and one woman in every household to
connect more families to the internet and help fulfill the central government’s
goal of a \"Digital India.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlphabet’s stock rose 3.5
percent in after-hours trading, and some analysts recommended the company’s shares.
With the regulatory issue settled, they said, Google could get back to focusing on
selling ads across the internet.\"It’s like a delivery company having to pay for a
parking ticket,\" Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst, said of the penalty,
which Alphabet accounted for in the second quarter. \"It’s not a meaningful fine in
the context of the size of this company.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmazon did
not give a concrete reason for the decision beyond calling for federal regulation
of the tech, although the company says it will continue providing the software to
rights organizations dedicated to missing and exploited children and combating
human trafficking. The unspoken context here of course is the death of George
Floyd, a black man killed by former Minnesota police officers, and ongoing protests
around the US and the globe against racism and systemic police
brutality.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe same evolution took place with Amazon
Web Services, the company’s cloud computing subsidiary. It launched in 2006 as
a \"data storage service,\" but it has since become indispensable to modern tech
companies — as necessary as paper clips once were but a damn sight more profitable.
So many companies rely on Amazon’s services that when the industry grows, AWS does,
too. Last year, AWS alone made more money than McDonald’s. AWS is quite possibly
the future of Amazon, which explains why it was everywhere at
re:MARS.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWearing face masks that adequately cover the
mouth and nose causes the error rate of some of the most widely used facial
recognition algorithms to spike to between 5 percent and 50 percent, a study by the
US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found. Black masks
were more likely to cause errors than blue masks, and the more of the nose covered
by the mask, the harder the algorithms found it to identify the
face.\u003c/p\u003e"]}