Nicholas Iovino reports:
A federal judge proclaimed
Thursday that the nation’s Founding Fathers have little insight to offer on
whether the Constitution allows people to sue Facebook for collecting their
biometric facial data without consent.
“A couple of justices are focused
on what happened 200 years ago,” U.S. District Judge James Donato said during a
hearing on a motion to dismiss a privacy class action against Facebook.
“What opinion does George
Washington have on this? There are
historical realties that simply don’t overlap.”
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News.
[Why not
ask the man himself?
I’ve been trying to explain this to my students; Apps are
dead, long live the Bot!
How Microsoft plans to find you the best bots
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella may be the tech giant CEO who’s
most publicly vocal about his belief that conversation will be as impactful to
computing as the graphic user interface.
So it makes sense that his company has
made conversation-computing breakthroughs.
Last week, Microsoft researchers announced that they made
neural networks with speech recognition on par with humans. This
week, Microsoft is widely expected
to launch its Slack competitor, Skype Teams.
… The research
group created the Microsoft Bot Framework — a toolkit to make bots for
half a dozen chat apps released in April, and which, as of last month, is being used by 45,000 developers. Microsoft Research also
made Xiaoice, Rinna, and Tay, bots that have attracted the attention of
tens of millions of people.
Cheng and Forstrom talked about the idea of creating a
common bot
search engine with some of the biggest platforms in the world.
Keep up or perish!
Butterball Turkey help line is getting a big update this year
… This is the
first year you'll be able to contact the help line by sending a text message to
1-800-BUTTERBALL. The text line will be
open 24/7 from November 17 through November 24.
… While this is
the first year Butterball is communicating via text, the company has
started using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube videos to
help panicked cooks. The
company has Spanish-speaking turkey experts on the line. As the company noticed an influx of men
calling in with turkey questions, it hired more male talk line experts.
I should probably make a comment on this latest kerfuffle,
just so 100 years from now historians can say, “Bob got it all wrong!” This recent episode is very fishy. Apparently, the FBI had the emails for a
couple of weeks before Comey was “briefed on their discovery.” Apparently, the FBI asked Abedin about emails
she received from Secretary Clinton (all aides were asked about emails) but did
not find these at that time. Apparently,
Abedin/Weiner have their own mail server, just like Hillary, otherwise the emails
would be stored on the g-mail server or whatever service they used. Emails “not previously reviewed” would be
Hillary’s personal stuff, which was mixed in with State department business but
then pulled before turning over her official emails. Would discussions about her campaign not fall
under personal?
Abedin told FBI she didn't know emails were on laptop
… There are a number of scenarios
that would explain how the emails got onto the laptop without Abedin's
knowledge, including that they were somehow automatically
backed up from the cloud. [Backups would
go to the cloud. Restores would come
back from the cloud. Bob] But investigators will want to know how
this happened and if there is any indication that Abedin misled them about the
existence of emails. It is a large project. Agents determined there were as many as 650,000 emails on the laptop, dating back years. [How old is this computer? Bob] The number of emails related to the Clinton investigation is likely to be much smaller.
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