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‘Why does googling ‘idiot’ FIRST CEO MIDWEST EDITION | EAST COAST EDITION | Volume 9 oogle • Issue No.Sundar 493 DECEMBER 14, 2018 | THE COMMUNITY Pichai on Tuesday
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denied that the tech giant favors the more progressive political currents, in contrast to what some legislators and media outlets have claimed, in his first appearance before the US Congress. “I lead this company without political bias and work to ensure that our products continue to operate that way. To do otherwise would go against our core principles and our business interests. We are a company that provides platforms for diverse perspectives and opinions — and we have no shortage of them among our own employees,” Pichai told the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Google CEO said that Google does “want to allow for diverse perspectives and opinions, but we have rules of the road. When we find violations on our policies, we do remove those videos x (from YouTube),” Efe reported. In recent months, the committee headed by Republican Sen. Bob Goodlatte has held hearings focusing on whether big tech firms
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WASHINGTON: US Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, in an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, asked its CEO Sundar Pichai why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot”. “Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. I just did that,” the California Democrat told Pichai during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday here. “How would that happen? How does search work so that would occur?” Lofgren asked Pichai, according to the Washington Post. The Google CEO — who was at
the hearing to address allegations of political bias in his company’s widely used search engine — said the results were based on billions of keywords ranked according to over 200 factors such as relevance, popularity, how others were using the search term, to determine how to best match a query with results. “So it’s not some little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what we’re going to show the user?” Lofgren asked. “It’s basically a compilation of what users are generating.” Republicans have long accused Google of political bias, which the company has strongly denied. In August, Trump said in a tweet that a Google search for “Trump
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on December 11. (Photo: Xinhua)
News” showed only reports from “Fake News Media.” He concluded it was “rigged” against him so “almost all stories and news was bad.” House Republicans said they wanted to hold the hearing — entitled “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices” — to make sure the search giant was being impartial. —IANS
used accounts on their platforms to disseminate divisive political messages with the aim of influencing the 2016 presidential election. In April, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg also faced lawmakers’ questions, although on that occasion they focused on the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that gained unauthorized access to 87 million Facebook user accounts. On Monday, Google announced that it had decided to move up the closure of its social networking platform Google+ to April 2019 after detecting a new security breach that exposed the private information of 52.5 million users.
says the Google CEO Top Indian and global long as they don’t violate its policies, india feature personalities attend A PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST A presidential contest between what was described as Huawei Canadian court frees NASA’s Voyager 2 is now also in interstellar space CFO on bail BETWEEN MODI AND RAHUL ‘a royal wedding’ for Modi and Rahul on the cards? F The taking CARDS? of center-stage by the Congress President is likely to turn the 2019 ge Ambanis and Piramals ON THE election into a presidential-style contest between him and Narendra Modi
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display any kind of anti-conservative bias against such policies or lawmakers, among other controversies. Another basic question being handled in these hearings has been
VANCOUVER: A Canadian court MAYANK CHHAYA, CHICAGO has granted bail to Chinese tech orty-one years after it left company Huawei’s Chief Financial Earth, NASA’s Voyager 2 Officer (CFO), who has been probe has now become only accused of helping the firm dodge the second human-made object to American sanctions on Iran, while enter interstellar space after its she awaits a hearing on extradition twin Voyager 1 did in 2012. to the US. Since November 5, the instruMeng Wanzhou’s bail on Tuesment on Voyager day night comes after threeAMULYA days of GANGUL, NEW DELHI2 that detects plasma from the Sun, also called hearings, the Guardian reported. solar wind, has notthe observed solar Meng, 46, was arrested in Vany setting in motion wind, indicating that it has left the couver on December 1 at the of undoing the heliosphere, “the protective bubble request of American authorities. process pro-Bharatiya of particles and magnetic fields creMeng spent more than a week pronounced by the Sun.” in custody and cited her poor Janataated Party (BJP) tilt in health — including previous cancerpolitics Voyager Indian when 2theis now partysome 18 billion kilometers surgery and difficulty eating solid secured a majority in the Lok away Sabhacompared to Voyager 1 at 21.6 billion kilomefoods — as grounds for bail. and ruled at one time overoffering 19 states,a measure of ters, both In granting her release, Justice the voters of how the far threetheheartland empire of the Sun William Ehrcke of the Supreme stretches. In terms of the reach of Court outlined 15 provisions includstates of Rajasthan, Madhya heliospheric have particles ing Meng submitting to constant Pradesh and Chhattisgarh sent or particles from the Sun, both spacecraft are surveillance and wearing a GPS out two unambiguous messages. effectively outside of it but they tracking device, surrendering both oldhave warning a long about way to traverse for her passports and providingOne a is thestill a fall. The hyperthem to escape the influence of $7 mil-preceding bond of C$10 million (USpride solar gravity . Amit lion). bole—IANS of the BJP president
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the ability of the tech companies to deal with foreign interference in US elections. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the Senate in September that their firms are now
“better prepared” to combat those type of attacks. Sandberg and Dorsey defended their efforts almost a year after their companies confirmed before the same committee that Russia
This illustration shows position of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes. (Photo: NASA)
Voyager 2,300 years to enter the inner edge of the Oort Cloud, a collection of small objects still affected by the Sun’s gravity. Estimates of how far the Oort Cloud stretches vary between about 1,000 astronomical units (AU) - one AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth of about 150 million kilometers - and 100,000 AU. It
will take the probes up to 30,000 years to completely cross the Oort Cloud. The Sun’s heat can no longer touch Voyager 2 but its gravity still can. However, for all practical purposes, both spacecraft are in interstellar space or the space between stars. One everyday example of how much technology has been
revolutionised since they left, smartphones now have 200,000 times memory than the two probes. With that little memory, the duo produced remarkable images of planets unlike the often pointless selfies that people produce using their powerful smartphones. The Voyager missions have been in the forefront an astonishing success for NASA. bandhan (grand Originally built to last five years especially when they both lasted nearly eight times convener of th that and during those four decades drababu Naidu, transformed human understanding of the solar system. They both conback because of ducted close-up studies of Jupiter Party’s poor sho and Saturn. gana elections. NASA altered the path of Voyager such that it conducted flybys The taking of Congress preside of Uranus and Neptune, making the first exploration of those very the 2019 gener distant planets. The two spacecraft presidential-style are expected to last billions of him and Narend years, drifting around in space and could be the only available evi- Now that a is on th dence of human civilization contest in deep space for a prospective advisable for Ra advanced civilization. up to the lesson
As NASA explains, Shah’s declaration that his party it will take will rule for 50 years has been shown to be so much hot air as has been the observation of a loyal Page 6 mandarin, national security adviser Narendra Modi Rahul Gandhi Ajit Doval, that the country needs a strong, stable government - obvi- statue of Lord Ram. tion and agricultural distress have any effect on his emergence as a ously meaning Narendra Modi’s capable leader, who took the lead But none of these achievements spelt doom for the BJP. Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal after their marriage in Mumbai. (Photo: IANS) rule - for the next 10 years. The second message from the in addressing the media after the and claims have saved it from a 0Parekh, Sashi and Anshuman Ruia, award winning singer Beyonce It was in keeping with these 3 drubbing at the hustings. The results is that Rahul Gandhi has recent opposition conclave while Buying or aSelling Your Business Adi Godrej, Rahul Bajaj and Harsh Knowles, four-day special ‘AnnaHome or grandiose assertions that the BJP lesson from this electoral white- succeeded in exposing the falsity of veterans like Sharad Pawar and Mariwala were also seen atCALL the Seva’ and an expo on traditional world’s tallest statue - of wash of the three BJP-ruled states the charges that had been leveled H.D. Deve Gowda remained in FOR BUSINESS LOAN >> $100K TO built $10 the MILLION Advisory & Business Consulting wedding. Indian handicrafts, besides other against him ever since he came into the background. Congress stalwart Vallabhbhai is that no mercy Financial can be expected The grand wedding festivities events for home the guests that3% includ– Domestic electorate for REPRESENTATION the Modi politics. Yet, neither being derisive-&Int'lIt Issues is now obvious after the ConPatel, whom the BJP can be said to from theIRS/AUDIT You can buy only down had started several days earlier in ed many of the biggest names failure to keep the ly called “Pappu” or an adolescent gress’s success in Rajasthan, Madhave misappropriated from the government’s Sr. OVDP Representation Buying home just need Residential Mortgage Consultant, NMLS# 697450 Udaipur, Rajasthan which wit- from politics, business and BollyCongress - and announced the promise of vikas or development. kid, or of being a “pathological hya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh that Direct: 847.877.9362 nessed a performance by Grammy wood. 550 credit. plans for an almost equally large It is obvious that economic stagna- liar”, to quote Arun Jaitley, had Rahul Gandhi will increasingly be
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