Island Google says it is receiving Justice Department requests for records on antitrust matters and that it expects to get similar requests from state attorneys general it is the latest in the stepped up scrutiny of the tech industry as N.P.R. s Alina cellular reports Google says it has received a civil investigative demand from the Department of Justice and expects to receive similar demands from state attorneys general in a securities filing the tech company says the government is asking for information and documents related to prior antitrust reviews in the U.S. And overseas in a blog post a Google executive says the company has answered many questions on these issues and so quote This is not new for us however this is a confirmation by Google that it is in the crosshairs of us antitrust investigators the Justice Department launched a wide ranging review of the tech industry in July though did not name the specific companies Alina so you can N.P.R. News on Wall Street stocks closed
She says that scene in particular shows how naive we could be about our digital assistants the real interesting piece that doesn t really get addressed is that of course we ve invited all kinds of companies into our lives to do that very thing it s just that at the moment we re mostly dealing in text and human ish sounding voices but that s going to be changing pretty soon what are the technical obstacles that exist to us having the world of her there are some technical hurdles to overcome just in listening and understanding us that being said there s a ton of work that s already been done that clearly shows that we re closer to this future than we may realize So there s a field called behavioral biometrics that s in the process of being born and this is where the spoken interfaces aren t just recognizing who we are like it s Amy and she s using her computer but how and what we are in any given moment so for example if we re talking a lot faster than normal or a little slower than nor
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