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Want to Avoid Vendor Lock-In? Software-Defined Storage Could Be the Answer

November 29, 2016December 13, 2016 by Nnamdi Onwumere
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Published By: Computing, 11/28/2016 >> View the Article << Summary At a Computing IT Leaders Forum, panelists discussed the potential of software-defined storage (SDS) to help companies avoid vendor lock-in and allow more flexibility in planning…
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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces

November 29, 2016December 13, 2016 by Anna Clark
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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Jiao Tong University in China have applied facial recognition algorithms to guess whether a person has a criminal history based upon their…
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How Worried Should We Be About Election Hacking?

November 3, 2016November 10, 2016 by Michael Morguarge
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Published By: The Verge, 10/28/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The Verge discusses the possibility of election machine hacking, along with other factors that could affect vote tallying and the results of an election. Extended…
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Large DDoS Attacks Cause Outages at Twitter, Spotify, and Other Sites

October 26, 2016November 11, 2016 by John Daniell
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Published By: TechCrunch, 10/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary A recent large scale DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on DNS provider Dyn caused many sites to become temporarily inaccessible, including Twitter, Spotify, and a…
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Social Media Companies Rescind Access to Geofeedia

October 25, 2016November 9, 2016 by Anna Clark
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Published By: The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have revoked commercial access to their data by social-media analysis company Geofeedia, which had been providing information obtained on their…
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Big Data Help CIA Predict Social Unrest 5 Days Before It Begins

October 10, 2016October 13, 2016 by mmaginniss
mmaginniss
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Published By: Tech Times, 10/7/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The CIA and their new Directorate of Digital Innovation are working on "anticipatory intelligence" to predict future events. The Deputy Director says that they can…
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Google Open-Sources Show and Tell, a Model for Producing Image Captions

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 by Anna Clark
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Published By: Venture Beat, 9/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary With the help of crowdsourced data, Google AI's image recognition algorithms are achieving greater accuracy. Objects in photographs are now more accurately described, and are…
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Google Weakens Allo Privacy Promises

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 by mmaginniss
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Published By: Naked Security, 9/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Google's new messaging app, Allo, has been criticized because the default settings provide substantially less privacy than Google had previously announced they would. In part, this…
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The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit

September 7, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd
Julia Bernd
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Published By: Wired, 9/1/2016 Summary: The Brave web browser (released earlier this year) allows only ads that don't track users from site to site; it has now added a feature to record how much time users…
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As FBI Warns Election Sites Got Hacked, All Eyes Are on Russia

September 2, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd
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Published By: Wired, 8/29/2016 Summary: Hackers have broken into the Illinois and Arizona state boards of elections' records, following hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign in the last couple of months. This…
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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos

August 31, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd
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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 8/19/2016 Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that achieves 70% recall in identifying depressed individuals by characteristics of their (pre-diagnosis) Instagram photo posts. This is a great example of a…
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Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump

August 26, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd
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Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…
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1 Creativity 2 Abstraction 3 Data & Info 4 Algorithms 6 The Internet 7.1.1 Interaction and cognition 7.1.1C Social media 7.1.1E Access to info 7.1.1F Public data 7.1.1H Social sharing 7.1.1I GPS 7.1.1J Sensors 7.1.1L Assistive tech 7.1.1M Web collaboration 7.1.1N Breadth of change 7.1.1O Productivity 7.1.2 Scaling problem-solving 7.1.2C Human computation 7.1.2D Enhanced capabilities 7.1.2E Combined effort 7.1.2F Crowdsourcing 7.1.2G Mobile scaling 7.2.1 Impact in other fields 7.2.1A Data impact 7.2.1B Scientific computing 7.2.1C Sharing info 7.2.1E Scientific DBs 7.2.1F Moore’s law 7.2.1G Enabling creativity 7.3.1 Benefits and harm 7.3.1A Law and ethics 7.3.1E Censorship 7.3.1G Privacy 7.3.1H Data aggregation 7.3.1J Data collection 7.3.1K Search tracking 7.3.1L Privacy exploits 7.3.1Q Open source 7.4.1 Real-world contexts 7.4.1A Varied access 7.4.1C Equity and power 7.4.1D Digital divide 7.4.1E Funding 7.5.2 Evaluate sources 7.5.2A Credibility
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