US: Google and BIG propose one million square feet of offices in Sunnyvale
By JONATHAN HILBURG From The Architects Newspaper Google has been on an expansion tear lately, and has announced plans to follow their recently approved Mountain View, California housing development with a new campus in neighboring Sunnyvale. The one-million-square-foot project will…
Google opens new AI lab and invests $3.4M in Montreal-based AI research
By Darrell Etherington From Techcrunch Google has invested a total of $4.5 million CAD ($3.4M US) in AI research in Montreal’s Institute for Learning Algorithms, with an academic fund covering three years that will help pay for seven faculty members…
Google opens new AI lab and invests $3.4M in Montreal-based AI research
By Darrell Etherington From TechCrunch Google has invested a total of $4.5 million CAD ($3.4M US) in AI research in Montreal’s Institute for Learning Algorithms, with an academic fund covering three years that will help pay for seven faculty members…
Alphabet’s latest project is Birth Control for Mosquitoes
By Antonio Regalado From Biomedicine At one of Alphabet’s campuses in Mountain View, California, entomologists working behind the steel door of a bio-safety lab are breeding mosquitoes in a new effort by the search giant to create automated insect farms….
Obama administration heads to Detroit to speed up self-driving car rules, report
By Nick Jaynes From Mashable Federal regulations regarding the implementation and operation of self-driving cars might be in the works. According to Reuters, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is set to be in Detroit Thursday to discuss the Obama administration’s efforts…
Big US wireless companies target of whistleblower suit
By Marisa Kendall, From The Recorder A newly-unsealed lawsuit in Sacramento County accuses some of the nation’s biggest wireless service providers of defrauding the state of California by charging for services they didn’t provide. The suit accuses Verizon Wireless, Sprint…
