Google Is Using AI To Update Certain Listings
Google has shared how it’s using artificial intelligence, including its restaurant-calling Duplex tech, to try and keep business hours up to date on Google Maps. The company says that if it is confident enough in the AI’s prediction of what a business’s hours should be, it will update the information in Maps.
In a blog post, Google outlines the various factors it’s AI analyzes to determine whether it should do these updates. First, it looks at when the business profile was last updated, other similar shops’ hours, and Popular Times data to decide how likely it is that the hours are incorrect. For example: if Google sees that a lot of people visit the shop when it’s supposedly closed, that may be a red flag.
Google spokesperson Genevieve Park told The Verge that Google will “only publish business hours when we have a high degree of confidence that they’re accurate.” If the AI thinks the hours may be incorrect but doesn’t have a solid prediction, it adds a notice that the hours may have changed.
Park also said that Google doesn’t explicitly tell users when hours were updated by its AI and explained that AI is used pretty much everywhere else in Google Maps. It seems like Google’s pretty bullish on its AI-driven approach. In its post, the company says it’s “on track to update the hours for over 20 million businesses around the globe in the next six months.”
Google also says it’s piloting another use of AI in Maps to help keep speed limits up to date. In the US, I’ll try to see if its partners have taken images of stretches of road that have speed limit signs and will have AI help its operations team identify the sign and the speed limit posted on it.
While it’s no surprise that Google’s using AI for these problems, it is interesting to see how many interlocking systems are involved. There’s computer vision, pattern recognition in location trends, and analyzing data about similar locations (which, of course, also involves figuring out what the similar locations even are), all to quietly try and keep up with how often businesses change their hours and make sure it knows the speed limit on certain stretches of road.
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Did You Know That Google Earth Has A Timelapse Tool
Google Earth comes loaded with plenty of cool features, including a timelapse tool that can show you how our planet has changed.
Alphabet’s Google Earth is one of the handiest tools to exist in our time. Google Earth can show you how your hometown has changed in recent years
The service uses satellite imaging to let you explore all corners of the world – some in 3D – from your computer. And as of last April, users can now access a clever timelapse feature that shows how their neighbourhood has changed over the last 37 years. Googler sourced more than 24 million satellite photos taken over four decades for the tool.
This feature aims to show “not just problems but also solutions,” per a Google blog post.
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Rebecca Moore, the director of Google Earth, further noted that the Google Earth’s timelapse tool can also display “mesmerizingly beautiful natural phenomena that unfold over decades”. The tech giant has plans to add new images to the project continuously over the next decade.
Google is working closely with Nasa, the US Geological Survey’s Landsat program, and the European Union’s Copernicus program on the project. Meanwhile, the timelapse feature is being powered by Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab.
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Is Your Chrome Browser Up To Date?
Chrome has 3.2 billion users worldwide and now every single one of them needs to act because Google has confirmed multiple new hacks of its browser. Here is everything you need to know to stay safe.
Google released the news on its official blog, confirming 11 successful Chrome hacks have been discovered, nine of which it says pose a ‘High’ threat level. The hacks affect Chrome running on every major platform, including Windows, Mac and Linux.
As for the hacks themselves, they remain top secret with Google warning that “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix.” In short, Google is buying users time to protect themselves. Consequently, all we know right now are the threat levels, trackers, areas of exploitation and source:
- High – CVE-2022-1305: Use after free in storage. Reported by Anonymous on 2022-01-07
- High – CVE-2022-1306: Inappropriate implementation in compositing. Reported by Sven Dysthe on 2022-02-21
- High – CVE-2022-1307: Inappropriate implementation in full screen. Reported by Irvan Kurniawan (sourc7) on 2022-03-01
- High – CVE-2022-1308: Use after free in BFCache. Reported by Samet Bekmezci @sametbekmezci on 2021-12-28
- High – CVE-2022-1309: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools. Reported by David Erceg on 2020-07-17
- High – CVE-2022-1310: Use after free in regular expressions. Reported by Brendon Tiszka on 2022-03-18
- High – CVE-2022-1311: Use after free in Chrome OS shell. Reported by Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13) and Guang Gong of 360 Alpha Lab on 2022-03-28
- High – CVE-2022-1312: Use after free in storage. Reported by Leecraso and Guang Gong of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute on 2022-03-30
- Medium – CVE-2022-1313: Use after free in tab groups. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2021-11-16
- Medium – CVE-2022-1314: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Bohan Liu (@P4nda20371774) of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab on 2022-03-09
Following several high-profile V8 attacks, ‘Use-After-Free’ (UAF) exploits once again dominate the Chrome threats and have now cracked Chrome security approximately 55x in 2022. Moreover, successful Chrome attacks are increasing in frequency — something Google acknowledges but also defends.
For the full Google article, please visit – https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html
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