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Oxford firm to screen 15,000 drugs in search for coronavirus cure | Business | The Guar... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...arch-for-coronavirus-treatment

ITGS COVID-19 ai machine learning

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  • Exscientia recently claimed a world first when it announced that human tests of the first drug generated entirely by AI – for obsessive-compulsive disorder – would start in March. The project took less than 12 months, instead of the usual four to five years.
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Volunteers create world's fastest supercomputer to combat coronavirus | Technology | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...computer-to-combat-coronavirus

ITGS COVID-19 exaflop supercomputer ai machine learning botnet people and machines digital citizenship

shared by dr tech on 18 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Apr 20
     
    "According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second - or one "exaflop" - on 25 March."
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Will the Pandemic Usher in an Era of Mass Surveillance in Higher Education? - The Chron... - 0 views

www.chronicle.com/...248515

ITGS COVID-19 surveillance education telecommuting higher education

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  • dr tech on 19 Apr 20
     
    "As colleges come under unprecedented pressure to downsize, from the pandemic as well as the steep enrollment decline that was already projected for 2025, some professors predict that the shift online might reinforce "corporate university" tendencies to track professors' productivity and use the results as an excuse to lay them off."
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How a global health crisis turns into a state-run surveillance opportunity | John Naugh... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-run-surveillance-opportunity

ITGS surveillance covid 19 app control government and politics

shared by dr tech on 08 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 08 Mar 20
     
    "But an analysis of the app's code found that it does more than decide in real time whether someone poses a contagion risk; it also shares information with the police, setting "a template for new forms of automated social control that could persist long after the epidemic subsides"."
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How people are using AI to detect and fight the coronavirus | VentureBeat - 0 views

venturebeat.com/...tect-and-fight-the-coronavirus

ITGS ai covid 19 control health

shared by dr tech on 09 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Mar 20
     
    "An AI system developed by Chinese tech company Baidu that uses an infrared sensor and AI to predict people's temperatures is now in use in Beijing's Qinghe Railway Station, according to an email sent to Baidu employees that was shared with VentureBeat."
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Wuhan Kids Give Bad Ratings to Homework-Assigning App to Remove It from App Store - 0 views

interestingengineering.com/pp-to-remove-it-from-app-store

ITGS COVID-19 app wisdom of crowds education equality of access

shared by dr tech on 09 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Mar 20
     
    ""Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk's rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: 'I'm only five years old myself, please don't kill me.'""
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'The new normal': China's excessive coronavirus public monitoring could be here to stay... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...nitoring-could-be-here-to-stay

ITGS COVID-19 surveillance politics and goverment control

shared by dr tech on 09 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Mar 20
     
    "Others are more emphatic about the future. Wang Aizhong, an activist based in Guangzhou, said: "This epidemic undoubtedly provides more reason for the government to surveil the public. I don't think authorities will rule out keeping this up after the outbreak.""
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Coronavirus: Singapore develops smartphone app for efficient contact tracing, Singapore... - 0 views

www.straitstimes.com/...-for-efficient-contact-tracing

ITGS app people and machines COVID-19 smartphone surveillance

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  • dr tech on 21 Mar 20
     
    "Dubbed TraceTogether, the app is able to identify people who have been in close proximity - within 2m for at least 30 minutes - to coronavirus patients using wireless Bluetooth technology, said its developers, the Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and the Ministry of Health (MOH), on Friday (March 20)."
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Smartphones could help us track the coronavirus - but at what cost? | John Naughton | O... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...k-coronavirus-but-at-what-cost

ITGS smartphones algorithm track surveillance COVID-19

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  • dr tech on 22 Mar 20
     
    "There's a technology that could be really useful in providing a real-time measure of the effectiveness (or otherwise) of public policy. But it's so intrusive that in "normal" times we would be very hesitant to adopt it. Present times are not normal, though, so we will probably adopt it - perhaps sensibly - "just for the duration of the crisis". And then?"
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Under Europe's virus lockdown, social media proves a lifeline - CNA - 0 views

www.channelnewsasia.com/...dia-proves-a-lifeline-12549170

ITGS social media positive COVID 19 facebook people and machines

shared by dr tech on 18 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Mar 20
     
    "For many, the surge in social media use in recent years has been an awful contradiction - rather than making people more friendly, it has tended to cut them off, cause division and fuel anger and resentment, not sociability. But as Europe adjusts to the reality of self-isolation, there are signs social media can bring out the best in people, not just the boastful or argumentative bits many decry."
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This company says it knows who isn't socially distancing - 0 views

mashable.com/...ancing-phone-tracking-database

ITGS social media smartphone control anonymity privacy COVID-19 peopleandmachines government and politics

shared by dr tech on 25 Mar 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Mar 20
     
    "The company, Unacast, went live with its Social Distancing Scoreboard Tuesday. The dashboard, billed as a public health utility, includes a county-by-county breakdown of people's movement patterns. It assigns each county a grade, which Unacast based (at least in part) on how much people are traveling. "
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Folding@home diverts users' computer power to finding coronavirus cure - 0 views

www.dezeen.com/...-cure-folding-at-home-software

ITGS COVID-19 hive mind ai machine learning

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  • dr tech on 25 Mar 20
     
    "The computers are connected into a kind of hive mind via a downloadable software, allowing the system to run calculations with greater speed and efficiency than any individual device. This is necessary to do the complex work of simulating how the proteins that make up the novel coronavirus behave and where there could be potential binding sites for drugs to latch on to."
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Tech giants struggle to stem 'infodemic' of false coronavirus claims | World news | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...demic-false-coronavirus-claims

ITGS infodemic fakenews data disinformation social media COVID-19 systems control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 12 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Apr 20
     
    "It is a stark contrast to how social media platforms have dealt with misinformation in the past."
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Special report: The simulations driving the world's response to COVID-19 - 0 views

www.nature.com/...d41586-020-01003-6

ITGS simulations reliability data information visualization limitations

shared by dr tech on 05 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Apr 20
     
    "But, as he and other modellers warn, much information about how SARS-CoV-2 spreads is still unknown and must be estimated or assumed - and that limits the precision of forecasts. An earlier version of the Imperial model, for instance, estimated that SARS-CoV-2 would be about as severe as influenza in necessitating the hospitalization of those infected. That turned out to be incorrect."
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Using Big Tech to tackle coronavirus risks swapping one lockdown for another | Adam Smi... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...pping-one-lockdown-for-another

ITGS privacy and anonymity covid-19 control politics and government

shared by dr tech on 23 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Apr 20
     
    "At a time when science fiction and reality feel as if they are collapsing in on each other, we must resist the temptations of Big Brother; we would just be trading one kind of lockdown for another."
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Contact apps won't end lockdown. But they might kill off democracy | John Naughton | Op... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-they-might-kill-off-democracy

ITGS app covid-19 democracy government and politics control surveillance privacy and anonymity

shared by dr tech on 26 Apr 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Apr 20
     
    "There are clear indications that the UK government is now actively considering use of the technology as a way of easing the lockdown. If this signals an outbreak in Whitehall of tech "solutionism" - the belief that for every problem there is a technological answer - then we should be concerned. Tech solutions often do as much harm as good, for example, by increasing social exclusion, lacking accountability and failing to make real inroads into the problem they are supposedly addressing."
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Contact tracing apps unsafe if Bluetooth vulnerabilities not fixed | ZDNet - 0 views

www.zdnet.com/...ooth-vulnerabilities-not-fixed

ITGS app covid-19 government and politics control surveillance privacy and anonymity bluetooth apps vulnerabilities

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  • dr tech on 27 Apr 20
     
    "As more governments turn to contact tracing apps to aid in their efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, cybersecurity experts are warning this may spark renewed interest in Bluetooth attacks. They urge developers to ensure such apps are regularly tested for vulnerabilities and release patches swiftly to plug potential holes, while governments should provide assurance that their databases are secure and the data collected will not be used for purposes other than as originally intended. "
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Singapore to require smartphone check-ins at all businesses and will log visitors' nati... - 0 views

www.theregister.co.uk/...ntry_singapore_visitor_logging

ITGS bluetooth privacy and anonymity government and politics app smartphone covid-19

shared by dr tech on 05 May 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 May 20
     
    "Singapore was one of the first nations to adopt a Bluetooth-powered contact-tracing app, fueling plenty of global debate about the best way to deploy the technology. SafeEntry will advance that debate as its introduction surely suggests that contact-tracing apps have their limitations."
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The post-human world is emerging, will free humans resist? -- Society's Child -- Sott.net - 0 views

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ITGS ai people and machines covid-19 employment

shared by dr tech on 06 May 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 May 20
     
    ""It literally is at a point now we've created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is literally where we are. I would encourage all of you how to internalize this is - if you feed the beast, the beast will destroy you.""
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