Tech Break (Video)

Everyone wants to talk about their own machine learning, but Google is clearly winning this war. Today CEO Sundar Pichai revealed a new machine learning chip and service called Cloud TPU, aimed at beating Amazon and Microsoft at the cloud computing game. And as the winner in this so-called war, Google is giving back. Today they said they would give a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs to researchers for free. Researchers or students can use TPUs, or TensorFlow Processor Unit (TPU), to train and infer tasks. Google's effort is intended to raise interest in machine learning and eventually to increase use of Google's cloud services. If you're interested, you can fill out a questionnaire with some basic information about the size and types of of your training sets. The formal application process will begin soon, says TechCrunch.

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WannaCry ransomware: Is Microsoft to blame? Of course not. Is the NSA? Mmmaybe...

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At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai announced Google Lens, an AI-powered image recognition engine that will work with Google Photos and Google Assistant. Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Stacey Higginbotham watch the live announcement and discuss the ramifications.

Hosts: Nathan Olivarez-Giles and Stacey Higginbotham

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Donn Felker and Mike Wolfson join Jason Howell and Ron Richards to discuss Google's newly announced Project Treble, that tackles the challenge of how Android system updates interfere with vendor modifications, and the challenges the project presents.

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Steve Gibson goes through the recent WannaCry attack and explains exactly what happened, how it happened, and why.

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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A recent report has found that Apple watch detects heart irregularity with 97% accuracy. Soon, Apple Watch could even monitor glucose levels to help manage diabetes.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has been away from the Twitter game for quite a while, but today announced that he'll be returning to the company. Jason Howell and Nathan Olivarez-Giles discuss this rejoining with Kurt Wagner from Recode.

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Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone discuss Hanx Writer by Tom Hanks and Hitcents.com. Hanx Writer is a free app for your iPhone or iPad that lets you relive the nostalgia of the manual type writer. Choose different typewriters from days gone by and type your document. It includes the sound effects you miss so much, but with auto-correct and the delete key. You can even print it.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

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Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

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Sam Abuelsamid from Navigant Research joins Jason Howell and Megan Morrone to discuss the latest developments in Uber's Waymo IP case, as well as Lyft and Waymo's reported collaboration deal covering self-driving technology.

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