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this sounds like one of those Google PR moments where they desperately try to paint themselves as the good guys. Remember when they announced contact lenses to

by agos 1y ago

this sounds like one of those Google PR moments where they desperately try to paint themselves as the good guys. Remember when they announced contact lenses to help people with diabetes? Maybe this is related to the talk about splitting Google that's going around these days?

doublerabbit 1y ago
You mean White Washing? How dare to think Google would think of such a thing. They're not evil after-all.
neuronexmachina 1y ago
> Remember when they announced contact lenses to help people with diabetes? For anyone curious about what happened with that: https://web.archive.org/web/20181117031510/https://blog.verily.com/2018/11/update-on-our-smart-lens-program-with.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181117031510/https://blog.veri... > Our clinical work on the glucose-sensing lens demonstrated that there was insufficient consistency in our measurements of the correlation between tear glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device. In part, this was associated with the challenges of obtaining reliable tear glucose readings in the complex on-eye environment. For example, we found that interference from biomolecules in tears resulted in challenges in obtaining accurate glucose readings from the small quantities of glucose in the tear film. In addition, our clinical studies have demonstrated challenges in achieving the steady state conditions necessary for reliable tear glucose readings.
foota 1y ago
It seems like these news articles about XYZ superscaler announce agreement to purchase power from nuclear startup come up every few months. My assumption is that there's very little needed from Google et al to sign these agreements, and the upside is very cheap power if the startup miraculously pulls it off, so they might as well.
rockemsockem 1y ago
You don't think Google is interested in getting more energy for less money?

by agos 1y ago

doublerabbit 1y ago

You mean White Washing? How dare to think Google would think of such a thing. They're not evil after-all.

neuronexmachina 1y ago

> Remember when they announced contact lenses to help people with diabetes? For anyone curious about what happened with that: https://web.archive.org/web/20181117031510/https://blog.verily.com/2018/11/update-on-our-smart-lens-program-with.html https://web.archive.org/web/20181117031510/https://blog.veri... > Our clinical work on the glucose-sensing lens demonstrated that there was insufficient consistency in our measurements of the correlation between tear glucose and blood glucose concentrations to support the requirements of a medical device. In part, this was associated with the challenges of obtaining reliable tear glucose readings in the complex on-eye environment. For example, we found that interference from biomolecules in tears resulted in challenges in obtaining accurate glucose readings from the small quantities of glucose in the tear film. In addition, our clinical studies have demonstrated challenges in achieving the steady state conditions necessary for reliable tear glucose readings.

foota 1y ago

It seems like these news articles about XYZ superscaler announce agreement to purchase power from nuclear startup come up every few months. My assumption is that there's very little needed from Google et al to sign these agreements, and the upside is very cheap power if the startup miraculously pulls it off, so they might as well.

rockemsockem 1y ago

You don't think Google is interested in getting more energy for less money?