Interesting
that the Privacy Foundation had selected the Internet of Things as
tomorrow's seminar topic months before Gartner published this list.
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Gartner
lays out its top 10 tech trends for 2015
The
Internet of Things, and everything that's part of its universe,
including smart machines, pervasive analytics and 3D printing, are on
Gartner's annual list of strategic technologies for the year ahead.
1: Computing Everywhere. To Gartner, this simply means ubiquitous
access to computing capabilities.
2: The
Internet of Things (IoT).
3: 3D printing.
4: Advanced, Pervasive and Invisible Analytics. Every application is
an analytical app today.
5: Context Rich Systems. Knowing the user, the location, what they
have done in the past, their preferences, social connections and
other attributes all become inputs into applications.
6: Smart Machines.
7: Cloud and Client Computing.
8: Software Defined Applications and Infrastructure.
9: Web-Scale IT.
10: Security. In particular, Gartner envisions more attention to
application self-protection.
We
can does not mean we must.
Alistair
Barr reports:
Google already scans users’ Gmail email accounts to show more
relevant ads. Now the Internet giant is scouring emails for bills.
The company said
Tuesday that its Google Search mobile app can now remind users
when bills are due by spotting emailed bills in their Gmail accounts
and automatically reading the important details.
Users can tap the microphone icon in the app and ask “Show me my
bills” or “My bills due this week,” and it will show upcoming
bills, how much is owed, as well as a summary of past bills.
Read
more on WSJ.
Interesting.
I don't think they mean their targets are dumb, rather that they
don't think their security needs through. For instance, Al Queda
leaders used their cellphones normally until President Clinton
mentioned that we could track (target) them using the cellphone
signal. They all stopped using cellphones.
Kevin
Gosztola writes:
In a case involving a Freedom of Information Act request for
information related to government policies and procedures for law
enforcement use of cell phone tracking, a federal judge has ordered
the release of records, which the Justice Department sought to keep
secret by claiming they
would “alert law violators”—otherwise known as criminals—to
how to evade detection.
The ACLU in Northern California and San Francisco Bay Guardian filed
a lawsuit seeking documents on location tracking technology on July
31, 2012. The Justice Department has produced a few documents but
has continued to insist that many of the documents requested are
“work product” so they are protected from disclosure. The agency
has also refused to search for documents that were requested.
Read
more on Firedoglake.
e-Drugs
for recreation? What could possibly go wrong? If you can elevate
your mood, can my Ethical Hackers bring you back down? Will there be
a record of this mind alteration after the (inevitable) accident?
Could this be why Facebook was conducting those “experiments” on
its users?
Thync
to Launch First Mood-Altering Wearable With $13M Led by Khosla
…
After working in stealth for several years,
Thync Inc. has announced that next year it will launch the first
wearable health gadget for the mind, and that it has raised $13
million from venture capitalists to do so.
…
People world-wide spend billions every year on various products to
change or enhance their mood, including energy drinks, alcohol,
coffee and other stimulants and depressants. Thync will attempt to
bring consumers to their happy place by using electrical waveforms
and neuro-signaling algorithms, Dr. Tyler said.
The
head-worn device will send electrical signals to regions of the
brain, he said. Though it will be subject to regulation, the company
will seek to sell the wearable as a consumer device, meaning it will
have a less rigorous pathway to approval than new drugs or many
medical devices.
Sort
of like stalking you based on your phone's unique “fingerprint.”
...and Facebook isn't the only one doing this.
Even
More Facebook Ads Will Now Appear in Your Other Apps
Facebook
is extending the reach of its ad-targeting talents—again.
On
Tuesday, the social networking giant invited all mobile app
developers and publishers onto the Facebook Audience Network, a
mobile advertising network that extends beyond Facebook itself and
onto third-party mobile apps.
…
That means any developer or publisher can sign up to display the
network’s ads inside their apps—and take a cut of the revenue.
…
The Audience Network is just one way that Facebook is expanding this
sort of ad targeting beyond its own social network. Last week, the
company unveiled Atlas, a separate tool that allows companies to grab
ads from all sorts of sources and serve them across all sorts of
sites and services, and it too can target ads based on Facebook data.
With
the Audience Network, Sriram Krishnan explains, Facebook
targets users via a mobile device identifier—a software token
that’s specific to a particular phone or tablet.
We'll
need to integrate this into our Data Mining and Data Analysis
classes.
Martin
Abrams writes:
The Foundation has released the first paper from its Big
Data Ethics Project. The project’s purpose is to
establish tools for both companies and enforcement agencies to assure
people get the benefits of big data but are not boxed in by
inappropriate analysis or application. Part A of the project
establishes the basis for the other three parts that will follow.
(Read
Part A.)
The term algorithmist was invented a few years ago to define the
person who would fix all the ethical problems associated with big
data. Since then, I have been interested in just how they would they
do that.
Read
more on IAF.
Everything
you ever wanted to know about Microsoft but were afraid to ask?
Hardly.
The
Empire Reboots
Definitely
something for my students.
If
you purchased a Red Bull since 2002, they owe you $10 – here’s
how to get it
Customers who purchased a Red Bull product between
2002 and Oct. 3, 2014 are owed $10 cash or $15 in Red Bull products,
according to a settlement
the company agreed to last month.
…
To receive a $10 cash payment or $15 in Red Bull products, you must
submit a claim form. No proof of purchase is necessary to obtain
settlement benefits.
As
it happens, I'm teaching a spreadsheet class. This will be a useful
“handout.”
10
Helpful Spreadsheet Templates To Help Manage Your Finances
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