Google’s Vic Gundotra is best known for his engineering work at Mountain View’s most famous company, most recently heading up the development of Google+. However, he recently took time out of his busy schedule to take part in an ad for Mercdes Benz, talking about his appreciation of the car’s engineering. Despite having been posted to the official Mercedes Benz USA YouTubechannelon the last day of June, the video is showing just 922 views at present....

While we’ve heard some great stories aboutGoogle’s Street Viewover the years, it’s not often that we get to see the technology behind that makes it all happen. As Google has traveled the world, gathering Street Views for Google Maps and more, the team has collected some amazing images that we’ve not gotten to see as of yet. According to theGoogle Lat Long Blog, a revamp of the Street View page should fix these matters....

A team of scientists from Google Research, the Alan Turing Institute, and Cambridge University recently unveiled a new state of the art (SOTA) multimodal transformer for AI. In other words, they’re teaching AI how to ‘hear’ and ‘see’ at the same time. Up front:You’ve probably heard about transformer AI systems such as GPT-3. At their core, they process and categorize data from a specific kind of media stream. Under the current SOTA paradigm, if you wanted to parse the data from a video you’d need several AI models running concurrently....

Google’s top search result? Surprise! It’s Google The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page Pushed down the page To determine the amount of space Google dedicates on the search page to direct answers and its own products, we built a custom scraper to gather all trending Google searches for two months, starting in November 2019....

Wael Ghonim, the Google director that hit the headlines after he was kidnapped by Egyptian government officials during the political uprising in Egypt back in January, has today announced he is totemporarily leavethe search giant. Deciding to take a long term sabbatical to start a technology focused organisation to help fight poverty in his native country, Ghonimposted a messageto his Twitter account, noting that the non government organisation would also foster education in Egypt:...