Policies starting with “Here's how” or “Thou
shalt?”
Ali Winston reports:
Oakland’s City Council on Tuesday approved the formation of the Permanent Privacy Advisory Committee to develop developing policies for the use of surveillance equipment by city agencies. The committee will build on the work of a temporary predecessor which last year developed regulations for the curtailed Domain Awareness Center and a helicopter-mounted infrared camera purchased by the Oakland Police Department.
Read more on Reveal.
Can't we all just get along?
“We don't know how to run OPM so we're going to
transfer all that ignorance to a new bureaucracy. Making government
bigger always makes us feel more important.”
Pentagon to
take over control of background investigation information
The Defense Department will take over
responsibility for storing sensitive information on millions of
federal employees and others from the Office of Personnel Management
and the government will create a new entity to oversee background
investigations, Obama administration officials announced Friday.
… A new entity to be called the National
Background Investigations Bureau will take over responsibility for
conducting background investigations government-wide.
… The new bureau, to
be headed by a presidential appointee, will take over
OPM’s Federal Investigative Services branch, while the Pentagon
will take over the information technology aspects.
Another look at Facebook's plan for world
domination?
Inside
Facebook’s Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World
(Related) Another global strategy.
Netflix in
India: Will It Be a Blockbuster?
Research tool or entertainment? (Does Facebook
care?)
How to
Search Facebook – and Find Just About Anything!
For the Gaming Club. These are the games your
parents played.
100 Classic
Atari Games Headed to Steam
The company on Thursday announced
plans to release 100 of its classic games — including Asteroids,
Centipede, Missile Command, Tempest, Warlords, and more — as a
single PC title with new features and multiplayer capabilities.
… Perhaps most exciting — you will, for the
first time ever, be able to challenge other Atari fans from around
the world, and compete for bragging rights on Steam Leaderboards.
… We haven't heard too much else from Atari
recently, but the company several years ago teamed up with Microsoft
to bring eight
of its classic games to the Web for free in HTML5. Head over to
the Atari
Arcade to brush up on your Asteroids, Centipede, Combat, Lunar
Lander, Missile Command, Yars Revenge, Pong, and Super Breakout
skills before Atari Vault drops later this year.
(Related) This is what you sickos play.
'Exploding
Kittens' blows up on iOS, with Android coming soon
The iOS
release costs $1.99,
… The physical version of Exploding
Kittens still holds the record as the most-funded
game in Kickstarter history, with $8.8 million pledged by more
than 200,000 backers when the campaign ended on Feb. 19, 2015.
For my students with a future.
Google Is
Teaching a Free Online Course
Google engineers
are sharing their knowledge through a new
online course.
The class, on
education website Udacity, will focus on deep
learning, a machine learning technique that makes use of multiple
layers of neural networks in order to better understand data sets.
… The
three-month course, which requires about six hours of work per week,
are comprised of four main lessons that teach students the benefits
of deep learning systems and train them to build their own learning
models. Students will also learn how to use TensorFlow, the
open-source machine-learning software that Google uses in its own
products.
The class is not for
beginners, as Udacity recommends students have at least two years of
programming experience and some basic machine learning knowledge
beforehand.
… Students
can start the course whenever they please and complete it at their
own pace.
All the help they can get…
Quick Tips
You Can Use To Make a Better LinkedIn Profile
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My weekly entertainment.
Hack
Education Weekly News
… Via
Politico: “Even as the contaminated water crisis still rages in
Flint, Michigan, Superintendent Bilal Tawwab says district officials
are already preparing for an influx of young children entering school
in the coming years with developmental, behavioral and cognitive
challenges related to high levels of lead in the city's water
supply.” [If there is
funding available, we'll assume the worst?” Bob]
… Via
the Coursera blog: “Starting today, when you enroll in certain
courses, you’ll be asked to pay a fee (or apply for Coursera’s
financial aid program) if you’d like to submit required graded
assignments and earn a Course Certificate. You
can also choose to explore the course for free, in which
case you’ll have full access to videos, discussions, and practice
assignments, and view-only access to graded assignments.”
… Via
The Guardian: “In the library in the gym, Big
Brother is coming to universities.”
… And to make that crystal clear, here’s a
press release rewrite via
Campus Technology: “Toshiba Intros Surveillance
Education Program.”
… The
NYT’s Natasha Singer takes a closer look at ed-tech funding,
noting that “Despite the volume of novel products aimed at schools,
the biggest investments are
largely going to start-ups focused on higher education or
job-related skills – businesses that feed a market of colleges,
companies and consumers willing to spend to promote career
advancement.”
Global Warming! Global Warming!
Blizzard
warning updates: Thundersnow and near-blizzard conditions as white
stuff piles well past one foot
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