Sunday, October 20, 2019


Interesting (and careful) wording.
Clinton email probe finds no deliberate mishandling of classified information
A U.S. State Department investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state has found no evidence of deliberate mishandling of classified information by department employees.
The investigation, the results of which were released on Friday by Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley's office, centered on whether Clinton, who served as the top U.S. diplomat from 2009 to 2013, jeopardized classified information by using a private email server rather than a government one.
The investigation did find that Clinton's use of a private server increased the risk of hacking.
Then-FBI Director James Comey announced five months before the November 2016 election that no charges would be filed against Clinton, but he found her actions "extremely careless."




Making AI understandable. A shame we didn’t do that before using it.
Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game
increasingly, algorithms have begun to arbitrate fairness for us. They decide who sees housing ads, who gets hired or fired, and even who gets sent to jail. Consequently, the people who create them—software engineers—are being asked to articulate what it means to be fair in their code. This is why regulators around the world are now grappling with a question: How can you mathematically quantify fairness?
This story attempts to offer an answer. And to do so, we need your help. We’re going to walk through a real algorithm, one used to decide who gets sent to jail, and ask you to tweak its various parameters to make its outcomes more fair. (Don’t worry—this won’t involve looking at code!)




Does explainable AI preclude copyright?
Copyright Law and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest topics in more or less all legal areas, be it liability, criminal law, legal tech, or even agricultural law. Hence, it is no surprise that AI also raises issues in copyright law, mainly concerning two different questions. The first refers to the creation of works with the help of AI, the second deals with copyright protection of AI itself.
In copyright law, AI raises the question whether works created by it can still be regarded as a personal intellectual creation, which is crucial for acknowledging copyright protection for a work.
The other relevant aspect from a copyright law perspective concerns the protection of AI itself. Under the current legal framework, it is not AI as a concept or as an algorithm that is protected, rather it is AI as a code on the grounds of the EU Software Directive.




Compare and contrast. India vs
TikTok makes education push in India
TkTok, owned by the world’s most valued startup Bytedance, said it’s working with a number of content creators and firms in India to populate the platform with educational videos.
These bite-sized clips cover a range of topics, from school-level science and math concepts to learning new languages. The social app is also featuring videos that offer tips on health and mental awareness, and motivational talks.


(Relared) The US
High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings
On the wall of a classroom that is home to the West Orange High School TikTok club, large loopy words are scrawled across a whiteboard: “Wanna be TikTok famous? Join TikTok club.”
It’s working. “There’s a lot of TikTok-famous kids at our school,” said Amanda DiCastro, who is 14 and a freshman. “Probably 20 people have gotten famous off random things.”
Amanda was referring to a different kind of notoriety: on TikTok, a social media app where users post short funny videos, usually set to music, that is enjoying a surge in popularity among teenagers around the world and has been downloaded 1.4 billion times, according to SensorTower.
The embrace of the app at this school is mirrored on scattered campuses across the United States, where students are forming TikTok clubs to dance, sing and perform skits for the app — essentially drama clubs for the digital age, but with the potential to reach huge audiences.




Question: Radar as in microwave radiation?
What's the deal with radar on a phone anyway?
Google's new Pixel 4 represents the first time that radar has appeared on any mobile phone. On the Pixel 4, it powers a motion sensor that Google uses to drive a suite of features, including gestures to control the device hands-free, and faster face unlock (but there's a big caveat here). Google aptly calls the sensor Motion Sense.
Google says that its technology uses a 60GHz radio frequency, doesn't travel very far and has passed all requisite safety requirements.




Usefulness / cost = No Brainer



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