Google’s artificial intelligence computer has beaten the European champion of the board game Go. Not just once, but 5 to 0. This game is far more difficult than Chess as it requires more than merely creating lists of patterns to beat. It requires strategy. Our computer has accomplished the same but in forecasting. Our list of […]

The Google car was pulled over in California for driving too slow. When the police realized that there was no driver, they were stumped since no driver means no ticket. My bet is that they will start fining people who just own cars, regardless of who drives. Interesting problem.

  Google lost a case in UK where people want to sue them for tracking their surfacing habits. This is one thing that should be voluntary.

FBI director James Comey, who used to be the head prosecutor in NYC the most corrupt office in the system, had come out swinging at Apple and Google for developing forms of smartphone encryption so secure that law enforcement officials cannot easily gain access to information stored on the devices – even when they have […]

Following the ECJ judgment EU citizens may apply for the cancellation of search listings on Google. The verdict triggered a veritable wave of fire fighting applications. Google has received more than 70,000 requests for deletion of their search files, including about 12,000 applications from Germany alone. Overall, it comes to the removal of more than […]

The real birth in electronic money is not Bitcoin, but Google Wallet. Standing in line at Starbucks you will see the under 25 crowd pay with their cell phones. Sorry, but Google is already there. Bitcoin cannot compete nor will traditional banks. Just as Amazon reduced book publishers to a subservient role at their direction, […]

Google won in the SDNY and may now make millions of copyrighted scanned books searchable on the Internet. A New York judge Denny Chin of the SDNY dismissed a lawsuit from the U.S. Authors’ Guild, seeking money simply for authors because their books are searchable. Quiet honestly, digitization of works is furthering knowledge and  I myself have […]

Google in trouble for sucking up private wi-fi data in networks in the UK. The question is why even do this? Is this data given to the NSA? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166

COMMENT: Marty, it looks like Trump is aware of the ECM. The markets crashed right on cue with Socrates, and he refused to rule out a recession. What is most curious is that you had a Panic Cycle for this week of the 10th. I heard you prevent Google from searching your private blog. If […]