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Google's Abacus May Count Out Passwords

2016-05-25 00:38:33| TechNewsWorld

By the end of the year, Android devs will be able to use a trust API from Google's Project Abacus in their apps, Google ATAP Director Dan Kaufman suggested at last week's I/O conference. The API, which will run in the background continually, is aimed at doing away with passwords. It will use a smartphone's sensors to create a cumulative trust score that will authenticate users.

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French tax inspectors raid Google's Paris office

2016-05-24 18:06:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) French financial crimes officers raided Google's Paris offices on 24 May as part of an ongoing tax fraud investigation. Le Parisien writes that over 100 civil servants from the tax office and anti-fraud brigade descended on the premises, including 25 IT specialists and five financial magistrates. The authorities' probe into Google's tax affairs began in June 2015 on suspicion of "aggravated tax fraud and organised money laundering" related to Google Europe's local subsidiary failing to pay its fair share of taxes in France.

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Google's Paris HQ raided in tax probe

2016-05-24 15:53:16| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

French finance officials raid the Paris offices of US internet giant Google as part of a 1.6bn tax fraud investigation.

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Google's New Custom Chip May Not Live Up to the Hype

2016-05-23 21:53:42| TechNewsWorld

Google last week announced the Tensor Processing Unit, a custom application-specific integrated circuit, at Google I/O. TPU was built for machine learning applications and has been running in Google's data centers for more than a year. Google's AlphaGo software, which thrashed an 18-time international Go champion in a match earlier this year, ran on servers using TPUs.

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