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Calico: Google’s first leap into health enhancement

Posted on September 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Calico: How Google’s stab at the fountain of youth could transform health care
Christina Farr, venturebeat.com

Google is back in the health business with a mysterious new initiative to combat death itself.

Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the biotech venture, called Calico, when they announced it on Sept. 18, except to say that i…

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Google Inc.’s Startup, Calico, Snags Big Biotech Names: Ex-Genentech Exec Top Scientist (biospace.com)
Eric Logan: Students raise a Google Glass to good health | news @ Northeastern (northeastern.edu)
Calico enlists a genetics A-Team for its mysterious anti-aging venture (venturebeat.com)
The Slowing Down or End of Aging? (dontmindmedotnet.wordpress.com)

Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing

Posted on January 29, 2013 by timbatchelder

Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing
Steven Levy, wired.com

Entreprenuer, author and investor Tim O’Reilly has been seeing around corners for decades now. Here’s what he sees coming next.

Steven Levy

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16 Things I Might Change If I Was Launching a Travel Startup Today (bootsnall.com)
With BootsnAll’s Indie, Search Round-the-World Flight Prices Without a Phone Call (travel.booklocker.com)
BootsnAll Launches Indie – the World’s First Multi-Country Flight Finder (bootsnall.com)
↪ Tim O’Reilly on creating the next big thing (wired.com)
Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing (wired.com)
Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing (adafruit.com)
10 Things You Should Know About Round The World Tickets (bootsnall.com)
Google CEO: Facebook is doing a really bad job (techdistro.wordpress.com)
10 Ways to Save Money on Your Travels by Planning Ahead (flipkey.com)

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

Posted on January 15, 2013 by timbatchelder

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable true natural language understanding (nextbigfuture.com)
Exclusive Interview: Ray Kurzweil Discusses His First Two Months At Google (singularityhub.com)
Ray Kurzweil Sees No Reason Why He Should Accept Death (betabeat.com)
Deep Learning (technologyreview.com)
Deep Learning (semanticweb.com)

Google designers tasked to revamp search experience

Posted on December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder

How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search
By Sarah Kessler, fastcodesign.com

Google Search’s designers are treating what was once just an ugly list of links like a software application.

On the same day that Larry Page became Google’s CEO for the second time, he ordered a redesign of all its products. Which came as a…

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How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search (fastcodesign.com)
You: How Google’s Designers Are Quietly Overhauling Search – Co.Design (designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations.wordpress.com)

Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

Posted on December 14, 2012 by timbatchelder

Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering
Alexis Santos, engadget.com

Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev…

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