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The Problem With Self-Driving Cars: They Don't Cry - Businessweek - 0 views

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"This stuff is far more complicated than calibrating safe following distances or even braking for a loose soccer ball. Goodall writes: "There is no obvious way to effectively encode complex human morals in software.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This stuff is far more complicated than calibrating safe following distances or even braking for a loose soccer ball. Goodall writes: "There is no obvious way to effectively encode complex human morals in software.""</div>

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Rubbish city: China's e-waste epidemic - in pictures | Art and design | theguardian.com - 0 views

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"Mounds of decaying air conditioners, piles of abandoned electronics and tenements built among the trash … Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon has documented the lives of residents of Dongxiaokou, a village outside Beijing and home to a large electronic-waste recycling centre, for a look at life amid the digital ruins"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Mounds of decaying air conditioners, piles of abandoned electronics and tenements built among the trash … Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon has documented the lives of residents of Dongxiaokou, a village outside Beijing and home to a large electronic-waste recycling centre, for a look at life amid the digital ruins"</div>

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FBI Ransomware Hits Android: How To Avoid Getting It, And Remove It - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 02 Oct 14 - No Cached

dr tech on 02 Oct 14

"Ransomware has been in the news repeatedly over the past few years. This is the insidious malware that will lock your data or device (smartphone or PC) and displays a screen-wide message that demands money from you to release it, which it does by sending you an unlock code."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Ransomware has been in the news repeatedly over the past few years. This is the insidious malware that will lock your data or device (smartphone or PC) and displays a screen-wide message that demands money from you to release it, which it does by sending you an unlock code."</div>

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Engineer Sees Big Possibilities in Micro-robots, Including Programmable Bees - 0 views

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"One prototype system that Wood has helped developed, called Second Skin, can be worn by patients with neuromuscular disorders to stimulate nerve activity and advance rehabilitation. He says that soft- and micro-robotic devices may one day be used inside the body to aid minimally invasive medical procedures."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"One prototype system that Wood has helped developed, called Second Skin, can be worn by patients with neuromuscular disorders to stimulate nerve activity and advance rehabilitation. He says that soft- and micro-robotic devices may one day be used inside the body to aid minimally invasive medical procedures."</div>

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Robotic Fabric May Advance Space Exploration and Medical Care - 0 views

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"The concept of robotic fabric is that of a soft exoskeleton or muscle tissue made out of electronic sensors and shape-memory alloys, all woven and configured into a cotton material. The end result is a sort of "skin" that can be placed around deformable materials that give the "robot" its shape."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The concept of robotic fabric is that of a soft exoskeleton or muscle tissue made out of electronic sensors and shape-memory alloys, all woven and configured into a cotton material. The end result is a sort of "skin" that can be placed around deformable materials that give the "robot" its shape."</div>

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Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many? - Medium - 0 views

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"But what will robot cars be programmed to do when there's lots of them on the roads, and they're networked with one another? We know what we as individuals would like. My car should take as its Prime Directive: "Prevent my passengers from coming to harm." But when the cars are networked, their Prime Directive well might be: "Minimize the amount of harm to humans overall." "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"But what will robot cars be programmed to do when there's lots of them on the roads, and they're networked with one another? We know what we as individuals would like. My car should take as its Prime Directive: "Prevent my passengers from coming to harm." But when the cars are networked, their Prime Directive well might be: "Minimize the amount of harm to humans overall." "</div>

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Scientist transmits message into mind of colleague 5,000 miles away using brain waves |... - 0 views

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"Could we soon send emails 'telepathically'? Scientist transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000 miles away using brain waves"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Could we soon send emails 'telepathically'? Scientist transmits message into the mind of a colleague 5,000 miles away using brain waves"</div>

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Egypt's New Internet Surveillance System Remains Shrouded in Mystery - 0 views

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"Three months passed. Then, on Wednesday, anonymous government officials reportedly confirmed that a local company called Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE or See Egypt) had won the bid to develop the system, which would allegedly allow the Egyptian government to sniff and analyze Internet and social media activity, as well as intercept Skype, WhatsApp and Viber conversations. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Three months passed. Then, on Wednesday, anonymous government officials reportedly confirmed that a local company called Systems Engineering of Egypt (SEE or See Egypt) had won the bid to develop the system, which would allegedly allow the Egyptian government to sniff and analyze Internet and social media activity, as well as intercept Skype, WhatsApp and Viber conversations. "</div>

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Computers are now better than humans at recognising images | Global | The Guardian - 0 views

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"It might not sound like much, but the success of the Minwa supercomputer, which can sort a million images into a thousand predefined categories with an error rate less than the typical human, makes it the latest secret weapon of the company known as "China's Google", Baidu."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It might not sound like much, but the success of the Minwa supercomputer, which can sort a million images into a thousand predefined categories with an error rate less than the typical human, makes it the latest secret weapon of the company known as "China's Google", Baidu."</div>

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Algorithm knows you're drunk just by looking at you - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"built an algorithm that can determine with 90 percent accuracy whether a person is drunk or not based on an infrared image of his or her face."</div>

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Want To Plant One Billion Trees In A Single Year? Try Drones. | GOOD - 0 views

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dr tech on 23 Apr 15

"First, the drones engage in aerial mapping to create detailed three-dimensional terrain models. They then begin "precision planting" by shooting seed pods that have been "pregerminated and covered in a nutritious hydrogel" into the soil. Finally, drones monitor tree growth over the course of a number of "planting audits," designed to track the reforrestation progress. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"First, the drones engage in aerial mapping to create detailed three-dimensional terrain models. They then begin "precision planting" by shooting seed pods that have been "pregerminated and covered in a nutritious hydrogel" into the soil. Finally, drones monitor tree growth over the course of a number of "planting audits," designed to track the reforrestation progress. "</div>

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Penn News | Penn Study: Americans Give Up Personal Data for Discounts, They Believe Mar... - 0 views

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"The survey found that more than half of Americans say they do not want to lose control over their information but also believe this loss of control has already happened. Turow argues that marketers misrepresent Americans' behaviors by categorizing their acceptance of company discounts in exchange for personal data as rational acceptance of "tradeoffs."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The survey found that more than half of Americans say they do not want to lose control over their information but also believe this loss of control has already happened. Turow argues that marketers misrepresent Americans' behaviors by categorizing their acceptance of company discounts in exchange for personal data as rational acceptance of "tradeoffs."</div>

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What Happens to Humans When Machines Do All the Work? | GOOD - 0 views

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"As soon as 20 years from now, 45 percent of American jobs may be performed by computers, as many as 10 million self-driving cars will be on the roads, and robots-computerized machines-will infiltrate almost every arena of our daily lives, from healthcare to energy production."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"As soon as 20 years from now, 45 percent of American jobs may be performed by computers, as many as 10 million self-driving cars will be on the roads, and robots-computerized machines-will infiltrate almost every arena of our daily lives, from healthcare to energy production."</div>

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Tesco's face scanning system: the key questions answered | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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""We don't do facial recognition, we do face detection," Ke Quang, chief operating officer of Quividi, told the Guardian on Monday. "It's software which works from the video feed coming off the camera. It can detect if it's seeing a face, but it never records the image or biomorphological information or traits."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""We don't do facial recognition, we do face detection," Ke Quang, chief operating officer of Quividi, told the Guardian on Monday. "It's software which works from the video feed coming off the camera. It can detect if it's seeing a face, but it never records the image or biomorphological information or traits."</div>

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Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k | Technology... - 0 views

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"Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory. Bitcoins are stored in encrypted wallets secured with a private key, something Koch had forgotten."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Kristoffer Koch invested 150 kroner ($26.60) in 5,000 bitcoins in 2009, after discovering them during the course of writing a thesis on encryption. He promptly forgot about them until widespread media coverage of the anonymous, decentralised, peer-to-peer digital currency in April 2013 jogged his memory. Bitcoins are stored in encrypted wallets secured with a private key, something Koch had forgotten."</div>

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Photoshop Fail, People's Republic of China edition - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"a small city in China's central Anhui province, purporting to show vice-mayor Wang Hun pay a friendly visit to an elderly woman. There's only one problem: The image, which appears to show Wang floating above a particularly tiny woman, has clearly been modified."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"a small city in China's central Anhui province, purporting to show vice-mayor Wang Hun pay a friendly visit to an elderly woman. There's only one problem: The image, which appears to show Wang floating above a particularly tiny woman, has clearly been modified."</div>

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Wikipedia editor count down by a third - Boing Boing - 0 views

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"The volunteer workforce that built the project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ..."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The volunteer workforce that built the project's flagship, the English-language Wikipedia-and must defend it against vandalism, hoaxes, and manipulation-has shrunk by more than a third since 2007 and is still shrinking. ..."</div>

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Driverless cars set to roam Milton Keynes from 2017, says Vince Cable | Technology | Th... - 0 views

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Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition database | Technology | ... - 0 views

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"Facebook is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members' profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network's controversial technology. The possible move, which Facebook revealed in an update to its data use policy on Thursday, is intended to improve the performance of its "tag suggest" feature. The feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labelling or "tagging" friends and acquaintances who appear in photos posted on the network"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Facebook is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members' profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network's controversial technology. The possible move, which Facebook revealed in an update to its data use policy on Thursday, is intended to improve the performance of its "tag suggest" feature. The feature uses facial recognition technology to speed up the process of labelling or "tagging" friends and acquaintances who appear in photos posted on the network"</div>

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4 Machine Learning Algorithms That Shape Your Life - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 23 Aug 15 - No Cached

dr tech on 23 Aug 15

"What you may not realize, though, is that machine learning is already all around you, and it can exert a surprising degree of influence over your life. Don't believe me? You might be surprised."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"What you may not realize, though, is that machine learning is already all around you, and it can exert a surprising degree of influence over your life. Don't believe me? You might be surprised."</div>

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The Problem With Self-Driving Cars: They Don't Cry - Businessweek - 0 views

Rubbish city: China's e-waste epidemic - in pictures | Art and design | theguardian.com - 0 views

FBI Ransomware Hits Android: How To Avoid Getting It, And Remove It - 0 views

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Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many? - Medium - 0 views

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Want To Plant One Billion Trees In A Single Year? Try Drones. | GOOD - 0 views

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What Happens to Humans When Machines Do All the Work? | GOOD - 0 views

Tesco's face scanning system: the key questions answered | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

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