Even if you ‘have nothing to hide.’
https://www.bespacific.com/how-to-clean-up-your-social-media-accounts-without-deleting-them/
How to Clean Up Your Social Media Accounts Without Deleting Them
Gizmodo: “There are many reasons to avoid wanting a social media digital paper trail of your entire life. Maybe there are posts there you think your new employer won’t like, or that your new partner’s parents won’t like, or even ones that you don’t believe in anymore. But wiping the slate clean and starting again is only one of your options—you can still tidy up your existing accounts without deleting them. Take a glance back at your social media missives from last year, or five years ago, or 10 years ago, to see some reasons why you might want to cut certain posts from the record. Bad takes, painful memories, embarrassing moments…if Snapchat has taught us anything, it’s perhaps that social media should never have been a permanent, fixed record of our thoughts and actions in the first place. If you’re ready to let the past die, Kylo Ren-style—or at least have it lightly edited—then these are your options on three of the biggest social networks…”
Covid helps identify something else that must change. I wonder how many small things could be automated?
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/iso-warning-covid19-threat/?&web_view=true
ISO Warning as #COVID19 Threatens Re-Certification Audits
Hundreds of thousands of ISO certifications are in danger of lapsing because auditors haven’t been able to visit organizations’ premises during the pandemic, according to InfoSaaS.
… In the UK, re-certification audits must be undertaken within six months of the anniversary of an ISO certificate being issued or else it should be suspended and a new assessment required, InfoSaaS said.
However, auditors usually have to visit premises in person, especially if organizations are still using manual spreadsheet-based processes for compliance, the software company added. It argued that this approach requires face-to-face explanation and cross-referencing.
When was the last time you backed up your email?
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/export-emails-outlook/
How to Export Emails From Outlook
If you're resetting your computer, changing your email app, or just playing around with something that could affect your emails, you may want to make a backup of your Microsoft Outlook emails through exporting them.
Outlook allows you to export your messages in various formats. We'll show you which one to use, depending on how you plan to use the exported emails (including working with them outside of Outlook).
This is not yet mandatory.
AI Health Startup Can Get 15 Vital Signs Via Your Phone Camera
Look into your camera for thirty seconds. You’ve just given your phone enough information to check your heart rate, oxygen saturation, breathing rate, heart rate variability, blood pressure, stress level, and ten other health indicators at medical grade levels of reliability.
Now imagine doing that 50 times a day without even thinking about it.
And having the results funneled to your personal medical AI engine to monitor you for any signs of poor health, ready to notify your physician if anything looks out of the ordinary. Like higher temperature, which might indicate a fever, flu ... or Covid-19.
That’s part of the vision of Binah.ai, an Israeli health startup that uses high-end artificial intelligence and low-end cameras built into all our phones and laptops to continuously monitor health. Including, soon, blood alcohol levels and maybe even glucose, cholesterol, and hemoglobin levels.
The “Let’s all wear red coats and march in a line” school has been dead for centuries.
DARPA Wants Wargame AI To Never Fight Fair
Northrop Grumman is building an AI designed to find new strategies to break virtual opponents. Future AI tools, based on this research, could help human commanders break opponents in real battles.
The contract is part of DARPA’s Gamebreaker program, which wants to turn the design considerations of modern strategy games on their head, using AI to find every unfair advantage hidden in the game.
The Greeks invented AI? The logic of logic? Amusing read.
Aristotle and the chatbot: how ancient rules of logic could make artificial intelligence more human
Maybe…
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/354050
3 of the Best Uses for AI in Our New Normal
Is it Facebook’s job (is it even possible) to fact check every post?
https://www.bespacific.com/avaaz-report-facebooks-algorithm-a-major-threat-to-public-health/
Avaaz Report Facebook’s Algorithm: A Major Threat to Public Health
“In this report, Avaaz uncovers global health misinformation spreading networks on Facebook that reached an estimated 3.8 billion views in the last year spanning at least five countries — the United States, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy. Many of these networks, made up of both websites and Facebook pages, have spread vaccination and health misinformation on the social media platform for years. However, some did not appear to have had any focus on health until Feb. 2020 when they started covering the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thoughtful. Worth reading.
What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech?
Perspective.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/big-tech-business-domination.html
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights
… A rally in technology stocks elevated the S&P 500 stock index to a record high on Tuesday even as the pandemic crushes the broader economy. The stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook, the five largest publicly traded companies in America, rose 37 percent in the first seven months this year, while all the other stocks in the S&P 500 fell a combined 6 percent, according to Credit Suisse.
Those five companies now constitute 20 percent of the stock market’s total worth, a level not seen from a single industry in at least 70 years. Apple’s stock market value, the highest of the bunch, is nearly $2 trillion — double what it was just 21 weeks ago.
(Related)
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/8/18/the-ecommerce-surge
The ecommerce surge
Both the UK and (today) the USA have given official statistics on how ecommerce and retail have changed during lockdown. The headline numbers are pretty dramatic. The UK went from 20% ecommerce penetration to over 30% in two months, and the USA from 17% to 22%.
I try to keep up.
5 emerging tech terms you should know from Gartner's 25th Hype Cycle report
Health Passports are shifting digital twin tech to humans and the composable enterprise is making it possible for business to stay nimble during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 influenced many of the 30 technologies in Gartner's 25th Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report.
Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner, said that this was the first time in the history of the report that a new piece of technology reached 20% market penetration in less than a year. China and India are using Health Passport mobile apps to indicate the level of infection risk of the holder. Red is a confirmed case of COVID-19; yellow means the person should be in quarantine; and green means free to travel.
"Because of the population in those countries, this is the first time that we've had a technology that is less than six months old and already has 20% market penetration," he said.
Health Passports are part of the larger citizen twin/digital me trend. Gartner identified five overall trends for this hype cycle report, but the interesting bits are in the details. The five terms you should know from the report are:
Citizen twins
Composable enterprise
Low-cost single board computer at the edge
Secure access service edge
Authenticated provenance
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/08/13-big-topics-in-2020-21-practical-ed.html
13 Big Topics in the 2020-21 Practical Ed Tech Handbook
… the 2020-21 version of my Practical Ed Tech Handbook is now available to download for free. This year's version of this annual publication contains 64 pages of information on a wide range of educational technology tools. The table of contents for the 2020-21 Practical Ed Tech Handbook is copied below. To get your copy, head to this page on PracticalEdTech.com.
1.
Communication with students and parents - page 5
2.
Creating Blogs & Websites - page 9
3.
Web search strategies - page 17
4.
Digital citizenship - page 24
5.
Video creation and flipped lessons - page 26
6.
Audio recording and publishing - page 37
7.
Backchannels and informal assessment - page 39
8.
Digital portfolios - page 42
9.
Augmented and Virtual Reality - page 44
10.
Intro to Programming and Makerspaces - page 47
11.
Accessibility Tools - page 51
12.
Ten Time-saving ways for teachers to use tech - page 57
13.
Remote Instruction Tools and Strategies - page 59
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