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The Observer view on how Facebook’s destructive ethos imperils democracy
Facebook likes to present itself as a tech company, but often appears more like an advertising corporation that happens to use digital technology in order to conduct its core business. Read full Article
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Take This App and Call Me in the Morning
Health tech companies are making a big push to digitize medicine, introducing novel tools like digital pills that track when patients take their drugs and smart spoons that can automatically adjust to hand tremors. Read full Article
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YouTube, the Great Radicalizer
At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. I was writing an article about his appeal to his voter base and wanted to confirm a few quotations. Soon I noticed something peculiar. Read full Article
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Europe’s Planned Digital Tax Heightens Tensions With U.S.
WASHINGTON — A global attempt to prevent large, multinational companies from shifting their profits to lower-tax jurisdictions is setting off a fight between the United States and Europe, as policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic spar over efforts to impose new taxes on foreign firms. Read full Article
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This professor is suing Cambridge Analytica to find out how they profiled him
An American professor’s legal claim against Cambridge Analytica to find out just how they build their profiles of voters has been given new importance by the revelations that the data analytics firm harvested private information from millions of Facebook users without their permission. Read full Article
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Microsoft reorganizes to concentrate on AI and the cloud
However, overall Windows will be split into two teams. One team will be headed by Scott Guthrie who will be in charge of what is called the platform team. The AI platform work will also be part of this team’s work. Read full Article
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Facebook Isn’t Just Violating Our Privacy
Even as it issues full-page apologies in print newspapers promising ritualistically “to do better,” Facebook and its allies have minimized the importance of the seismic revelation that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on behalf of the Trump campaign in 2016, had ga Read full Article
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Computer science faces an ethics crisis. The Cambridge Analytica scandal proves it.
Cambridge Analytica built a weapon. They did so understanding what uses its buyers had for it, and it worked exactly as intended. To help clients manipulate voters, the company built psychological profiles from data that it surreptitiously harvested from the accounts of 50 million Facebook users. Read full Article
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We think with our whole body, not just brain; and that is the missing link in Artificial Intelligence -Body.
Worth reading article by Ben Medlock who built communication machine for physicist Stephen Hawkins. He argues that our thinking process involves not just brain, but all our body cells that have evolved over centuries. The AI is missing this crucial component-thinking body cells.f sheikh Read full Article
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Bucerius Lab Symposium fragt: Schafft der Mensch den Menschen ab?
Das Bucerius Lab der ZEIT-Stiftung veranstaltet am 13. und 14. April 2018 gemeinsam mit Wissenschaft im Dialog und dem Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg ein Symposium zu den Folgen der Digitalisierung für die Arbeitswelt. Anlass ist das Wissenschaftsjahr „Arbeitswelten der Zukunft“. Read full Article
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Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
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Delete Facebook? That’s as hard as giving up sugar
Plenty of people say they’re going to do it, but in the end can’t. Read full Article
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Cambridge Analytica and a Moral Reckoning in Silicon Valley
When it comes to the phenomenon of Donald Trump, you have to give him this: sanctimony is not foremost among his sins. He provokes no moral disappointment, because he creates no moral expectations. Read full Article
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Embracing the robot
There is a heartbreaking scene in the middle of Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The hero of the movie, a replicant called K, lives a drab existence in a dystopian, future Los Angeles. The one bright spot in his life is his patient and sympathetic partner, Joi. Read full Article
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Embracing the robot
There is a heartbreaking scene in the middle of Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The hero of the movie, a replicant called K, lives a drab existence in a dystopian, future Los Angeles. The one bright spot in his life is his patient and sympathetic partner, Joi. Read full Article
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Understanding Customers by Blending Human Insight and Machine Learning
How can companies use machine learning to efficiently understand the needs and wants of their customers, without sacrificing the insights that come from employees’ intuition and empathy? Read full Article
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Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the company’s relentless quest for growth. “We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. Read full Article
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Apple GDPR privacy protection will float everyone’s privacy boat
With less than two months before the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, Apple is making notable changes in the name of user privacy. For everyone. Read full Article
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How much would you pay for Facebook?
Some of the most useful things online are free. Facebook is free. Wikipedia is free. Google maps, Gmail, and Google search are all free. If you don’t mind some advertisements, basically all the music in the world is free via Spotify and Youtube. Yet all of these services are worth something. Read full Article
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20 common jobs in 2040
German industrial giant, Siemens, recently hosted an Innovation Day that I participated in at their Chicago design center to give thought leaders in the U.S. a first look at many of the cutting edge technologies they’re working on. Read full Article
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