"Google intends to expand access to Project Starline to healthcare and media partners"
Sorry, but all the alerts go off when reading that.
Google is the last company I want accessing my medical records.
What you need to know from today's Google IO: Chatty AI, collab tools, TPU v4 chips, quantum computing
Google today opened its developer conference, the aptly named Google IO, with a somber nod to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic from Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai. "In some places, people are beginning to live their lives again as cases decline. Other places like Brazil and my home country of India are going through their most …
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Wednesday 19th May 2021 07:53 GMT Androgynous Cupboard
Re: "Google intends to expand access to Project Starline to healthcare and media partners"
Calm down dear, your knee is jerking again. It's a video conferencing unit, it clearly has nothing to do with medical records.
Did you actually look at the project starline webpage? I have to say, from what I can see there it's f*ing amazing. Start the cloying-looking video at the bottom of the page, choke back your urge to vomit and skip and skip to 35s in - the camera pans behind the persons head, and you can see the change in perspective on the projected person's head.
Genuinely impressive technology, and I don't say that very often. All that's missing are the technical details - how deep is the unit? How much power does it use? When can I get one for me and one for my parents?
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Wednesday 19th May 2021 00:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: A Woke Clippy?
Please, what is this the 90s? The diminutive term "Clippy" is dismissive and patronizing, they prefer "Clippoid" as "Clipperson" is too anthrocentric.
Yeah, like the tragic jean choices this year, all that is old is new again. Which is to say shovel whatever you had in the back of the warehouse out as we were collectively driven to distraction over the last year.
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