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Amazon's Alexa Reviewers Can Access Customers's Home Addresses
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Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz
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The Register
Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp
Rental firm fuming after consultancy 'never delivered a functional site or mobile app'
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Notes on AI Bias
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Benedict Evans
Notes on AI Bias — Benedict Evans
Machine learning is the new centre of tech, and like all big new things there are issues. ‘AI bias’ is much-discussed right now: machine learning finds patterns but sometimes it finds the wrong one, and it can be hard to tell.
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The 'Dark Ages' Weren't as Dark as We Thought
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Literary Hub
The ‘Dark Ages’ Weren’t As Dark As We Thought
There can be few more damning or more useless terms than “the Dark Ages.” They sound fun in an orcs‐and‐elves sort of way and suggest a very low benchmark from which we have since, as a…
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Finding Practical Applications for Origami
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design
Scientists and engineers are finding practical applications for the Japanese art form in space, medicine, robotics, architecture and more
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Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
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TechCrunch
Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable
Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to ensure data integrity as new data flows into an enterprise’s…
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Two Cathay Pacific captains lose eyesight during flights
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South China Morning Post
Two Cathay captains lose eyesight on flights, sparking investigations
A spokeswoman says the airline is aware of the investigations and is cooperating fully with the Air Accident Investigation Authority.
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IPFS Camp 2019
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Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals
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NY Times
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Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals (Published 2019)
A prosthetic voice decodes what the brain intends to say and generates (mostly) understandable speech, no muscle movement needed.
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Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
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NY Times
Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5 Billion by F.T.C. Over Privacy Issues
Facebook and the agency have been in negotiations over a financial penalty for claims that the company violated a 2011 consent decree.
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.Net for Apache Spark Preview
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Microsoft News
Introducing .NET for Apache
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Today at Spark + AI summit we are excited to announce .NET for Apache Spark. Spark is a popular open source distributed processing engine for analytics over large data sets. Spark can be used for processing batches of data, real-time streams,
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Caddy 1.0, Caddy 2, and Caddy Enterprise
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Cameras that guess age and sex are coming to store shelves
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CBC
Cameras that guess your age and sex are coming to store shelves | CBC News
Eyeing that can of soda in the supermarket cooler? Or maybe you're craving a pint of ice cream? A camera could be watching you.
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Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease
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Harvard Magazine
Inflammation causes many common diseases of aging | Harvard Magazine
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions?
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Tibetan musical notation
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Open Culture
Tibetan Musical Notation Is Beautiful
Religions take the cast and hue of the cultures in which they find root. This was certainly true in Tibet when Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. It transformed and was transformed by the native religion of Bon.
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Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Location Data
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
Massachusetts Court Blocks Warrantless Access to Real-Time Cell Phone Location Data
There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court, ruled that police access to real-time cell phone location
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The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
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Wired
The Brave Browser Will Pay You to Surf the Web
Brave says it can show users ads while protecting their privacy; eventually, it hopes to also pay publishers.
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IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In
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Forrest Brazeal
Cloud Irregular: IAM Is The Real Cloud Lock-In · Forrest Brazeal
Forget Lambda and serverless: if you are doing anything at all in AWS besides using it as a fantastically overpriced datacenter, I pretty much guarantee you are deeply locked into IAM.
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Bombay Nights
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Aeon
Bombay nights
In the night schools of Bombay, factory workers dreamed that literacy and learning would raise them to respectability
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Xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
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The Cloudflare Blog
xdpcap: XDP Packet Capture
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling.
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Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
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