How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability
Data ethics is now a cause célèbre.
Internet
Mar 28, 2019
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News tagged with digital information
With a 'hello,' researchers demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
Researchers from the University of Washington and Microsoft have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA—a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and ...
Biotechnology
Mar 21, 2019
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Blockchain could democratise banking, music – but at what cost?
Few technologies have the potential to disrupt old institutions as much as blockchain – a system that maintains records on huge networks of individual computers. As with any new technology, it could be used for social good ...
Internet
Mar 13, 2019
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Facebook needs regulation – here's why it should be done by algorithms
Facebook has been likened to a "digital gangster" by a critical parliamentary report into disinformation and fake news. One witness in the 18-month inquiry into the way digital platforms have transformed the flow of information ...
Internet
Feb 20, 2019
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Why forgetting at work can be a good thing
The amount of information and data which workers are confronted with every day has increased enormously over the past few years. Globalisation and digitalisation have led to a steady increase in the complexity of work and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 08, 2019
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The legal implications of digital privacy
A June 2018 decision rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States established an interesting principle on digital privacy in a case related to a criminal proceeding.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 15, 2019
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Digitally enhanced: Estonia plots the end of bureaucracy
In the Estonian capital of Tallinn, three-day-old Oskar Lunde sleeps soundly in his hospital cot, snuggled into a lime green blanket decorated with red butterflies. Across the room, his father turns on a laptop.
Internet
Dec 26, 2018
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Engineers invent groundbreaking spin-based memory device
A team of international researchers led by engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have invented a new magnetic device to manipulate digital information 20 times more efficiently and with 10 times more stability ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 07, 2018
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Student engineers an interaction between two qubits using photons
In the world of quantum computing, interaction is everything.
Quantum Physics
Dec 06, 2018
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Digital offense: Anonymity dulls our moral outrage
From online forums to community groups, research and experience shows people are more willing to insult and use menacing language online than in person, especially when there's the protection of anonymity behind a computer. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 19, 2018
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