I guess the IRS finally noticed what was going on.
IRS
temporarily suspends contract with Equifax
The IRS has temporarily suspended the $7.2
million, no-bid contract it awarded to Equifax to verify the
identities of taxpayers when they create accounts on its website, the
agency said today.
… The decision comes after media reports
earlier today that the Equifax website may have been compromised a
second time.
Makes you think, “Fake News!” doesn’t it?
Russia
reportedly used Pokémon Go in an effort to inflame racial tensions
Russia’s far-ranging
campaign to promote dissension in the United States reportedly
included an effort to weaponize Pokémon Go. CNN
reported today that in July 2016, a Tumblr page linked to
Russia’s now-notorious Internet Research Agency promoted a contest
encouraging people sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement to
play the game near famous sites of police brutality. Players were
told to change their characters’ names to the victims of those
incidents — an apparent effort to inflame racial tensions.
Perhaps we need to automate trials? Remove the
human factor. Eliminate bias.
Is a Fair
Trial Possible in the Age of Social Media?
Is there any more satisfying reading than the
transcripts of “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli’s disastrous jury
selection? A seeming cherry on the top of the schadenfreude
sundae of Shkreli’s legal disgrace, the transcripts also illuminate
how social media, which spread news of the defendant’s
price-jacking and unapologetic comments about his pharma business
well ahead of the trial, influenced his jury selection. It raises
the question: Is it possible to have a fair trial or an impartial
jury in an age when anyone is just a viral tweet or a Facebook search
away?
Frank J. Mastro wonders, too. He
examines how social media and other online behavior caused mistrials
as far back as 2009. From the moment smartphones first began to
transform social behavior, they were disrupting trials, too.
There must be a demand for this stuff, right?
Apple
cofounder Steve Wozniak launches Woz U institute to train people for
tech jobs
Steve Wozniak, one of Apple’s three original
founders, has launched a new training initiative designed to get
people ready for “high-paying technology” jobs.
The Woz U digital
institute is initially launching as an online-only affair and
promises to deliver a “new approach” to education for tech
industry jobs. For now, the curriculum focuses on training for
computer support specialists and software developers (.Net,
JavaScript, Ruby, Java, and Python), but it will later expand into
other facets of the STEM realm, including cybersecurity, mobile apps,
and data science.
(Related).
Google
commits $1 billion in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs
Perspective.
Because I like lists (and because I’m teaching
#1 right now!)
15 Top Data
Analytics Tools
Data
analytics tools are, to be sure, in great demand. A May 2017
story in The Economist declared that data
is now more
valuable than oil. While it can’t run your car,
data nonetheless is a key commodity that many of the world’s
biggest businesses run on and is the life blood of many corporations.
In treating data as an asset, that means the tools
to perform data analytics are just as vital to the business, because
without analytics you have no context, no knowledge. You just have
data, which, like raw petroleum, is useless unless it is refined.
… What follows is a list by no means complete,
but a comprehensive list of the different data analytics tools
available. Some are free, others with a fee. They are in no
particular order.
Leading Data Analytics Tools
Probably not the first thing that comes to mind,
but Excel is one of the most widely used analytics tools in the world
given its massive installed base. You won’t use it for advanced
analytics to be sure, but Excel is a great way to start learning the
basics of analytics not to mention a useful tool for basic grunt
work. It supports all the important features like summarizing data,
visualizing data, and basic data manipulation. It has a huge user
community with plenty of support, tutorials and free resources.
Because they might be useful…
35
Artificial Intelligence Courses
It's no surprise there's great interest in
artificial intelligence courses: artificial
intelligence (AI) seems to be making its way into literally every
aspect of technology.
In fact, according to Gartner,
"By 2020, AI
technologies will be virtually pervasive in almost every new
software product and service." And IDC
has predicted that worldwide spending on AI will reach $12.5 billion
this year, 59.3 percent more than in 2016. By 2020, revenues could
skyrocket to more than $46 billion.
This growing focus on AI has many IT pros
scrambling to update their knowledge. Courses on artificial
intelligence, machine
learning, neural networks, natural language processing and
related topics are attracting huge numbers of students.
This could be useful…
Guide on
How to Transcribe YouTube Videos Automatically
by Sabrina
I. Pacifici on Oct 12, 2017
Karrar
Haider via Hongkiat: “A lot of us may not know but YouTube
comes with many useful features like translation
for titles and description and YouTube
keyboard shortcuts etc. Similarly, there are ways with which you
can transcribe YouTube videos. As nowadays, the speech recognition
software have improved a lot, you can get a reliable
automatic transcription that can be easily edited to
perfection with little to no effort. It’s quite easy to transcribe
YouTube videos as YouTube automatically
transcribes most of the videos as soon as they are uploaded.
In this post, I’ll show
you 3 ways to get YouTube video transcriptions for free…”
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