🤣 ‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing

🏃‍♂️ AI detects doping with minimal data

• Scientists at Saarland University developed AI software to detect doping in top athletes using minimal data, promising to streamline doping checks at events like the Olympics.

• This AI system requires only three urine samples throughout an athlete's career to accurately identify doping, by analyzing seven specific steroid-related characteristics in each sample.

• The software identifies unusual patterns in new urine samples, achieving 99% certainty in detecting non-doped athletes, while questionable cases undergo further manual DNA testing for confirmation.

🏓 Google's new robot can play table tennis like humans

• Google's DeepMind team has developed a table tennis robot that performs at a "solidly amateur" human level, successfully competing against beginner and intermediate players while struggling against advanced ones.

• During testing, the robot achieved a 55% win rate against intermediate players, winning 45% of the 29 games it played in total, but it failed to win any matches against advanced players.

• DeepMind identifies the robot's main weaknesses as reacting to fast balls and dealing with system latency, suggesting improvements like advanced control algorithms and predictive models for better performance.

🕊️ Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies at 56

• Long-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki, who contributed significantly to Google's growth and led YouTube for nearly a decade, has passed away at the age of 56.

• Wojcicki joined Google in 1998, became YouTube's CEO in 2014, and stepped down in February 2023 due to health issues; she had been battling non-small cell lung cancer.

• Throughout her career, Wojcicki was instrumental in developing Google's advertising business and played a key role in acquiring YouTube and DoubleClick, shaping the company’s digital advertising dominance.

🏠 Largest 3D-printed neighborhood nears completion

• A massive 3D printer, known as Vulcan, is constructing 100 homes in Georgetown, Texas, making it the largest 3D-printed neighborhood in the world.

• ICON Technology, a Texas-based company, developed the nearly 5-ton, 45-foot wide printer, which builds homes faster, cheaper, and with less waste compared to traditional methods.

• This construction method reduces the need for multiple crews, sparking concerns about its impact on the labor force, with the potential to make some jobs obsolete, according to industry experts.

🤣 ‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing

• Apple's senior VP, Eddy Cue, testified during the Google antitrust trial that Microsoft could not offer any price that would make Apple use Bing as the default search engine in Safari, highlighting Google's dominant position.

• The trial revealed that Google pays Apple billions of dollars annually to maintain its default search engine status on Safari, a contract that is crucial for both companies and has been extended multiple times.

• Judge Amit Mehta concluded that social media platforms like TikTok and specialized vertical providers are not true competitors to Google Search, and stated that even AI search does not yet pose a significant threat to Google's search business model.