Project Maven

A funny thing has been happening on YouTube. For some reason, certain combinations of Chinese characters have been immediately removed from the platform within a few short seconds. No warning or reason would be given to the Mandarin-speaking moderatees. And it's not like they had been foul or freaky in…

By Keoni Everington, of the Taiwan News A White House petition was created last week after news broke that the Twitter accounts of Chinese dissidents started to disappear after a controversial Chinese-American artificial intelligence (AI) expert was hired to serve on the company's board. On May 11, Twitter announced in…

Skip to comments. TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A White House Petition calls for investigation of Twitter censorship after Li Fei-Fei hired Taiwan News ^ | 5/25/20 | By Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer Posted on 05/25/2020 11:39:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A White House Petition…

By CNet May 21, 2020Comments Google announced a new deal with the Pentagon. Credit: James Martin/CNET Google on Wednesday said it had struck a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to build cloud technology designed to detect and respond to cyberthreats. The search engine giant declined to disclose the…

Last month, before Google and Apple announced their joint effort to enable COVID-19 exposure notifications, I wrote about the trouble with using Bluetooth-based solutions for contact tracing. Chief among the issues is getting a meaningful number of people to download any app in the first place, public health officials told…

2020-05-20 -- Commentators have been raising concerns over Twitter's recent hiring of artificial intelligence (AI) star Fei-Fei Li, who has links to the Chinese Communist Party. Twitter appointed Stanford professor and former Google vice president Li to its board as an independent director earlier this month, citing her AI expertise.…

Google’s cloud division revealed Wednesday it has won a Pentagon contract to upgrade the military’s cybersecurity posture with a multi-cloud solution built on Anthos, its new Kubernetes platform. Google said the award comes through the Defense Innovation Unit, which is looking to the third-largest public cloud provider to help defend…

Google announced a new deal with the Pentagon. James Martin/CNET Google on Wednesday said it had struck a deal with the US Department of Defense to build cloud technology designed to detect and respond to cyberthreats. Google declined to disclose the terms of the deal but said the sum was…

Commentators have been raising concerns over Twitter's recent hiring of artificial intelligence (AI) star Fei-Fei Li, who has links to the Chinese Communist Party.Twitter appointed Stanford professor and former Google vice president Li to its board as an independent director earlier this month, citing her AI expertise.Li's appointment came after…

Google Cloud has landed a deal to help the Department of Defense combat cyber threats worldwide.The deal will see Google's cloud division provide tools to the DoD's Defense Innovation Unit.But it could also prove controversial. Google has seen backlash in the past over its military partnerships, and while this deal…