Google has filed a patent for a smart book with multiple screens
The concept of the foldable smartphone—a device like your average smartphone that can fold out and connect screens into something more like a tablet—is already in play. But what would… Read more »
2019 will be a big year for works entering the public domain
Mickey Mouse is a powerful political figure in this country. Year after year his name appears as a write-in candidate in electoral returns. He (well, he and his crack legal team)… Read more »
Surprisingly, Google hadn’t been in the audiobook biz. Until now.
Since its launch in the mid-90s, Audible has pretty much been the only game in audiotown—Michael Kozolowski called it “the undisputed market leader in audiobook production [with] the world’s largest… Read more »
Google these poems and change the way people think of Miami’s inmates
It’s a fact that the United States incarcerates a greater percentage of its population than any country in the world. But thinking about the problem as numbers instead of people… Read more »
This machine-learning-equipped toxic comment detector is not yet great at its job
Alphabet, a top-dollar media conglomerate that began as, and is now the parent company of, Google, has been fooling around a bit with machine learning. The group’s latest offering, Perspective,… Read more »
“If you can fall in love with a statue, I don’t see why you couldn’t fall in love with a neural network trained on romance novels.”
This quote from Google’s Andrew Dai pretty much says everything you need to know about the search giant’s latest effort to humanize its consumer-facing AI interfaces. But these posts are supposed to be… Read more »
Leading authors take Google Books copyright appeal to Supreme Court
Last week, we wrote about ‘Books at Play’, Google’s new project with experimental publisher Visual Editions to create digital reading experiences in the form of “books that cannot be printed.”… Read more »
Google and Visual Editions launch Editions at Play
The experimental publisher Visual Editions has teamed up with Google to launch ‘Editions at Play’, a digital bookstore “for books that cannot be printed.” The first titles, which have been… Read more »
While Moby’s been away: It’s been awhile. We’ve been away unleashing a bunch of incredible books (check out our Fall Books Preview), dueling it out on Twitter (ahem), transitioning into our autumnal wear, and… Read more »
Two For Tuesday: Are Corporations Totally Awesome At Everything?
Topics discussed: airports, music that inspired airports but that’s not necessarily for airports, big corporations, bigger corporations, Google, Google Translate, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Laundry, The Internship, The Interview,… Read more »