Tag Archives: Google

If You Get This Message From Apple Or Google, It’s An Attack(Forbes)

There’s nothing a cyber criminal likes more than highly publicized events, sudden fear and a sense of urgency. And so last week’s headlines that 16 billion passwords leaked in the “largest ever data breach” hit the jackpot. That it “opened access” to Apple and Google accounts, the most prized of all, just made it all the sweeter. […]
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Google Confirms Gmail To Ditch SMS Code Authentication(Forbes)

It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal. Just as the tech industry is slowly moving away from passwords to passkeys that take a more secure biometric approach to logins, the use of code-generating apps and even app-less approaches to two-factor authentication have increasingly become the norm […]
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AI helps to produce breakthrough in weather and climate forecasting( FT)

Advances in predictions promised by machine learning matched with physics in the latest model involving Google. Artificial intelligence has helped to make a breakthrough in accurate long-range weather and climate predictions, according to research that promises advances in both forecasting and the wider use of machine learning. Using a hybrid of machine learning and existing […]
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What Google knows about you (Dailyinfographic.com)

Ever wondered how Google knew what results to show when searching for information. Based on algorithms built into the Google search engine, Google has the ability to personalise your search results.  The below infographic explains how: (http://www.dailyinfographic.com/what-google-knows-about-you)

Google’s new AI scans thousands of books to answer your questions

By: Anne Quito April  16, 2016 Source: https://www. weforum.org  

A select group: Google joins a rarefied club (Economist)

By: The Economist February 06, 2016 Source: http://www.economist.com

Googling in Africa: Work or play (Economist)

What internet searches reveal about Anglophone and Francophone Africans By: The economist Source: http://www.economist.com/node/21654650 June 20, 2015