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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

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  • 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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Why does it suddenly feel like 1999 on the internet? | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...feel-like-1999-on-the-internet

ITGS internet people and machines community history social media identity globalisation

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  • dr tech on 19 Apr 20
     
    "It's like turning the clock back to a more earnest time on the web, when the novelty of having a voice or being able to connect with anyone still filled us with a sense of boundless opportunity and optimism. It harkens back to the late 1990s and early 2000s-before social media, before smartphones-when going online was still a valuable use of time to seek community."
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The messy, cautionary tale of how Babylon disrupted the NHS | WIRED UK - 0 views

www.wired.co.uk/...babylon-health-nhs

ITGS healthcare babylon nhs reliability ai app expertsystems machine learning

shared by dr tech on 26 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Feb 20
     
    "To date, the presence of Babylon's GP surgery in London has forced the NHS to reallocate millions of pounds in funding to mitigate for the disruption it has caused. Its expansion plans have been blocked before being allowed to proceed. But concerns linger with clinicians questioning the GP surgery's impact and the effectiveness of its much-hyped artificial intelligence platform."
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Users would tell Facebook their bank balance for $8.44 a month | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...r-bank-balance-for-844-a-month

ITGS privacy and anonymity facebook technology

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  • dr tech on 26 Feb 20
     
    "The study by US-based thinktank the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) is the first that attempts to quantify the value of online privacy and data. It assessed how much privacy is worth in six countries by looking at the habits of people in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Argentina."
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TikTok's Algorithm Shows Unintentional Racial Bias, Researcher Finds - 0 views

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ITGS TikTok bias algorithm gender race equality of access

shared by dr tech on 29 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 29 Feb 20
     
    "Specifically, the question is whether that algorithm is sorting suggestions based on the race of the creator - something TikTok denies it's doing intentionally. But it's another example of the need for more scrutiny into how the app and other social media platforms promote particular creators or content."
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Face-recognition masks allow wearers to open their phones - 0 views

www.dezeen.com/...nition-masks-resting-risk-face

facial recognition ITGS privacy and anonymity facemask

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  • dr tech on 29 Feb 20
     
    ""The combination of the coronavirus, facial recognition on our phones, fear of surveillance, and late-stage capitalism really struck a chord with the internet," said Baskin."
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Clearview client list "stolen" / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS privacy and anonymity facial recognition hack database

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  • dr tech on 29 Feb 20
     
    "Clearview, the shady facial-recognition firm with links to law-enforcement and alt-right internet trolls, reports that its entire client list has been stolen."
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Whose job is it to stop the livestreaming of mass murder? | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...stop-the-livestreaming-of-mass

ITGS facebook ethics policies and standards murder cleaners

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  • dr tech on 16 Feb 20
     
    "The latest incident has revived questions about who should be responsible for removing harmful content from the internet: the networks that host the content, the companies that protect those networks, or governments of the countries where the content is viewed."
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From models of galaxies to atoms, simple AI shortcuts speed up simulations by billions ... - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...eed-simulations-billions-times

ITGS ai simulation

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  • dr tech on 15 Feb 20
     
    "Now, work posted online shows how artificial intelligence (AI) can easily produce accurate emulators that can accelerate simulations across all of science by billions of times."
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The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant - 0 views

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ITGS ai implant people and machines control security

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  • dr tech on 07 Mar 20
     
    "Eric Leuthardt believes that in the near future we will allow doctors to insert electrodes into our brains so we can communicate directly with computers and each other."
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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

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  • 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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Polish school hit with GDPR fine for using fingerprints to verify students' lunch payme... - 0 views

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ITGS surveillance school students biometrics GDPR

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  • dr tech on 08 Mar 20
     
    "A school in Poland has been fined €4,600 ($5,200) for breaching Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) after it was found to be processing students' fingerprint data to verify whether they had paid for school lunch. The news comes as biometric data harnessing programs around the world spark significant privacy concerns."
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How people are using AI to detect and fight the coronavirus | VentureBeat - 0 views

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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

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

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  • 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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MIT helping robots perform complex tasks without many rules - 0 views

www.therobotreport.com/obots-complex-tasks-many-rules

MIT ai ITGS machine learning human ai intelligence belief

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  • dr tech on 10 Mar 20
     
    "At its core, the researchers' "Planning with Uncertain Specifications" (PUnS) system gives robots the human-like planning ability to simultaneously weigh many ambiguous - and potentially contradictory - requirements to reach an end goal. In doing so, the system always chooses the most likely action to take, based on a "belief" about some probable specifications for the task it is supposed to perform."
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Investors used Clearview AI app as a personal toy for spying on public / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS ai app surveillance control public spying

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  • dr tech on 10 Mar 20
     
    "Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up with ties to the extreme right used an early version of the Clearview AI app on dates and at parties - "and to spy on the public.""
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