Google Glass Banned From Shareholder Meeting

[onehandle]

Source: CNBC

Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy.

Google Glass is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display that's in prototype and lets users search the web, use apps and respond to spoken instructions. However, its most controversial feature is its ability to record video, an issue that has raised privacy concerns.

"Cameras, recording devices, and other electronic devices, such as smart phones, will not be permitted at the meeting. Photography is prohibited at the meeting," instructions for Thursday's 2013 annual meeting of Google shareholders in California said.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-glass-banned-shareholder-meeting-093913027.html

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Ready when you are

Mr DeMille.

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. Google stinks.

[NYC_SKP]

3. The Google can watch you and record every detail.

But you cannot record the Google.

[steve2470]

4. Irony, thou hast met your match in Google nt

[freshwest]

5. Whatcha hiding Google? Trying to take over the world or sumthin'?

...It is the near future, and Geoception, Inc is the world's leader in unmanned security systems. Using networks of combat drones in place of mercenaries, they have revolutionized private security contracting. Cities and nations, one by one, begin to see the cheap, efficient robotic policing services they provide as a God-send in hard economic times... in some cases, entirely removing the need for any human police in the city.

With precision and efficiency, you must play the role of security drone operator in this game environment -- neutralizing hostiles, destroying targets, engaging the enemy, and "spreading the peace"... until it covers the entire world...

Google Earth offers us easily the largest map ever in a video game. You could play for years and never explore it all. And Google is always hard at work with their (real-world) cars, planes, and ships, mapping and modeling the world's cities and sea floors in great detail. This means the giant game map that is Google Earth is always improving in quality and accuracy, without any input from us. And every time you interact with this game map, you learn something about the real world you live in...

Earthling Technology is a one-man operation based in Austin, TX. I'm Satyen Sarhad -- software developer and creative mad scientist -- and I've worked professionally in various areas for the last 10 years, including video games, artificial intelligence, defense, and telecommunications systems. I'm 34 years old and I have a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/945876709/geoception-reality-gaming-in-google-earth

Just a game. Then again:



Google Gives $5M To Build Drones That Hunt Poachers

Google has provided the World Wildlife Fund with $5 million to fund a big data system and aerial drones to help catch gangs illegally hunting endangered species.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/12/09/google-gives-5m-to-build-drones-that-hunt-poachers/


Note: This image is not an actual Google-funded drone.

First things first:

No, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is not using drones to vaporize poachers. But thanks to a five million dollar grant awarded by Google on Tuesday, the organization is expanding its use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track and deter criminals who illegally hunt endangered animal species around the world.

WWF spokesman Lee Poston is not calling these vehicles drones, because he doesn't want people to confuse them with the military kind. According to Poston, they are "sophisticated radio-controlled devices like hobbyists use" that can be "controlled from your iPad or other device." But the WWF website does call them "conservation drones."

Prior to receiving the Google grant, the WWF had already deployed trackers in Nepal's national parks. These drones are light enough to be launched by hand and can be programmed to fly about 18 miles at a maximum elevation of 650 feet, for almost an hour. The cameras on the drones allow rangers on the ground to spot would-be poachers, especially in hard-to-reach places...

The anti-poachers are exploring other high-tech measures as well. "We are looking into how to track animal parts using things like DNA," says Poston. "So if a ranger find a rhino horn on the ground, we can figure out what happened..."

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/12/rhino-poacher-meet-drone-funded-google

Yup, definitely up to sumthin'

[DCKit]

6. Hunting (and killing) poachers is the only thing drones should have ever been used for. nt