Science & Technology

Bit Source: Appalachian ingenuity

As mining jobs were disappearing in their hometown, Rusty, Lynn, Justin, and Payton found a way to create new opportunities – by teaching coal miners how to code.

Find training and tools to help you grow your skills, career, or business at https://google.com/grow

Ep 2: Beneath the Canopy | SEARCH ON

When saving the Amazon comes down to one tribe and an old cell phone. Google’s docuseries ‘Search On’ tells the stories of people on a quest for better answers and the magic that happens at the intersection of tech and humanity. Watch the series: http://yt.be/SearchOn
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Can old cell phones and machine learning help stop deforestation? The Tembé tribe from the central Amazon hopes so. In collaboration with Rainforest Connection, an environmental nonprofit, the Tembé are using old cell phones hidden in trees and TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning tool, to listen for sounds of illegal logging.

Director: Gandja Monteiro
Cinematographer: Pierre de Kerchove
Editors: Daniel Weber & Bruno Tore
Producers: Marcello Maximo, Raphael Bottino, Jon Campbell
Production company: Prodigo Films
Google Brand Studio
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Go deeper into this episode of Search On and learn more about the Tembé at http://g.co/rainforest and Rainforest Connection at https://rfcx.org/

A special thanks to the Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública | FUNAI – Fundação Nacional do Índio.
ISA – INSTITUTO SÓCIO AMBIENTAL.

Shantell Martin: See the world as your canvas with AR

For the last few months, we’ve been tinkering with experiments that show what’s possible with augmented reality. Now, we’re inviting more people to play with this technology through Just a Line, an app that lets you make simple drawings in AR. We worked artist Shantell Martin to see what she’d make with #justaline. To download the app, visit https://goo.gl/4fgom4

To learn more about this project, visit https://g.co/justaline

To see more of Shantell Martin’s work, visit https://www.youtube.com/shantellmartin

Introducing the Google News Initiative

The Google News initiative is our company-wide effort to help journalism thrive in a digital age. It brings together everything we do across products, partnerships and program to build a better future for news. Our goals with the GNI are threefold:

1. To evolve new business models to support quality journalism
2. To strengthen and elevate quality journalism
3. To empower news organizations to leverage technology for innovation in newsrooms

#GoogleNewsInitiative

Partner Marketing Hub | Co-marketing made simple

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