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Maria Gurova

2 | Samsung Introduces A Wearable Health Tracker That Geeks and Insurance Companies Wil... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 29 May 14 - No Cached
  • The popularity of wearable health trackers, such as Fitbit, Jawbone UP, and Nike FuelBand, have created a problem
  • Hardly anyone has developed algorithms that derive actionable insights from the data that your body generates, and the dashboards are separate
  • Samsung is not planning to release a wearable health monitor to consumers, but expects other developers to build on the reference design shown today.
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  • In a study conducted with the University of Chicago involving 15 patients who had experienced heart failure, sensors and predictive analysis were able to detect early signs of heart problems
  • Though Samsung will still compete on a consumer level, the data on its platform could ramp up its business serving health care professionals.
  • "big data to small data, and small data to insights that people can understand--that are actionable,"
  • Maria Gurova on 29 May 14
     
    Samsung is trying to find a solution on how to interpret the big data collected from the health tracking wearable devices 
Oleg Batluk

Will Big Data Be Used to Create Ad Zombies or Digital Assistants? | Gary Eber... - 0 views

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CIS digital zombie Big Brother Business big data Social

shared by Oleg Batluk on 18 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • unable to separate reality (or as "real" as the online world can be, cartoon or otherwise) and the fictional world of advertising.
  • Dr. Domingos' recent article in the Wall Street Journal paints a utopian scenario where consumers are able to wrest control of the personal information stolen by big business and use it to create "digital models".
  • we really need to ask if creating millions of digital models to remove us even further from face-to-face interaction is the right thing to do.
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  • Big Brother government is replaced by Big Business.
  • the perils of aggregating vast amounts of personal data in huge centralized repositories of purportedly trusted third-parties.
Maria Gurova

What Happens When Medical Science Meets Data Science? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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Technology health human tracking big data legal privacy wearable cyber safety wellbeing

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • If data from personal biometric devices is ever going to be truly useful to researchers, big medical centers will have to pull it into electronic health records (EHRs), de-identify it, and make it public. Without the medical data found in EHRs, like CT scans, X-rays, and blood tests, researchers have little context for wearable sensor data and there is little useful information that can be gleaned from just the raw data
  • Practice Fusion, a popular EHR company, will begin opening up its API over the next year to pull in data from wearable sensors to its platform.
  • Basis, a startup that makes a health sensor-laden watch, is working on the first step: a device-agnostic platform that puts all of a person’s health sensor data into a single online repository.
Vladimir Antonov

After Investing In A Local Services Startup, Google Turns Around And Builds A Competito... - 1 views

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  • Google is working to create a new product in the home services market
  • Calif.-based technology giant is working on an offering through its ads team that will allow customers to connect with roofers and repairmen and put it in direct competition with Thumbtack and Amazon.com
  • As Buzzfeed reported, there will likely be some integration with Google Ad Words, which will likely create targeted ads for users searching for certain services that will allow them to receive direct quotes.
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  • This isn’t the first time that Google’s investing has created a possible conflict of interest. In February, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Google was developing an Uber competitor in anticipation of the launch of its self-driving cars. The search company, through its venture capital arm Google Ventures, had previously invested $258 million in the ride-sharing service in Aug. 2013, with Google chief legal officer David Drummond taking an Uber board seat
  • Google is extremely wary of the expansion of the vertically-integrated tech giants into other spaces, said sources, and it’s not staying still with Amazon announcing its entry into a local services market that some experts estimate does more than $400 billion in business every year.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 12 Feb 16
     
    Big tech companies expansion // to be added to the 'clash of giants' trend
Maria Gurova

The Movie Theater Of The Future Is All About Big Screens And Big Data - 2 views

www.ibtimes.com/t-big-screens-big-data-2347076

Theatrical Technology Economy infrastructure devices screen In-Theatre Experience big data Barco Escape IMAX premium format

shared by Maria Gurova on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • With huge-flat screen TVs becoming more affordable — and more original TV content being produced — cinemas have to step up their game to keep pace in the arms race with home theaters. That’s why theater chains are coming out with better food, reclining chairs, and more supersized screens like Imax to take full advantage of the special effects in many tentpole blockbusters.
  • The theater, which opens to the public Friday night, now has a lobby that’s part of the show (and soon, a camera-based audience data gathering tool to go with it), and a cinema equipped with the showpiece Barco Escape, which combines three screens in a U-shaped pattern that gives the viewer almost a cockpit-type perspective of the action.
  • “The Maze Runner” and its sequel, “Maze Runner: Scorch Trials,” were the first — and only — two films with scenes optimized for Barco Escape, but with dozens of Imax films coming out every year, there needs to be a much broader pipeline of content to compete with other large format
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  • Hoddick said he wants to develop three additional films this year, then eight in 2017 and then 12 a year after that
  • The Barco Escape costs exhibitors $100,000 with an additional fee per movie.
  • there are currently 21 Barco Escape theaters in the world — 16 in the United States, two each in Europe and China, and one in Mexico.
  • the plan is to have more than 100 by the end of this year, and 1,000 within three to five years. Oh, and they want an additional 1,000 just in China, soon to be the world’s biggest movie market — and one where Imax is in the process of opening hundreds of its own screens
  • Hoddick said while Barco Escape is only for 2D films at this point, he imagines it’s only a matter of time before 3D comes to the platform
  • it’s currently about 4 percent more expensive to produce a movie for Barco Escape, because the work has to happen in post-production, Hoddick said new cameras from manufacturers including Sony that can film in the 7:1 aspect ratio necessary for the medium will slash costs significantly
  • the theater will soon install a camera-based surveillance system to analyze demographics and customize which “lobby dominations” go live — think superhero trailers going up when a crew of high school kids walks in
Maria Gurova

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA? | Popular Science - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made a similar deal for the genomes of 5,000 people with lupus.
  • A trove of data could give scientists the tools they need to develop gene-specific drug therapies for certain diseases. “We are hoping to ultimately develop Parkinson’s medicines, for example, that actually modify the disease as opposed to just treating symptoms,”
  • “this has the possibility of not only helping us find new cures, but it also helps us create a genuine health care system as opposed to just a disease care system.”
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  • Even a small segment of DNA (23andMe looks at 750,000 base pairs out of 3 billion) can reveal a history of illness or predict future risks and be used
  • The 2009 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act makes it illegal for employers or health insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic data. The Act doesn’t address who controls data once it’s out there
alexbelov

Big Data Is Transforming Medicine - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • “We’re in a new world in terms of the way healthcare is going to be practiced, based upon these data-driven insights.” A future which combines both evidence-based and practice-based medicine is likely to produce the best outcomes for patients
  • alexbelov on 26 Feb 16
     
    We're in a new world in terms of the way healthcare is going to be practiced, based upon these data-driven insights. A future which combines both evidence-based and practice-based medicine is likely to produce the best outcomes for patients.
Maria Gurova

How To Get More People Into Movie Theaters (Without Higher Ticket Prices) - 3 views

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CIS Technology entertainment Theatrical Immersive Experience Market Economy

shared by Maria Gurova on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Its newest toy is called Barco Escape and right now it’s essentially three theater screens in one space — the main screen and then additional screens on the left and right walls. The effect is a 270-degree image that makes viewers feel like they are in the middle of the action.
  • It’s the kind of premium experience that most people would expect to pay extra for but Schilowitz says part of the point of Escape is to give viewers a more theme-park like experience without charging any more for a ticket.
  • One of the biggest trends right now is people watching other people play video games.
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  • Schilowitz hopes to engage brands to make 270-degree short films to show before the actual movie. Think Red Bull's Red Bull's many extreme sports videos. Now picture them in an immersive experience.  The money coming from brands could help offset the costs of the Escape screen.
  • Schilowitz believes you could take that experience into the theater. Have two people playing a virtual reality game while strapped into Oculus Rift-type devices and people would pay to watch the game on the big screen if top- ranked players were competing.
  • Escape will also be used to show things like concerts which can be better experienced with a wider screen. A Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett show will debut in Escape theaters in 2015.
  • Maria Gurova on 02 Oct 14
     
    The new technology that may transform all that real estate Theaters owns into the arcades of the future.  
Maria Gurova

Google: The new GE: Google, everywhere | The Economist - 0 views

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Google Technology big data collection internet of things robotics human tracking smart home

shared by Maria Gurova on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Its latest purchase is Nest Labs, a maker of sophisticated thermostats and smoke detectors: on January 13th Google said it would pay $3.2 billion in cash for the firm. Google’s biggest move into hardware so far is its $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility
  • With Google’s collection of hardware businesses, the common factor is data: gathering and crunching them, to make physical devices more intelligent.
  • Packed with sensors and software that can, say, detect that the house is empty and turn down the heating, Nest’s connected thermostats generate plenty of data, which the firm captures.
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  • This month Samsung announced a new smart-home computing platform that will let people control washing machines, televisions and other devices it makes from a single app. Microsoft, Apple and Amazon were also tipped to take a lead there, but Google was until now seen as something of a laggard.
  • it is likely to do what it did with driverless cars: take a technology financed by military contracts and adapt it for the consumer market.
Maria Gurova

Instagram to ramp up efforts to lure small businesses - FT.com - 1 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 08 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • When we launched ads two years ago, ads were available in just eight countries. In September, we opened for business in around 200 countries
  • Facebook’s global sales team was beginning to push Instagram’s advertising to small businesses, providing them with the ability to target marketing at particular users
  • that international expansion was a priority, with 75 per cent of its more than 400m users based outside the US
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  • it has said that its second-largest market outside its home country is Brazil, where it has about 29m users. On Monday, it announced that it has 9m users in Germany and has previously said that it has more than 14m users in the UK
  • Analysts only just started releasing their estimates last year, suggesting the app could generate between $1.2bn and $2bn in sales in 2016
  • Instagram’s monthly active user base could reach up to 520m by the end of 2016.
  • Instagram launched an advertising format that allowed marketers to include links to their products and websites. The so-called “carousel adverts” allow a brand to display several images at once and use a “learn more” button to lead consumers to its own sit
  • the company had no immediate plans to introduce a “Buy” button, similar to the one that Facebook has been trialling. Retailers want the group to introduce functions that will allow users to purchase products seen through the app
  • Instagram is attractive to advertisers partly because of its popularity with hard-to-reach teenagers.
  • A lobbying push by big technology groups, including Facebook, helped to water down the proposed ban. National governments will now be able to reduce the age at which personal data may be used to 13
  • Maria Gurova on 08 Feb 16
     
    Instagram is now focusing on leveraging more of the parent company resources to increase app's monetization through ad sales. Therefore making their ad features available on the international markets and focusing on the smaller companies and entrepreneurs 
Maria Gurova

The Future of Advertising Hinges on Understanding Identity | Adweek - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 10 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • . The future of identity lies in digitizing the physical world, and the context in which we collect data about identity needs to become transparent.
  • Will consumers understand that better identity data equals higher-quality messaging to them throughout their lives? Context will allow us to exchange value better and build deeper networks in physical world data collection.
  • We need better systems to understand and provide access to individuals’ identity by service and by object
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  • How do we get the right message to the right user to maximize the value to the consumer? In doing so, we can minimize waste and theoretically deliver a much more accurate and compelling experience
  • The Internet of Things phenomenon is in the early days of posing the question: Can we, or should we, bring the intelligence and efficiency of the Internet to everyday objects?
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
al_semenchenko

Фотограф протестировал нейросетевой поиск людей во «ВКонтакте» на пассажирах ... - 0 views

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shared by al_semenchenko on 08 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • Развитие технологий отбирает у властных структур монополию на идентификацию человека по фото/видео и передаёт эту возможность буквально любому заинтересованному.
  • В проекте YOUR FACE IS BIG DATA я фотографировал людей, сидевших передо мной в вагоне метро, а потом искал их в социальных сетях с помощью общедоступного программного обеспечения. Таким образом я узнавал многое о жизни человека, не вступая в личный контакт, и мог сопоставить реальный образ с интернет-репрезентацией.
  • Для своего проекта Цветков использовал популярное приложение FindFace, авторы которого проиндексировали все доступные в открытом доступе фото во «ВКонтакте» и создали нейросеть, которая способна находить профиль нужного человека по снимку.
Maria Gurova

How The Internet Of Everything Is Helping Humankind | Tae Yoo - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 13 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • The good news is that the citizens faced with this disaster reaped the benefits of enhanced mass communications and early warning systems -- clearly the power of the Internet being used for social good.
  • Technology is getting smaller, faster, cheaper and more powerful every day. With this phenomenon, sensors in almost everything become the norm -- in our cars, machinery and infrastructure. This evolution, paired with the power of cloud computing and big data analytics, makes it possible for both humans and inanimate objects to communicate valuable information.
  • citizens already turn to social media for disaster updates to supplement traditional governmental and agency sources. Taken a step further, imagine an app that enables disaster victims and relief workers to view a shared map and see where all the rescue and aid efforts are situated in real time.
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  • Recognizing that while technology in and of itself does not save lives, the intelligent use of technology does.
Anna Dubinina

Контекстную рекламу хочет регулировать государство - 1 views

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CIS Social Marketing Big Data regulation legislation Political Manipulation

shared by Anna Dubinina on 11 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Помимо "навязчивости", Роскомнадзор отмечает недопустимость использования big-data инструментов для таргетинга рекламных сообщений.
Oleg Batluk

Алгоритмы любви: какими будут свидания в 2040 году | Хайтек - 0 views

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CIS e-romance digital zombies AI global mobility

shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • прогнозы о том, как изменятся отношения и свидания через 25 лет
  • Американская компания New Deal Design, которая занимается выпуском фитнес-трекеров Fitbit, готовит к выпуску «татуировки», которые будут визуализировать эмоции человека.
  • в будущем у нас будет две «вторых половинки» — человек и робот
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  • Программы на основе искусственного интеллекта смогут в реальном времени анализировать видео со свидания и облегчить моменты неловкости
  • Люди будут полагаться на большие данные для принятия решений о длительных отношениях
  • в будущем люди захотят подбирать себе пару по данным ДНК
  • искать партнера можно будет не только в своем городе, но и в других городах и даже странах
  • Oleg Batluk on 02 Mar 16
     
    Technologies will bring big data to romantic relationship turning it into e-romance
Maria Gurova

Analytics in Action - 0 views

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  • Maria Gurova on 18 Nov 13
     
    A constant need to analyze ever increasing amount of data coming from new sources requires new type of analytics and expertise, the tendency that will make corporations invest in the new analytical tools and employees with a new set of skills
Maria Gurova

I quantified my baby and wish I could get the time back - 1 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • It’s part of an experiment to see if technology can help with the daunting and seemingly Sisyphean tasks of a first time parent, to find out why a growing number of people are turning to gadgets to help with one of life's toughest jobs.
  • Attempting to simplify parenthood with gizmos and apps has perversely made it a lot more complicated. And as for peace of mind, forget it.
  • The concept of the “quantified baby” has been around for some time now, and there’s a large and growing market for smart infant products from anxious or diligent or curious new parents.
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  • But does it all help you to be a better father, or mother, or is it all a massive distraction from the serious business of parenting?
  • While tracking proved useful as a reminder of feedings, and gave an objective insight into longer term sleep patterns, there wasn’t much she could do with the info.
  • It's the same problem quantified self devotees have: what to do with all that data. Unless you're a math or data viz wizard and prepared to take it all incredibly seriously, the numbers that consumer gadgets and apps spew out can be pretty meaningless — even more so when you're dealing with an unpredictable baby.
  • The Mimo and the Owlet are just the tip of the emerging infant tracking iceberg.
  • Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15
     
    does using all the tech can offer to monitor your infant health make you a better parent or ease the toughest job in the world. Based on the article - not really 
Anton Vorykhalov

Smart Billboards Identify Vehicles to Target Ads | Digital Trends - 0 views

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shared by Anton Vorykhalov on 14 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Smart billboards will identify car models and target ads to drivers
  • Some day in the not-too-distant future ads you see on billboards will be there simply because of the make, model, and year of the vehicle you’re driving. Smart data storage company Cloudian and Japanese advertising company Dentsu are launching just such a program in Japan this fall, as reported by CNN Money.
  • Cloudian and Dentsu tested smart billboard vehicle recognition earlier this year with impressive results. Combining big data and deep learning, the test identified vehicles in traffic correctly 94 percent of the time.
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  • Once the system has identified a vehicle, it displays a targeted ad on the LED billboard for as long as five seconds. The choice of ads to be displayed to specific vehicles is determined by the advertisers. For example, people driving a five-year old vehicle might see an ad for a newer model of the same car. Truck drivers might be shown ads for upcoming trucker-friendly stops.
Maria Gurova

Google on Its Own Transparency Report: This Is Not Good Enough - Rebecca J. Rosen - The... - 0 views

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shared by Maria Gurova on 18 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • To promote transparency around this flow of information, we’ve built an interactive online Transparency Report with tools that allow people to see where governments are demanding that we remove content and where Google services are being blocked.
  • Though Google would often note that the report was not complete picture of how governments accessed user data online, it couched that admission in the context that the report was growing and improving with each release.
  • Since we began sharing these figures with you in 2010, requests from governments for user information have increased by more than 100 percent. This comes as usage of our services continues to grow, but also as more governments have made requests than ever before. And these numbers only include the requests we’re allowed to publish.
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  • Instead of highlighting the report's strengths, it is using this release to emphasize what it cannot say, but wants to.
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