Big tech surveillance could damage democracy
Data is often called the oil of the 21st century.
Internet
Jun 4, 2019
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Crest Whitestrips and the myth of big company innovation
Paul Sagel seems to have violated all the presumed rules about innovation at big companies. With a swipe of gel and a strip of plastic, the Procter & Gamble research fellow created a $250 million annual line of business for ...
Economics & Business
Jun 4, 2019
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Training data for autonomous driving
Autonomous cars must perceive their environment true to reality. The corresponding algorithms are trained using a large number of image and video recordings. For the algorithm to recognize single image elements, such as a ...
Automotive
Apr 18, 2019
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Democrats want feds to target the 'black box' of AI bias
Congress is starting to show interest in prying open the "black box" of tech companies' artificial intelligence with oversight that parallels how the federal government checks under car hoods and audits banks.
Machine learning & AI
Apr 10, 2019
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Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto
The second cancer victim in a year to win a surprise victory against US pesticide maker Monsanto raises the prospect of a flood of similar lawsuits, potentially leaving the firm's new German owner Bayer with a major case ...
Business
Mar 20, 2019
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Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers
You may have noticed it in the boilerplate of your customer contract with a bank, a brokerage firm, or just a cellular phone carrier.
Economics & Business
Mar 13, 2019
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Tech companies scope out Africa surveillance sector
At a security exhibition in Morocco tech companies pushed to convince African officials that their state-of-the-art surveillance tools are the key to stability and development.
Business
Feb 24, 2019
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Three ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to
Anyone who's watched "Bridget Jones's Diary" knows one of her New Year's resolutions is "Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music."
Other
Jan 29, 2019
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How governments use Big Data to violate human rights
The right to privacy has become a pressing human rights issue. And rightly so. Big data —combined with artificial intelligence and facial recognition software —has the capacity to intrude on people's lives in unprecedented ...
Political science
Jan 14, 2019
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US Congress to see push to regulate Big Tech in 2019
The newly installed US Congress is expected to see a fresh effort to develop new regulations for big technology firms, with a focus on tougher enforcement of privacy and data protection.
Business
Jan 6, 2019
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