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Google denies working on touchscreen tech for Chinese fighter jets
Google denied that it helped China's military build a new touchscreen tool for its J-20 fighter jets.
The tech giant said that it had no role in the military aspect of touchscreen research that could potentially give an advantage to Chinese fighter jets in both air-to-air and air-to-ground combat, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.
A research paper seen by the Morning Post suggested that a lead scientist from Google actively participated in Beijing's program on the new touchscreen tools. Shumin Zai, a member of Google's A.I. team, worked on a research paper that could be used for touchscreen applications ranging from military uses to education and medicine.
"This paper addresses a very general research question in user experience design of how people interact with moving items on a touchscreen," a Google spokesperson told the Morning Post on Thursday. "This paper is simply not about military applications."
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:03PM (5 children)
Let Google, Apple and Microsoft design their war machine's UI.
This will require endless meetings of managers and self proclaimed by not formally trained "designers".
They must form a study grope to find the right color
palatepalletpalette.Should they use Google's Material Design "language" ?
What about skeuomorphic icons?
What about the right font? The font is very important in subtly conveying the right emotional message.
All kinds of "ar-teeest's" will need to be involved in the design.
Then managers can override their decisions and send them back to having more meetings.
The requirements can be ever changing to keep up with the current fashion trends in the latest UI design.
Do you use a checkbox, or two option buttons? (What punishment is given to those who still call them "radio buttons"?)
So many important mission critical decisions to be made!
Should we also involve the people responsible for Gnome 3 and KDE 4 ?
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:12PM (2 children)
Let Poettering design their UI.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:29PM (1 child)
I just want to stop the Chinese from being a threat to the US. I didn't want to destroy their entire civilization.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @02:51PM
early-stage capitalist china and russia are a threat to us imperialism and global hegemony
n-day is still on schedule
unless
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Thursday July 11 2019, @03:56PM (1 child)
Don’t forget the I Feel Lucky button.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:51PM
That button would be pressed in response to the other party pressing the Make My Day button.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.