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Startup Matroid Uses AI to Pluck Images From Streams of Video

April 4, 2017April 3, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: MSN/Bloomberg News, 3/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Reza Zadeh, a professor at Stanford University, has begun an artificial intelligence (AI) startup called Matroid whose software can detect specific people or objects in…

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Private Medical Data Is For Sale – and It’s Driving a Business Worth Billions

February 3, 2017February 2, 2017 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Guardian, 1/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Private medical data is a multi-million dollar industry that is growing rapidly, according to Adam Tanner at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. When medical…

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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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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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Protecting Privacy in Genomic Databases

August 12, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/9/2016 Summary: Researchers at MIT and Indiana Univerity are developing differential privacy techniques that add a small amount of random noise to queries on large genetic databases. This means databases can be…

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