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Technology: Google Maps rolls out estimated toll charges for a journey in India

Google has rolled out a new Google Maps feature that estimates how much one has to pay in tolls while navigating through a certain route. Read more on Dynamite News:

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Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer browser and redirect users to Edge

Company says decision to disable desktop app comes as web developers less likely to make sites compatible with browser, which first graced computers in 1995

The Guardian - AU

Analyst Recommends Buying Apple, Microsoft And Google Stock, Citing This Investment Advice From Warren Buffett

The Nasdaq has led the broader markets lower since the start of the year as inflation concerns ripple through technology names. However, mega cap tech stocks have shown relative strength and one analyst sees opportunity in a few of the market giants.

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Google says its AI chatbot system LaMDA is not sentient. But how do they know?

Current AI systems aren't sentient, but their successors may be. When the time comes, how will we know?

ABC News

YouTube comments not showing: Thousands of users perplexed at major bug on Google site

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

Daily Mirror

Human-like programs abuse our empathy – even Google engineers aren’t immune

Consumers need transparency about how such systems are used, says professor of linguistics Emily M Bender

The Guardian - UK

Google to give £98million to female employees who were paid less than men for years

Holly Pease, a former Google manager, is one of the plaintiffs and hopes the tech giant's massive settlement will pave the way forward for equal pay among workers regardless of gender

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Canada and Denmark end decades-long dispute over barren rock in Arctic

Hans Island ‘whisky war’ – described by some as a ‘pseudo-confrontation’ – ends after formal division agreed

The Guardian - UK

We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here's what it revealed about sentience

Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,

The Conversation

OnePlus Nord 2T review: one of the most convincing €400 smartphones you can buy

OnePlus Nord 2T adds 80W superfast charging and an upgraded processor for a lower starting price than its predecessor

Irish Mirror

Labelling Google’s LaMDA chatbot as sentient is fanciful. But it’s very human to be taken in by machines

We need more safeguards in place to prevent us from mistaking machines for humans

The Guardian - AU

A Google Engineer Says His AI Has Become Sentient, Can Feel Joy And Even Fears ‘Being Turned Off’

A Google engineer was put on leave for violating confidentiality after he published a conversation with a Google AI he claimed was sentient.

Pedestrian.tv

A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?

Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA has achieved a long-held dream of AI developers: it has become sentient.

The Conversation

Shona Craven: Is it time for robots to have fundamental rights?

WHAT makes you a person? Is it your brain? Your whole body? Or is it the thoughts in your head and the feelings in your heart?

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Relax, Google’s LaMDA chatbot is nowhere near sentient

Just because you designed a good NPC doesn't make it HAL 9000.

Benzinga

Alphabet Whale Trades For June 13

A whale with a lot of money to spend has taken a noticeably bearish stance on Alphabet. Looking at options history for Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) we detected 420 strange trades.

Inverse

NASA loses 2 cyclone-tracking satellites after launch company Astra rocket fails

In this edition of HORIZONS, read about a new setback for NASA's storm-monitoring program and private space company Astra, a new flesh-covered robot finger, and more.

The Canberra Times

Criminal googles whether destroying gun clues 'strictly Hollywood'

The woman searched: "does wiping a gun with a cloth really eliminate fingerprints or is this strictly a Hollywood fantasy?"

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Tribune News Service

Google to pay $118 million to more than 15,000 women in gender-bias settlement

Google has agreed to pay $118 million to more than 15,000 women to settle a years-long class-action lawsuit alleging the Mountain View, California, company discriminated against female employees.

Mic

Why is this allegedly sentient chatbot making me so emotional?

A psychologist explains why our response to Google's existential AI bot says more about us than it does about AI.

Benzinga

$1000 Invested In This Stock 15 Years Ago Would Be Worth $8,400 Today

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has outperformed the market over the past 15 years by 9.0% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 15.23%. Currently, Alphabet has a market capitalization of $1.42 trillion.

Tribune News Service

If abortion is made a crime, will Microsoft, Amazon and other big data players cooperate with police?

In a moment when dozens of states are poised to curtail abortion access, Washington has been put forward as a safe harbor for reproductive rights.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Google, Facebook, Twitter Will Have to Tackle Deepfakes or Risk EU Fines

Alphabet unit Google , Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies will have to take measures to counter deepfakes and fake accounts on their platforms or risk hefty fines, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. The measure is part of the European Commission's updated code of practice on disinformation…

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Will ‘thinking’ AI and blockchain run future cities?

Following reports Google has developed a “sentient” artificial intelligence chatbot allegedly capable of reasoning and thinking, what is the future role of AI and the vast amounts of data washing around London?

The Guardian - US

John Oliver on big tech: ‘Ending a monopoly is almost always a good thing’

The Last Week Tonight host examined Google, Amazon and Apple and efforts to address ‘anti-competitive conduct’

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