Cheating Frenchman sues Uber for tipping off wife about
affair
A businessman in southern France is suing ride-hailing
company Uber over his wife's discovery of rides he took to see his lover, his
lawyer said.
The man says he once requested an Uber driver from his
wife's phone.
Despite logging off, the application continued to send
notifications to her iPhone afterwards, revealing his travel history and
arousing her suspicions.
… "My client
was the victim of a bug in an application," his lawyer David-André Darmon
told AFP news agency after the case was lodged at a court in Grasse.
"The bug has caused him problems in his private
life," Mr Darmon added.
… The glitch
affected iPhones before a software update in December, the newspaper said. Android phones did not appear to be affected.
A question for my students. What will the AI need to know to make a
diagnosis and where will they get that data?
AI May Soon Beat The Best Doctors In The World
Soon, doctors might be able to treat you before you
actually get sick.
Perspective.
Code-Dependent: Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age
Algorithms are instructions for solving
a problem or completing a task. Recipes
are algorithms, as are math equations. Computer code is algorithmic. The internet runs on algorithms and all online
searching is accomplished through them. Email knows where to go thanks to algorithms. Smartphone apps are nothing but algorithms. Computer and video games are algorithmic
storytelling. Online dating and
book-recommendation and travel websites would not function without algorithms. GPS mapping systems get people from point A to
point B via algorithms. Artificial intelligence (AI) is naught but algorithms.
The material people see on social media
is brought to them by algorithms. In
fact, everything people see and do on the web is a product of algorithms. Every time someone sorts a column in a
spreadsheet, algorithms are at play, and most financial transactions today are
accomplished by algorithms. Algorithms
help gadgets respond to voice commands, recognize faces, sort photos and build
and drive cars. Hacking, cyberattacks
and cryptographic code-breaking exploit algorithms. Self-learning
and self-programming algorithms are now emerging, so it is possible that in
the future algorithms will write many if not most algorithms.
I’m always looking for ‘the next big thing!’
Is Snapchat the next tech titan?
"When Snapchat first became popular in 2013, many
thought the messaging app would disappear almost as quickly as its vanishing
messages," said The Economist. Instead, it captured the imagination of tens
of millions of millennials. Now its
parent company, Snap, is poised to go public
in March at an expected valuation of roughly $20 billion, the biggest initial
public offering for a U.S. tech company since Facebook. But unlike that social media juggernaut, which
strives to create a record of its users' lives, "Snapchat offers
liberating impermanence." Users
love that they can share impromptu pictures and videos with groups of friends
without worrying about them living online forever. About 41
percent of Americans ages 18 to 34 use Snapchat every day; about 161
million around the globe open the app daily.
"Snapchat may be a messaging app, but in many ways,
it's also a new kind of television," said Christopher Mims at The Wall Street Journal. Snap reports that its users watch 10 billion
videos a day.
A part of the discussion in every class I teach. A January snapshot.
We think the world is dominated by Facebook, but is it
really the world’s favourite social network? And what about the second most popular social
networks? Lets check the world map!
(Related). Still
big numbers, but perhaps all the Twits were already following President Trump?
Twitter only grew by two million users during Trump mania —
Facebook grew by 72 million
Not that Trump doesn’t already say everything you could
possibly imagine… Make a video!
Trump with love
TURN TRUMP'S WORDS INTO MESSAGES OF LOVE.
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