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Meet Dr. A.I.: Can an App Diagnose Your Health Issues?
“The results may seem similar to what you’d get if you’d searched WebMD, Mayo Clinic, etc. The difference is that Dr. A.I. pulls in many more data points than those sites do, then combines artificial intelligence with a massive database to pinpoint the most likely results in your specific case. It doesn’t just find all possible ailments and list them for you to explore further on your own.”
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JetBlue is the latest to use facial recognition technology in airports
“However, there is some concern about how accurate these new procedures will be. Apparently the facial recognition technology doesn’t recognize all people will the same accuracy. White women and black people aren’t as easily recognized as white men, meaning there could be some mismatching of identities. Some are also concerned that this is crossing the line in terms of passenger privacy.”
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“But, in fact, civic tech is a real thing, featuring real people, with real technical expertise, trying to hack around every democratic deficiency. They are trying to tackle everything from a sheer lack of easily accessible information to the shortcomings of the first-past-the-post system. “
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Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for? | Technology | The Guardian
“So, yes: the internet of things presents many new possibilities, and it would be foolish to dismiss those possibilities out of hand. But we would also be wise to approach the entire domain with scepticism, and in particular to resist the attempts of companies to gather ever more data about our lives – no matter how much ease, convenience and self-mastery we are told they are offering us.”
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On Facebook, even Harvard students can’t be too paranoid | Tim Dowling | Opinion | The Guardian
“The other day I noticed that the little green light next to the camera built into my computer screen was on. It’s perfectly possible that I had recently used some app that required the camera, and forgotten about it; but I couldn’t find a way to turn it off. It’s unlikely anyone was really watching me pretend to work, but my computer definitely was.”
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Japanese firms plan to launch self-driving cargo ships within decade | World news | The Guardian
“The ships would use the internet of things – connecting a range of devices over the internet – to gather data, such as weather conditions and shipping information, and plot the shortest, most efficient and safest routes.
By removing the potential for human error, the companies believe the technology could dramatically cut the number of accidents at sea.”
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Coding is not “fun,” it’s technically and ethically complex — Quartz
“Coding isn’t the only job that demands intense focus. But you’d never hear someone say that brain surgery is “fun,” or that structural engineering is “easy.” When it comes to programming, why do policymakers and technologists pretend otherwise?”
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Curious AI learns by exploring game worlds and making mistakes | New Scientist
“This type of approach can speed up learning times and improve the efficiency of algorithms, says Max Jaderberg at Google’s AI company DeepMind. The company used a similar technique last year to teach an AI to explore a virtual maze. Its algorithm learned much more quickly than conventional reinforcement learning approaches. “Our agent is far quicker and requires a lot less experience from the world to train, making it much more data efficient,” he says.”
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“The Observer has obtained a series of Conservative party attack ads sent to voters last week in the key marginal constituency of Delyn, north Wales. Activists captured the ads using dummy Facebook accounts after finding that their own ad – encouraging young people to register to vote – were being “drowned out” by the Tory ads”
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Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
“There’s a certain irony that, in fields outside of computer science, plagiarism is a sign that you didn’t understand the question. Within computer science, the opposite is true. Not only have you found an acceptable solution, you’ve understood it enough to use it within the parameters of your own project.”
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“Instead, the new work shows our brains rely on the kind of maths that an algorithm might use to perform the task. In fact, Tsao and her colleague, Steven Le Chang, stumbled on their discovery while working on computer vision. The pair had initially set themselves the challenge of coming up with a way of reliably converting facial images into a numerical representation.”
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Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence | News | The Guardian
“Yet these blueprints may also alarm free speech advocates concerned about Facebook’s de facto role as the world’s largest censor. Both sides are likely to demand greater transparency.”
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Google’s AlphaGo AI beats the world’s best human Go player | TechCrunch
“Google’s AlphaGo AI Go player has defeated Ke Jie, Go world champion, in the opening match of a three game series that will include matches with Jie on Thursday and Saturday. The win was by a narrow margin, but AlphaGo has been programmed to ensure victory, not to run up the score or devastate its opponent, so the margin by which it wins isn’t necessarily a good indicator of how easy or hard it was for the computer player to win”
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The coded gaze: biased and understudied facial recognition technology / Boing Boing
” “Why isn’t my face being detected? We have to look at how we give machines sight,” she said in a TED Talk late last year. “Computer vision uses machine-learning techniques to do facial recognition. You create a training set with examples of faces. However, if the training sets aren’t really that diverse, any face that deviates too much from the established norm will be harder to detect.””
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Apply Magic Sauce – Prediction API – Demo
“This tool predicts your psycho-demographic profile from digital footprints of your behaviour. It reveals how you might be perceived by others online and provides detailed insights on your personality, intelligence, life satisfaction and more.” YIKES
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The Biggest Data Breaches of 2017 (So Far…)
“This week, Atlassian’s . This follows the trend of more and more high-profile hacks that are waking consumers up – like , , and the that rocked the country when 40 million debit and credit card numbers stolen during the holiday shopping time that year. (See of all the hacks from 2004 – present.)”
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The virulent ransomware worm has been stopped (for now) by a hidden killswitch / Boing Boing
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The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked | Technology | The Guardian
“My entry point into this story began, as so many things do, with a late-night Google. Last December, I took an unsettling tumble into a wormhole of Google autocomplete suggestions that ended with “did the holocaust happen”. And an entire page of results that claimed it didn’t.”
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Wcry ransomware is reborn without its killswitch, starts spreading anew / Boing Boing
” respite was thanks to a sloppy bit of programming from the worm’s creator, who’d left a killswitch in the code: newly infected systems checked to see if a certain domain (iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com) existed before attempting to spread the infection; by registering this domain, security researchers were able to freeze the worm.The respite was thanks to a sloppy bit of programming from the worm’s creator, who’d left a killswitch in the code: newly infected systems checked to see if a certain domain (iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com) existed before attempting to spread the infection; by registering this domain, security researchers were able to freeze the worm.
But a day later, it’s back, and this time, without the killswitch. Security researchers running honeypots have seen new infections by versions of the worm that can spread even when the iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com domain is live.”
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Creators of MP3 bring it to an end
“Two decades on, the institute has decided to terminate the licensing programme for some MP3-related patents which effectively halts industry support.
Although users can still listen to their MP3 files, inventors of new technologies will probably not include the file format in their blueprints as they turn to more advanced alternatives.”
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Google’s AI Chief On Teaching Computers To Learn–And The Challenges Ahead
““We’d have to show them 100,000 penny-farthings and tell them it’s a bike,” Giannandrea says. Then–looking on the bright side–he adds that “once they’d seen 100,000, they’d probably be better at identifying them than humans are.””
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Human-robot interactions take step forward with ’emotional’ chatbot | Technology | The Guardian
“In the future, the team predict the software could also learn the appropriate emotion to express at a given time. “It could be mostly empathic,” said Huang, adding that a challenge would be to avoid the chatbot reinforcing negative feelings such as rage.”
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NHS services in England and Scotland hit by global cyber-attack | Society | The Guardian
“Computer security experts suggested that the crisis could reflect weaknesses in the NHS’s cybersecurity. Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University, said the attack appeared to exploit a weakness in Microsoft’s software that was fixed by a “critical” software patch earlier this year but which may not have been installed across NHS computers.”
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“It is time now for two things: for people to wake up and realise how much our lives are dominated by such a small number of Silicon Valley bros, one hand in their jean pocket announcing their next move, and for tech companies to acknowledge their power and influence and become truly accountable.”
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Improbable sums? Cambridge graduates’ tech firm raises $500m | Business | The Guardian
“Improbable’s technology SpatialOS, which enables the creation of massive simulations – “virtual worlds” – is still in beta mode and has not been publicly launched. “
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Hacker Steals Millions of User Account Details from Education Platform Edmodo – Motherboard
“A hacker has stolen millions of user account details from popular education platform Edmodo, and the data is apparently for sale on the so-called dark web.
Teachers, students and parents use Edmodo to work on lesson plans, assign homework, and more. The organization claims to have over 78 million members.”
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I’m an ex-Facebook exec: don’t believe what they tell you about ads | Technology | The Guardian
“The ethics of Facebook’s micro-targeted advertising was thrust into the spotlight this week by a report out of Australia. The article, based on a leaked presentation, said that Facebook was able to identify teenagers at their most vulnerable, including when they feel “insecure”, “worthless”, “defeated” and “stressed”.”
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“Now, in a new report published yesterday by researchers from the Bangalore-based think-tank the Centre for Internet and Society, Amber Sinha and Srinivas Kodali comprehensively document the many ways in which Aadhaar is leaking, tracking the #aadhaarleaks hashtag, which has revealed potentially compromising information on more than 130,000,000 people, largely material that is intentionally available through official portals.”
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A massive Google Docs hack is spreading like wildfire – Recode
“Gmail users are under attack in a gigantic phishing operation that’s spreading like wildfire across the internet right now.
People took to Twitter to report receiving an email that looks like an invitation to join a Google Doc from someone they know.
But when you click on the link to open the file, you are directed to grant access to an app that looks like Google Docs but is actually a program that sends spam emails to everyone you’ve emailed, according to a detailed outline of the attack on Reddit. “
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GE2017: how are political parties targeting you on Facebook? | Politics | The Guardian
“We now know targeted Facebook advertising played a big role in 2015’s general election.
The Conservatives spent £1.2m on Facebook advertising in 2015 – and it paid off with a majority, albeit a small one. It is understood both them and Labour plan on spending similar amounts on Facebook advertising. “
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What if we’re living in a computer simulation? | Technology | The Guardian
“If we assume that these developments continue, and with them our interest in creating simulations of the world, then at some point in the future – 1,000 years, 100,000 years – it’s reasonable to assume that the difference between reality and simulation will become indistinguishable. At which point it will mean we will have created simulated beings with their own consciousness.
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But if that is the inevitable outcome of continued technological advancement, unless nuclear war or some other catastrophe intervenes, then it’s quite possible – some would say an overwhelming certainty – that it’s already happened, and we are the ancestor simulations created by an advanced post-human civilisation.”
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Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities | WIRED
“My personal coding projects have presented similarly thorny ethical questions. Should I write a computer program that will download the communications of thousands of teenagers suffering from eating disorders posted on an anorexia advice website? Write a program to post anonymous, suicidal messages on hundreds of college forums to see which colleges offer the most support? My answer to these questions, incidentally, was “no”. But I considered it. And the glory and peril of computers is that they magnify the impact of your whims: an impulse becomes a program that can hurt thousands of people.”
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In China, Daydreaming Students Are Caught on Camera – The New York Times
“School officials see the cameras as a way to improve student confidence and crowdsource the task of catching misbehaving pupils. Parents use the feeds to monitor their children’s academic progress and spy on their friendships and romances. But many students see live-streaming as an intrusion, prompting a broader debate in China about privacy, educational ethics and the perils of helicopter parenting.”
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Google Chrome: Phishing Scam ‘Practically Impossible to Spot’ | Fortune.com
“Indeed, this scam is far subtler. It works like this: fraudsters are able to register domains with characters plucked from various alphabets other than the default Latin script. When displayed, it’s all but impossible to tell apart a Greek “O” from a Cyrillic “O” from a Latin “O,” for instance.”
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Robotic parcel sorting facility in China / Boing Boing
“Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.
Orange robots at the company’s sorting stations are able to identify the destination of a package through a code-scan, virtually eliminating sorting mistakes.
Shentong’s army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages a day, and are self-charging, meaning they are operational 24/7.”
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