As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as they publicly fail to enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled…
There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley — and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radical transparency.” Mark Zuckerberg works in a fully transparent four-walled glass office surrounded by the rest of Facebook. Valve got rid of managers and…
In 2017 alone, US companies spent upwards of $10 billion on third party audience data. And while generally speaking, people were once indifferent or oblivious to the way personal data was collected, the tide has certainly turned. In the wake of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, people are more aware than ever of the tenuous nature…
Analytics, advertising and other web scripts can capture information housed in user confirmations for flight bookings, food delivery, medical testing and more.
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In a bid to improve quality of life for cancer patients, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned to machine learning to help avoid toxicity from cancer medications. The post By studying patient data, A.I. can limit toxicity in cancer treatment appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv…
Remember those Samsung Ingenius ads? The company is issuing their sequels, only now they are focusing on the newly released Galaxy Note9 rather than the Galaxy S9+. The first one takes a shot at Apple’s Pencil stylus and the second one comes to tell us that the Galaxy Note9 is feature-rich and really powerful. Check…
Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, has appointed the country’s first applied artificial intelligence (AI) ethics committee, in order to help guide the responsible development of AI applications in the UK. The Machine Intelligence Garage Ethics Committee has been established to help define and apply ethical AI standards in practice, and…
A new startup, Workona, this week launched software designed for those who primarily do their work in a browser. The company’s goal is to become the OS for web work – and to also save web workers from the hell that is a million open tabs. To accomplish this, Workona offers smart browser windows you…
Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s Southeast Asia business in May has been embroiled in regulatory scrutiny, but the ride-hailing firm has some positive news after the Philippines’ regulator gave the deal the all-clear. It did so, however, whilst laying out terms to prevent the company from becoming overly dominant. Singapore’s watchdog said in July that competition…
When Fortnite Battle Royale launched on Android, it made an unusual choice: it bypassed Google Play in favor of offering the game directly from Epic Games’ own website. Most apps and games don’t have the luxury of making this choice – the built-in distribution Google Play offers is critical to their business. But Epic Games believes…
