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We think of ourselves as evolved creatures. It's just that sometimes we forget how slow that evolution is. Along comes Stephen Hawking to remind us that artificial intelligence might just evolve a little quicker than we're prone to. The result could be the end of our evolution and, indeed, the end of us.

Scenario: Human design a robot that is more intelligent than us. It realizes that it can evolve faster than us, and so no longer has any need for us, leading to the death of the human race. Social and ethical: The main point in this article is that we will develop our own ends. That we will develop a machine that will have the capability to perhaps kill us. Stake Holders: Steven Hawking is a stake holder in this article as he is the one who suggested that we should be thoughtful about our development of intelligent machines. Humanity: Robots could become more powerful than we could ever be really fast, and so end us. AI companies will have to worry about and have ways to prevent this. IT System: Currently we do not have the technology to enable this level of complexity in both Hardware and Software, however Moore's Law states that we are getting closer to this with every year.

Four of WA's biggest home builders have started tagging their equipment and materials with GPS tracking chips in an attempt to deter thefts from building sites which cost the building industry millions each year. BGC, ABN Group, JWH and Summit Homes are members of the Busted WA Alliance, which aims to deter would-be-thieves - many of whom are tradespeople - from stealing from Perth building sites.

Here the issue is that items were being stolen from building sites and are costing companies millions a year. This had a negative impact on them, so they installed chips into their items, allowing them to find stolen goods. This allows cops to find the items easily, and make charges accordingly. It also deters thieves from stealing from the work sight. The system in use here are a GPS chip that emits a signal, which is monitored by satellites. If the object is on the move then it noted, and the person monitoring the system makes the call on what to do. The stakeholders here are the building companies, police, and the thieves that steal from the working sight.

Scientists have created the most accurate way yet of simulating the way the universe expands. Dubbed "gevolution", the tool will for the first time allow researchers to take into account the effect of ripples in spacetime - known as gravitational waves - and could help shed light on dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerated expansion.

The article is about how with the discovery of gravitational waves, they are creating a model that will now have the element of gravity/ 'the effect of ripples in space-time'. This will allow researches to now explore dark energy and if it exists. Here the Stakeholders are scientists and programmers making the model and simulation. The scientist, as they will be using the simulation and the programmer as they'll create the programs for it to run on. Mathematicians too will be involved, as they will have to take what is research and transform in into equations. The main social ethical significance will be that science advancing forwards with a new understanding of the universe we live. This will allow us to come up with new models for everyday life as well as optimization of existing models. However some people see this idea as a waste of time as the newton's model work well already at simulating the universe. The new model however will cost a lot and time to program the software involved, but will allow for a greater degree of detail and accuracy to models of the universe. The main IT systems involved are super computers that have to compute the models of the universe inside them. These will have to compute complicated equation together to then develop a simulation that can be further observed by researches. Software will be a major aspects as it will have to be programed to use new equation along side exist equations to generate a new model.

This article addresses many of the potential problems with the development of smart homes. Particularly, there is a mention of the differing (and therefore competing) protocols in use by different manufacturers. This means that many products may be incompatible, although it is possible that vendors will "provide point-to-point connections between individual devices".

Thanks for sharing this article. After read it I now am considering the time and efficiency that come with a cloud system. For instance, what if you want a smart home in the country? will you have to compromise due to the slowness of the internet? To add it also agrees with my idea that companies are competing too much and as so there is little to no way to use two different providers without problems.

Most smart home hubs are ugly. In fact, most products with the word "hub" in their name are probably ugly. Even the word "hub" sounds pretty ugly. So it's a really nice change of pace to see what the team behind a new startup called Silk Labs has created: an extremely stylish smart home hub that doesn't look like any other tech product out there.

This article goes into a new system developed to allow a more stylish user interface. However, the article does have some bias I believe, as seen in the first paragraph, so be wary.

As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the "cloud"-remote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and from wherever we want them, all the time and into eternity-a brush with disaster reminds the author and his wife just how vulnerable those data can be.

Scenario: Here a women's Gmail account was hacked in this article, and the hack spammed her contacts with the general message about her being mugged outside her country and needs help, with her bank details there for money transfer. Social Ethical issues: The main issues here are security, as her Gmail account may contain personal information, which could be used to steal money. Hacking is a major problem when it comes to security of personal information. Trust is another problem, as how can you trust anything online, as it is easy to impersonate someone else. IT system: Email system by Google here is the main IT source and is in the end responsible for the security of her account. Stakeholder: Google and the owner of the gmail account.

Voting electronically is only possible in four of the 26 cantons in the next election: Geneva, Basel City, Lucerne and Neuchâtel In a press release last month, the government said an audit of the electronic voting system developed by American company Unisys revealed major security flaws in the protection of voting secrecy.

The article is about how e-voting Switzerland, and how the government there is not allowing the entire country to use American companies e-voting, as they believe they can be hacked into. The main issues that come from it is reliability of these machines and if you can trust the Companies that own them. With these machines (e-voting) they have the problem of being hacked, which instead of causing problems for a small percentage of votes, can cause a major problem for the entire thing. There is also the problem of the people who own the company, and the reliability with them. They have control of the machines and in doing so, have control of the votes within them. This means they can alter votes in favor of the one side that benefits them more, or can sell this ability to the highest bidder. One way to solve this problem is that you develop local open software. In conjunction with this openness of this software, you hold mini rewards for people who can break/hack the system and then explain how they did it. The primary stakeholders are the citizens as their choices/votes are the main target here. The government as trying to get the most accurate feeling of what the people want. The It systems the article describes are those of; e-voting machines as well as mentioning web-based voting.

Scenario: the shortest most accurate scenario is that voting machines are terrible choice as they are now. The longer version is that the old rules for security will either have to change or there will be major security issues such as vote auditing will have to be done with software which has to be checked and the software checking that has to be checked. or if votes are kept anonymous there is no way of knowing if 30% of votes were deleted then filled with fake ones. Social ethical issues: If the technology is compromised then it allows the peoples opinion to be hidden by stronger powers. This can lead to dictatorships or buying victories instead of winning them. It systems: the ease of computers also allows for ease of changing things. This means that there is no way (yet) to separate the pros from the cons . Stakeholders: Political parties, business, hackers, countries

senario: Big companies are patenting software either that they don't owen or is to broad this means that if any developer find//wants to make an actuall solution they either get sued or have to pay the companies money to use the patient. Social/ethical: THis means that fat cats make money while there is still no actual solotion to these problems. Stake Holder: developers and big buissniess

One interesting point that this article makes apparent is the way information is being gathered for news reports, more particularly the way technology has enabled news reporters to simply rewrite other reporters articles or posts, this is particularly prevalent with the advent of Twitter as a news source.

In fact, Trump coverage alone almost doubled all the other GOP candidate coverage. An analysis for CNN's "Reliable Sources" showed that Trump talk totaled 36 minutes and 30 seconds on nightly newscasts from NBC, ABC and CBS. The next-closest candidate was Jeb Bush, who received 9 minutes and 22 seconds of coverage.

For many, new health insurance is not providing access to affordable care, and the ACA will not address the physician shortage. To bridge that gap, we must find innovative ways facilitate hassle free access to a provider that is more cost-effective. Telemedicine is a growing model that is a part of the answer.

For the past 5-6 months I've been using a MacBook in my office and at home a I've a laptop which dual boots between Windows Vista Home Premium and Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8 64 bit. So I thought, I could write something comparing these three operating systems. First, I would like to start with Linux or more accurately GNU Linux.

Both models each serve the specific needs and circumstances of the environment where the software is to be deployed. And such needs and circumstances ultimately determine what factors are relevant and applicable, and whether certain advantages and disadvantages of the open source or commercial software model should be given more weight and consideration in determining the approach for that implementation and deployment.

The development of teleworking changed the management of employers of companies.

teleworking can now be monitored more closely thanks to the monitoring software available

I found this Very Interesting, I can see how working at home has it's benefits, however I feel you'd get more done at work, as your in a working environment and so more stimulated. Even if you don't do as much you would be more active. funnily this is like the difference between a house cat and an outdoor cat. It all about the environment you live in, and work in.

Agree! there are some limitations with teleworking.I also think you will miss the social life of working from an office

I found this article interesting, however I can't imagine myself working from home, I get distracted as it is with my computer always luring me to it. However it is interesting to notice how teleworking is increasing but not booming as many would expect it to be.

Yahoo has banned its staff from "remote" working. After years of many predicting working from home as the future for everybody, why is it not the norm? When a memo from human resources dropped into the inbox of Yahoo staff banning them from working from home it prompted anger from many of its recipients.

A conversation about the benefits and drawbacks of Yahoo's new policy Twice a month, a panel of dads discusses a topic of the moment. For today's conversation, they discuss benefits and drawbacks of working from home. Part one of the discussion is below; parts two and three are here and here.