Google's Global Infrastructure

Google have spent $30 billion improving their infrastructure over three years and investment is ongoing. Three new submarine cables are in process and five new regions have been added.

Netherlands and Montreal regions in the first quarter of 2018
Los Angeles, Finland, and Hong Kong – with more to come.

In 2019 they will commission three subsea cables:

• Curie, a private cable connecting Chile to Los Angeles; 
• Havfrue, a consortium cable connecting the U.S. to Denmark and Ireland; 
• the Hong Kong-Guam Cable system (HK-G), a consortium cable interconnecting major subsea communication hubs in Asia.  

See the full article here
https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/expanding-our-global-infrastructure-new-regions-and-subsea-cables/

In 2017 the world searched for...

https://trends.google.com/trends/yis/2017/GLOBAL/
See the Top searches across a wide range of subjects.

Voice Experiments.. hello hello

Voice Experiments is a showcase of what’s possible when you bring open-ended, natural conversation into games, music, storytelling, and more. ..here is Voice Experiments: Story Speaker 


.See all the experiments here:-
https://experiments.withgoogle.com/voice

or check out MixLab


Read about The Conversational UI and Why it Matters (pdf)
https://developers.google.com/actions/downloads/get-started.pdf


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Memeonics Political Intelligence

Politics in Ireland is a daily topic on conversation on many parts of the island. As a nation we are reasonably well engaged with our political representatives, particularly in the north. Voter turnout in the 6 counties is often in the order of 70%+.

At Memeonics we have produced statistical and technical analyses for private clients for many years and our 'Political Intelligence' is a daily compendium of output from all government departments on the island of Ireland.

Read more

https://memeonics.net/#/