In 2018 it’s pretty clear that Artificial Intelligence has entered Black
Mirror territo
From Facebook’s revelations of declining trust to China’s
superior facial
recognition data based
state; we’re thinking of AI and
how it’s tethered to our future differently.Read more...
Blockchain has come long way since it has come into existence
a decade ago and started gaining popularity worldwide.Originally
designed for cryptocurrencies, the technology has been embraced
across several other sectors as an integral part of them. Read more...
Blockchain and Machine Learning (ML) have been making a lot of noise
over the last couple of years, but not so much together. Made famous as
the underlying technology behind Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin, it has since grown
to prove that it can do a whole lot more.
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Big Data Integration is an important and essential step in any Big Data project. There are, however,
several issues to take into consideration. Generally speaking, Big Data Integration combines data
originating from a variety of different sources and software formats.
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Clear, intelligible speech using computer processing of human brain activty has been acheived
by scientists for the first time. Researchers at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University
were able to reconstruct the words a person heard by monitoring their brain activity.
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Your phone travels everywhere with you, potentially listening to
every sound you make. These data collectors could learn to understand
you as well as your closest friend, and probably better.
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In 2014, From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond explored the re-invention of money and a utopian
vision of a self-governing, self-editing and self-learning society. John Clippinger, who co-edited
the book, wrote one chapter on the importance of self-sovereignty.
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Any job opening in a major organization typically invites hundreds of applications;
yet only 10 percent of the incoming resumes are relevant! Imagine placing a job advertisement
in a newspaper and bracing for the deluge of applications that would consume weeks of your
time to sift through.
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When we think about the imminent development of the next digital revolution,
humanity will face an unprecedented wave of automation. More and more smart
and connected devices will coexist with us. This revolution is already taking
place, from cell phones, to autonomous vehicles and even our refrigerator.
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With 2018 coming to a close, it’s time to engage in that long-standing New Year’s tradition
of putting on our sorcerer hats and predicting what’s ahead for big data trends in 2019.
After a bit of a shakeup in the market with Cloudera and Hortonworks merging and IBM exiting
the Hadoop market, big data is beginning to prove there’s still great promise as it starts
to break out of the “for developers only” mold in a big way.
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AI holds the potential to vastly improve government operations and meet the needs of citizens
in new ways, ranging from traffic management to healthcare delivery to processing tax forms.
But many public institutions are cautious about harnessing this powerful technology due to
concerns over bias, privacy, accountability, transparency and overall complexity.
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While this story is a particularly alarming one, it’s sadly not unique — suicide is the second leading cause
of death among teenagers in the US, Europe and South-East Asia. Every day, millions of social media posts,
chats, and queries on Facebook, Snapchat, Google, Siri and Alexa relate to mental health. These posts could
act as a trail of breadcrumbs toward people most at risk of suicide.
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An algorithm trained to move through a virtual environment spontaneously generated patterns of activity
found in so-called grid neurons.A computer program can learn to navigate through space and spontaneously
mimics the electrical activity of grid cells, neurons that help animals navigate their environments,
according to a study published yesterday (May 9) in Nature.
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As leaders around the globe investigate how to leverage the benefits of blockchain technologies, security
is often a primary concern. They may be aware of the many security benefits inherent with a blockchain,
such as cryptography, immutability, decentralization. But questions remain, such as: what is the best
approach to blockchain as a technical problem? How are attackers compromising blockchain technologies?
Given its inherent security qualities
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For now, the quantum computer built by Griffith University and Nanyang Technological University scientists
can hold two superpositions of 16 different possibilities, according to the research. It also uses less memory
than a classical computer would, suggesting it could outperform classical systems at certain tasks.
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Researchers have created a 3D-printed artificial neural network that uses light photons to rapidly process information.
What is novel here is not the deep-learning part, but the optical engineering and the ability to “make a cast” of the
artificial neural network using 3-D printing
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A six-hour winter blackout in mainland France could result in damages to households, businesses and vital institutions
totalling over €1.5 billion. A well-orchestrated cyber attack on critical electricity infrastructure could have this
type of economic impact on a country. Is this realistic? Officials from the US Department of Homeland Security publicly
declared in 2018 that hackers had infiltrated the control rooms of multiple US electricity utilities to the extent that
they had the ability to disrupt the flow of electricity to customers.
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In an age of rapid technological change, we frequently create and use technologies designed
to amplify our greatest ambitions as a global community – only to find that they lead to
consequences we never imagined or intended.Our daily bread, social media, is a prime example.
These platforms were initially designed to connect us not only to friends, but also a wider
global community whose perspectives and ideas differed from our own.
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Computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have taught an artificial intelligence
agent how to do something that usually only humans can do -- take a few quick glimpses around
and infer its whole environment, a skill necessary for the development of effective search-and-
rescue robots that one day can improve the effectiveness of dangerous missions. The team, led by
professor Kristen Grauman, Ph.D. candidate Santhosh Ramakrishnan and former Ph.D. candidate
Dinesh Jayaraman (now at the University of California, Berkeley) published their results today
in the journal Science Robotics.
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This week, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is convening in Geneva to address the implementation of the health-related
goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on how to make universal health coverage
(UHC) a reality.Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its draft Global Strategy on Digital
Health, which puts digital health initiatives and greater use of technology and health information systems at the heart
of achieving affordable and universal access to care.
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