A man wheeled around 99 phones in a cart to produce traffic jams on Google Maps

Technology is not constantly sure-fire and that’s exactly what a brand-new Google Maps experiment attempted to prove. Artist Simon Weckert has actually published a video on YouTube demonstrating how he managed to “hack” Google Maps to develop virtual traffic congestion on the streets of Berlin. For his experiment, Weckert filled>>>

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Study finds Google system could improve breast cancer detection

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. A yellow box indicates where an artificial intelligence (AI) system found>>>

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France fines Google 150 million euros for opaque advertising rules – Reuters

France fines Google 150 million euros for opaque advertising rules – Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – France’s competition watchdog fined Google 150 million euros ($167 million) on Friday for abusing its power over the treatment of advertisers, saying it applied opaque rules and changed them at will. FILE PHOTO: A logo>>>

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