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al_semenchenko

The Next Star Wars Movie Has Recruited a Team of Drones to Protect Its Secrets - 1 views

  • Accessible drone technology is creating a bizarre future in the world of movie making
  • A Croatian website, MosCroatia first reported the drone detail in a larger update about Episode VIII will be doing some location filming in Dubrovnik, a popular tourist destination in the southern part of the country. Aside from reportedly having six hundred guards being deployed on location to try and prevent the public from snapping any sneaky pictures, the skies above filming will be protected by a team of remote-controlled drones that will target anyone attempting to fly a drone of their own over the set.
Oleg Batluk

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

  • 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.
anna_nelidova

Head tracker knows what you're doing and helps you multitask | New Scientist - 1 views

  • wearable system that tracks human movements to understand what task you’re doing, how difficult it is, and when you switch to something else. His goal is to help us control our multitasking lives
  • Gathering patterns of data that describe humans doing different tasks has more potential than just helping us work more efficiently.
  • the device could turn your phone to silent or deliver only emergency notifications. It could also tell you when you need to take a break
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  • Epps’s team has made a device which straps to a baseball cap that can work out the intensity of a task and when a person switches to another task – just from their head movements.
  • o use the data from wearables to train artificial intelligences.
  • Epps’s team is building a new prototype made from cheap components that can be worn on glasses, which tracks eye movement and speech as well as head motion.
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    A wearable system that tracks head movements could help people to multitask and handle distractions. The data generated by wearables on millions of humans can be useful for learning purposes of robots and AI. 
Maria Gurova

Mark Zuckerberg shows off virtual reality ping pong on the Oculus - 0 views

  • that allows people to play games with each other in real time using their hands, even if they aren't in the same room.
  • and down to simulate completely different worlds — outer space, under water and so on."
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    how VR may transform the Future of Education, imagine you don't need to  travel anywhere to be there. Additional applications of VR, e.g. Travel, Education, Entertainment etc 
Oleg Batluk

Russia has largest number of female business leaders | Russia & India Report - 2 views

  • Russia tops the list of countries with the highest number of female board members
  • 45 percent of senior management positions are held by women
  • Japan ranks lowest with only 7 percent of business executive roles held by females
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  • The fact that Eastern European countries often have higher numbers of senior positions held by females may be attributed to the “legacy of communist principles on equality,”
  • n the UK and US in particular, there are still plentiful examples of a ‘command and control’ approach to leadership, which is not necessarily attractive to women
  • The report also confirmed the findings of numerous previous studies indicating that companies which have both women and men in senior management outperform those with male-only boards.
zolotarev

The U.S. Is Losing a Major Front to China in the New Cold War - Bloomberg - 2 views

  • Governments across Southeast Asia are adopting Chinese-style internet and data controls
  • The spread of a Chinese-style internet is a problem for U.S. internet giants from Facebook to Google
  • Southeast Asia has thus become a testbed for Beijing’s political objectives, a jumping-off point in a long-term campaign to extend its influence around the globe.
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  • “The most likely scenario now is not a splintering, but rather a bifurcation into a Chinese-led internet and a non-Chinese internet led by America,” the former Google chief executive reportedly told
  • “Globalization means that they get to play too.”
  • in the longer term, there’s a real risk American companies could get supplanted by the likes of WeChat, TikTok
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