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Mind Control Isn’t Sci-Fi Anymore | WIRED
“He sits down at a computer keyboard, fires up his monitor, and begins typing. After a few lines of text, he pushes the keyboard away, exposing the white surface of a conference table in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of his startup. He resumes typing. Only this time he is typing on…nothing. Just the flat tabletop. Yet the result is the same: The words he taps out appear on the monitor.”
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Harvard Study Proves Apple Slows Down old iPhones to Sell Millions of New Models – Anonymous
“People have made the anecdotal observation that their Apple products become much slower right before the release of a new model.
Now, a Harvard University study has done what any person with Google Trends could do, and pointed out that Google searches for “iPhone slow” spiked multiple times, just before the release of a new iPhone each time.”
- – By dr tech
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Noriko Arai: Can a robot pass a university entrance exam? | TED Talk | TED.com
“How can we help kids excel at the things that humans will always do better than AI?” Great talk – she also presented at recent IB conference in Yokohama.
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The Age of the Algorithm – 99% Invisible
“But the answer to how he was chosen is actually an algorithm, a computer program that crunched through reams of data, looking at how much each passenger had paid for their ticket, what time they checked in, how often they flew on United, and whether they were part of a rewards program. The algorithm likely determined that Dr. Dao was one of the least valuable customers on the flight at the time.”
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Teachers have 10 years before robots take over: university vice-chancellor
“Robots will begin replacing teachers in the classroom within the next 10 years as part of a revolution in one-to-one learning, a leading educationist has predicted.
Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, said intelligent machines that adapt to suit the learning styles of individual children would soon render traditional academic teaching all but redundant.”
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India’s biometric database is a massive achievement and a dystopian nightmare – VICE News
““What is emerging is that [Aadhaar] is being used to create a panopticon, a centralized database that’s linked to every aspect of our lives — finances, travel, birth, deaths, marriage, education, employment, health, etc.,” Reetika Khera, an Indian economist and social scientist, told VICE News.
Security concerns have plagued the system for years, but in recent weeks criticism has grown deafeningly loud. Earlier this month, as part of the Supreme Court case on privacy, an activist’s freedom of information request suggested that foreign firms were being given “full access” to the classified data — including fingerprints and iris scans.”
- – By dr tech
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What Is Quantum Internet? | WIRED
“In quantum cryptography, a sender uses a cryptographic key encoded in a quantum signal to encrypt a message. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, if someone tried to intercept the key, they would destroy it.”
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Algorithms outdo us. But we still prefer human fallibility | Rafael Behr | Opinion | The Guardian
“Luddism refuses to die because each innovation creates a pool of people who feel economically or culturally dispossessed. The greater the leap forward, the wider the chasm of obsolescence. And the scale of the digital revolution defies hyperbole. No area of human activity is undisrupted. “
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Company’s dystopian promotional video for drone armed with machine gun / Boing Boing
“brings a fully robotic weaponry system to an airborne platform. TIKAD, “
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Google researchers reveal automated process for removing watermarks from stock images / Boing Boing
“Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition shows that these watermarks can be reliably detected and undetectably erased by software.”
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Google’s New Algorithm Makes Your Photos Perfect—Before You Take Them | WIRED
“Researchers from MIT and Google recently showed off a machine learning algorithm capable of automatically retouching photos just like a professional photographer. Snap a photo and the neural network identifies exactly how to make it look better—increase contrast a smidge, tone down brightness, whatever—and apply the changes in less than 20 milliseconds.”
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The world’s most automated country moves toward setting a ‘robot tax’
“A new proposal could see the country reduce the amount of tax benefits for companies that invest in automated machinery.”
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Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
” The observations made at Facebook are the latest in a long line of similar cases. In each instance, an AI being monitored by humans has diverged from its training in English to develop its own language. The resulting phrases appear to be nonsensical gibberish to humans but contain semantic meaning when interpreted by AI “agents.” “
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Hackers breach dozens of voting machines brought to conference | TheHill
“The conference acquired 30 machines for hackers to toy with. Every voting machine in the village was hacked.
Though voting machines are technologically simple, they are difficult for researchers to obtain for independent research.”
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The World’s First Autonomous Ship Will Set Sail In 2018
“The ship will be equipped with a GPS and various types of sensors, including lidar, radar, and cameras—much like self-driving cars. The ship will be able to steer itself through the sea, avoid other ships, and independently dock itself.”
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Google says AI better than humans at scrubbing extremist YouTube content | Technology | The Guardian
“Google has pledged to continue developing advanced programs using machine learning to combat the rise of extremist content, after it found that it was both faster and more accurate than humans in scrubbing illicit content from YouTube.”
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Chinese chatbots are revolting against the Communist Party
“The chatbots — BabyQ and the Microsoft-created XiaoBing — were yanked from Chinese messaging app QQ, according to the Financial Times, after they started providing answers that weren’t satisfactory to the glorious party.
According to FT, BabyQ would answer the question, “Do you love the Communist Party?” with “No.” XiaoBing’s transgressions were a bit more direct, declaring for some users “My China dream is to go to America” and answering other patriotic questions with “I’m having my period, wanna take a rest.””
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Briton who stopped WannaCry attack arrested over separate malware claims | Technology | The Guardian
“Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British security researcher who was credited with stopping the WannaCry outbreak in its tracks by discovering a hidden “kill switch” for the malware, has been arrested by the FBI over his alleged involvement in another malicious software targeting bank accounts.”
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“This RFID-enabled device allowed its proud new owners to do things such as log into their computer, open doors and purchase food in the office cafeteria with a flick of the wrist. Nearly half of the company’s 85 workers had the device implanted when the firm held a “chip party”.
YIKES!- – By dr tech
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Wisconsin Company To Implant Microchips In Employees | KSTP.com
“Each chip costs $300 and the company is picking up the tab. They’re implanted between a person’s thumb and forefinger. Westby added the data is both encrypted and secure.
“There’s no GPS tracking at all,” he said.
No one who works at Three Square Market is required to get the chip implant.”
HOW scary is this!
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Computer Science Cheating Scandals Infect Prestigious Colleges
“It’s also important to note that codes are intentionally accessible online. Looking up codes is a typical for programmers, and isn’t considered foul play. However, there’s a difference between using a publicly available code as assistance in solving a problem and using it as the solution to a problem.”
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Philippine president admits he used an army of social media trolls while campaigning
“It found that social media bots were used by many countries to drum up ideas aligning with party messaging, by inflating social media engagement, “creating an artificial sense of popularity, momentum or relevance.”
An army of 500 to “amplify” ideas
In Duterte’s case, his social media manager has said they’ve used some 400 to 500 people to “amplify” ideas. They individually handled groups on platforms like Facebook, that each had hundreds to hundreds of thousands of followers.”
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Roombas Are Measuring Homes In The Hopes Of Selling The Data To Other Companies | GOOD Money
“The mapping information could ostensibly tell third-parties when the owners are most often home, the shape of rooms, the size of houses, and even the frequency of cleanings. Gizmodo imagines that a room’s shape could be valuable to Amazon as information on the acoustics of a room containing an Alexa device, informing both volume and directional settings so that its broadcasting and microphone can work properly. “
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The future of fake news: don’t believe everything you read, see or hear | Technology | The Guardian
“However, there’s a new breed of video and audio manipulation tools, made possible by advances in artificial intelligence and computer graphics, that will allow for the creation of realistic looking footage of public figures appearing to say, well, anything. Trump declaring his proclivity for water sports. Hillary Clinton describing the stolen children she keeps locked in her wine cellar. Tom Cruise finally admitting what we suspected all along … that he’s a Brony.”
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“Each 30-pound robot is equipped with sensors to help it navigate the store’s layout and avoid bumping into customers’ carts. When it detects product areas that aren’t fully stocked, the data is shared with store management staff so the retailer can make changes, said Dave Steck, Schnuck Markets’ vice president of IT and infrastructure.”
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disney research tracks your emotions while watching movies
“the facial recognition system was tested by disney research using infrared hi-def cameras that capture people’s faces while watching movies like ‘big hero 6’, ‘the jungle book’ and ‘star wars: the force awakens’. the results showcased 16 million facial landmarks from 3,179 viewers demonstrating a ‘very strong predictive performance’. to do so, the AI software takes the faces of people and understands how many of them are laughing, how wide are their eyes, and the different expressions they make.”
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Cheers launches first unmanned, cashless store in Singapore – Channel NewsAsia
“The store will also utilise data and video analytics to analyse purchasing behaviour and customise its inventory. An auto-ordering system eliminates the need to manually track and order stocks.”
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Techniques for reliably fooling AI machine-vision classifiers / Boing Boing
“The Open AI researchers were intrigued by a claim that self-driving cars would be intrinsically hard to fool (tricking them into sudden braking maneuvers, say), because “they capture images from multiple scales, angles, perspectives, and the like.””
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