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Google Issues First Call for DevArtists

Like beauty, isn’t art in the eye of the beholder? It really should come as no surprise that Google views coding as the new artistic frontier. Google has issued a Call for Artists for a new type of art created with code: DevArt.

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Pamela Rentz
Is It Time for Cloud Providers to Control Malware Distribution?

A recent Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report by Solutionary has revealed some alarming numbers about malware distributors and their hosting providers. Rajini Padmanaban looks at whether hosting providers are proactively rooting out malware or if they may actually be a part of the problem.

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Rajini Padmanaban
Google Introduces Smart Contact Lens That Reads Glucose Levels

Google announced that it is in the process of developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels through tears. This innovation has the potential to help more than just diabetics. These lenses could one day measure other biometric data, and they could even become the next Google Glass.

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Beth Romanik
NSA Uses Special Google Cookies to Aid in Surveillance

In another news item released this week from the seemingly never-ending treasure trove that is the leaked Edward Snowden documents, details emerge of how the National Security Agency (NSA) is taking advantage of Google's cookies and other location data to help its surveillance operations.

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Jonathan Vanian
November Security News Roundup

In the following roundup of the latest security news, read how a team of researchers from North Carolina State University discovered security flaws in Google's Android OS and how seven popular open source applications and products contain vulnerabilities that hackers could potentially exploit.

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Jonathan Vanian
Will Google’s Flu Trends Be Better This Year?

Unfortunately, it’s that time of year when you may feel like you’re coming down with the flu. If so, what do you do first? Call the doctor? There’s a good chance you—and millions of others—plugs “flu symptoms” into their web browser. Pamela Rentz looks at Google Flu Trends and its accuracy.

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Pamela Rentz
A First Look inside the Google/NASA Quantum Computer Lab

Google has announced a partnership with NASA and the Universities Space Research Association to launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab. The organizations are to conduct collaborative research using a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer from D-Wave Systems.

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Pamela Rentz
Large Organizations Have Unique Problems—Just Ask Google

Google has been famous for its 20 percent time policy, but recently there has been growing speculation that this policy is kind of dying within Google. Is the organization's large size to blame? Anuj Magazine looks at some of the unique problems inherent in large organizations.

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Anuj Magazine