So it’s not just my students thinking about this.

https://www.pogowasright.org/autonomous-vehicles-will-automatically-stop-for-police-roll-down-their-windows-and-unlock-their-doors/

Autonomous Vehicles Will Automatically Stop For Police, Roll Down Their Windows And Unlock Their Doors

Joe Cadillic writes:

The National Institute of Justice, the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum want to give law enforcement real-time access to autonomous vehicles.

Last month, this so-called expert panel identified 17 high-priority law enforcement needs for autonomous vehicles. And as you can imagine some of them are very disturbing.

Read more on MassPrivateI.

I didn’t know this was a “thing.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3va9x/zoom-court-videos-are-making-peoples-darkest-hours-go-viral

Zoom Court Videos Are Making People's Darkest Hours Go Viral

'People's worst day, which is often why they're in court, shouldn't be monetized for a global audience's benefit.'

My AI says it doesn’t need them.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/building-compliance-programs-ai-tools

Building Compliance Programs for AI Tools

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) applications are powerful tools that already have been deployed by companies to improve business performance across the health care, manufacturing, retail, and banking industries, among many others.

… But are these companies also prepared to defend the use of AI tools should there be compliance issues at a later time? What should companies do before launching AI tools and what should companies do to continue to feel confident about compliance while the AI tools simplify and hopefully improve processes? The improper application of AI tools or the improper operation or outcomes from the AI tools can create new types of enterprise risks

… Specific compliance related guidance focused on the use of AI tools in health care is lacking at this time, however, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which became law on January 1, 2021, includes the most significant U.S. legislation concerning AI to date, The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (NAIIA). The NAIIA mandates establishment of various governance bodies, in particular, the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee, which will advise on matters relating to oversight of AI using regulatory and nonregulatory approaches while balancing innovation and individual rights.

Worth reading.

https://hbr.org/2021/03/ai-can-help-companies-tap-new-sources-of-data-for-analytics

AI Can Help Companies Tap New Sources of Data for Analytics

Improvements in technology have dramatically changed what enterprise analytics can do, but predictive and descriptive analytics still require time, expertise, and heaps of data, and often produce only narrow insights. However, AI is making it possible for analytics to automatically incorporate and process important context from a broad array of sources — many of which would have previously required analysts to navigate silos and poorly maintained catalogues. Now, much as Google applications can tell you based on your home address, calendar entries, and map information that it’s time to leave for the airport if you want to catch your flight, companies can increasingly take advantage of contextual information in their enterprise systems.

(Related)

https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/19/its-time-to-abandon-business-intelligence-tools/

It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case? Because BI has failed businesses.

Kind of SciFi, kind of Tom Clancy.

https://taskandpurpose.com/entertainment/military-future-war-training-ai-vr-drones/

Microdrones, AI, and VR glasses: A sneak peek into the future of war and how we’ll train for it

“The military leader, the commander, is a central figure in our common narratives about war.”

So writes Therese Heltberg in her essay “Art, Craft, or Science: How We Think About Military Leadership.” But what goes into the making of that military leader, and how can narrative assist in explaining it?

This is the central question at the heart of the following story we call An Eye For A Storm. Deploying a deliberate blend of narrative and research (known as “Useful Fiction”), it envisions not just a future military mission, but also the future of professional military education. These are key issues to explore as the Australian Defence Force implements its Defense Enterprise Learning Strategy toward planning for 2035 and beyond, to ensure it has the “intellectual edge” in future wars and strategic competition.

Interesting.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-young-political-spaces-of-the-internet

The Young Political Spaces of the Internet

How a new generation has embraced extreme views online.

… Will shutting down radical speech on the Internet prevent the following generation from embracing the extreme politics of the Trump era? And can the Internet itself be used as an effective tool for deradicalization?

The urgency of these questions persuaded a researcher named Joshua Citarella to spend the past four years embedded in what he calls the “young political spaces” of the Internet, gathering a singular body of research on Gen Z’s political appetites. Focussing primarily on platforms like Instagram and messaging apps like Discord, he’s witnessed firsthand a generation quickly learning to embrace hard-core political positions. Fringe beliefs such as anarcho-primitivism or eco-fascism have become familiar ideologies, and figures like Fuentes possess cultish influence. For those who think social media is a recently politicized sphere, Citarella likes to point out that, for Gen Z, being online has always been synonymous with being political.

This is one reason that he argues that recent efforts by tech platforms to shut down radical speech are dangerous and misguided. Worse, he believes the approach has the potential to drive further radicalization by causing extreme communities to burrow into increasingly closed-off platforms.

Perspective. Right services at the right time?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-covid-19-supercharged-the-advertising-triopoly-of-google-facebook-and-amazon-11616163738?mod=djemalertNEWS

How Covid-19 Supercharged the Advertising ‘Triopoly’ of Google, Facebook and Amazon

… The Big Three of digital advertising—Google, Facebook and Amazon—already dominated that sector going into 2020. The pandemic pushed them into command of the entire advertising economy. According to a provisional analysis by ad agency GroupM, the three tech titans for the first time collected the majority of all ad spending in the U.S. last year.

… The triopoly increased their share of the U.S. digital-ad market from 80% in 2019 to a range approaching 90% in 2020, GroupM estimates. It’s a surge that comes as the three face scrutiny and litigation from various agencies at home and abroad over their dominance.

I’ve been suggesting this for years and I still don’t have fiber! I still have a monopoly to deal with...

https://www.wsaz.com/2021/03/18/city-creates-own-internet-system-due-to-service-problems/

City creates own internet system due to service problems

After years of trying to get an internet service provider to invest in the city, South Charleston is investing in itself by installing a fiber optic network to improve internet speed and reliability.

The first installations are being completed this week and the goal is to eventually have fiber in front of every house in the city. This fiber network will then be leased out to multiple internet service providers, such as Frontier and Suddenlink, who can use it to supply a super high speed product.

“They can compete on cost, on service and on quality,” South Charleston Development Authority Executive Director Rick Atkinson said. “The winners in the marketplace are the ones who provide the best service at the best value.”

Continuing my effort to get rid of my students.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/business/resume-filter-articial-intelligence.html

Résumé-Writing Tips to Help You Get Past the A.I. Gatekeepers

No privacy here.

https://www.pogowasright.org/law-firm-wins-fired-lawyers-suit-over-analyzing-cell-phone-data/

Law Firm Wins Fired Lawyer’s Suit Over Analyzing Cell Phone Data

Brian Flood reports:

The law firm Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle didn’t violate the Stored Communications Act by having data extracted from a fired attorney’s smart phone, because only the phone’s internal storage was accessed and copied, a federal court in Illinois said Thursday.

ZRFM paid for attorney David Loughnane’s cell phone and its associated bills. The firm had no written policies on attorneys’ use of their firm-funded phones, and Loughnane used his for both work and personal purposes.

Read more on Bloomberg. The case is Loughnane v. Zukowski Rogers Flood & McArdle, N.D. Ill., No. 1:19-cv-00086, 3/18/21.

[From the article:

An individual’s smartphone or personal computer doesn’t fall within the ambit of the Stored Communications Act when only the data on its local storage drive is accessed, and the device isn’t used to access any data stored on an external Internet-based account or server, the court said.

“While the Seventh Circuit has yet to address this issue, nearly every court to have done so has agreed with this view,” the federal court said. In enacting the law, “Congress was particularly concerned about data stored in the hands of electronic service providers, and did not set out to protect data stored in a personal computer,” the court added.

What do you do when management mucks it up? Send in the AIuditors? (An article worth reading)

https://hbr.org/sponsored/2021/03/is-your-privacy-governance-ready-for-ai

Is Your Privacy Governance Ready for AI?

… Effective oversight requires complex structures most organizations do not have—not just for developers, like data-science teams, but also across teams that may procure AI solutions, such as operations and HR, and core teams, like privacy, that traditionally perform a governance function.

Inadequate governance exposes organizations to unnecessary risks, especially when teams are unaware of which data is restricted under which law. This risk was recently demonstrated when several organizations were sued for violating the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) after sharing data with a third-party fraud-profiling tool. While the CCPA protects the use of data for fraud-detection and security purposes, it does not protect the voluntary transfer of data to a third party.

… AI applications require significant quantities of data to make robust decisions, and often require a balancing of benefits and risks given AI’s impact on stakeholders. By embedding ethics into privacy and data-protection practices, some organizations are putting increased responsibility on the privacy teams to oversee AI. This change requires privacy groups to have a basic understanding of how models are developed and tested so they can evaluate development practices such as bias mitigation.

(Related)

https://theconversation.com/ai-developers-often-ignore-safety-in-the-pursuit-of-a-breakthrough-so-how-do-we-regulate-them-without-blocking-progress-155825

AI developers often ignore safety in the pursuit of a breakthrough – so how do we regulate them without blocking progress?

… Our recent research, carried out alongside our colleague Francisco C. Santos, sought to determine which AI races should be regulated for safety reasons, and which should be left unregulated to avoid stifling innovation. We did this using a game theory simulation.

The regulation of AI must consider the harms and the benefits of the technology. Harms that regulation might seek to legislate against include the potential for AI to discriminate against disadvantaged communities and the development of autonomous weapons. But the benefits of AI, like better cancer diagnosis and smart climate modelling. might not exist if AI regulation were too heavy-handed. Sensible AI regulation would maximise its benefits and mitigate its harms.

Just the “leading edge” of government AI usage?

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/fears-of-digital-dictatorship-as-myanmar-deploys-ai-662449

Fears of 'digital dictatorship' as Myanmar deploys AI

Protesters in Myanmar fear they are being tracked with Chinese facial recognition technology, as spiraling violence and street surveillance spark fears of a "digital dictatorship" to replace ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

… Security forces have focused on stamping out dissent in cities including the capital Naypyidaw, Yangon and Mandalay, where hundreds of CCTV cameras had been installed as part of a drive to improve governance and curb crime.

(Related)

https://www.protocol.com/china/china-facial-recognition?utm_campaign=post-teaser&utm_content=2gqzffnb

China sours on facial recognition tech

State media and new regulations are going after dodgy company practices. Government still gets a free pass.

(Related) When doing business is more important than doing right?

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-russia-iphone-apps-law/

Apple Bent the Rules for Russia—and Other Countries Will Take Note

Russian iPhone buyers will soon be prompted to install software developed in that country, setting a precedent that other authoritarian governments may follow.

Harmless deep fake? Let’s see what the hackers can do with it.

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/lays-sends-soccer-fans-personalized-messages-from-star-messi-using-ai/596910/

Lay's sends soccer fans personalized messages from star Messi using AI

People can visit a Messi Messages website to generate a custom video, following a series of text prompts to guide what Messi says. The site's technology manipulates the movements of the star athlete's lips and then syncs the movements with voiceover audio in real time to make it appear as though Messi is actually speaking.

Lay's Messi Messages draw on a few different pieces of emerging tech, leveraging AI, lip-syncing and facial mapping to provide soccer fans with a synthetic piece of messaging from one of the most popular players in the world. The service summons comparisons to deepfakes, an application of AI that manipulates existing footage or images of people's faces to make it appear as though they're saying things. Deepfakes have raised serious ethical concerns, but also steadily leaked into advertising as brands experiment with new production methods during the pandemic.

The synthetic videos from Messi are informed by a series of text prompts that ask the user to share their name, a friend's name, an activity they want to do with their friend — such as watching a match — and when they should do that activity (i.e. "tonight" or "tomorrow"). After the site generates the video in seconds, users have the option to download the message and share it with others. An infomercial-like spot explains how the technology works and shows Messi saying "It's incredible" in several languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWtxF7wKvQ&t=26s

Perspective.

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2021/03/jpmorgan-ai-lab-jobs

JPMorgan now has 50 people working in its rarefied AI labs

If you want an artificial intelligence job in an investment bank that combines elements of working in academia, you probably want to work in one of the "labs" that leading banks have set up to push the boundaries of AI applications in finance.

JPMorgan has one such lab, which it founded in 2018. It's led by Manuela Veloso, who's also the head of machine learning research at Carnegie Mellon University. In the past year, it's been adding staff to a new lab in London.

… Cohen said the team is working on a visualizations project that looks at the way traders ingest data on their screens and attempts to derive actionable outcomes from the information it contains.

This sounds very similar to the 'Mondrian' project discussed by Veloso at a conference in 2019. By analyzing traders' gaze patterns with respect to trading time series images, Veloso said her team had been able to design a neural net that could decide whether to buy or sell a stock with a 95% accuracy rate.

Two years later, the AI research team seems to have swelled considerably, but it doesn't seem that Mondrian is actually operational yet.

Perspective.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/18/nfl-media-rights-deal-2023-2033-amazon-gets-exclusive-thursday-night.html

NFL finalizes new 11-year media rights deal, Amazon gets exclusive Thursday Night rights

The National Football League has finalized its new 11-year media rights agreement with a pact that will run through 2033 and could be worth over $100 billion.

The league announced Thursday it’s renewing TV rights with all of its existing broadcast partners and adding Amazon Prime Video as an exclusive partner for its Thursday Night Football package. It’s the first time a streaming service will carry a full package of games exclusively. Amazon is paying about $1 billion per year, according to people familiar with the matter. Amazon’s deal runs 10 years and begins in 2023.

Tools. There is a free version.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/quillbots-new-grammar-checker-uses-cutting-edge-ai-to-perfect-your-writing-301250410.html

QuillBot's New Grammar Checker Uses Cutting-Edge AI to Perfect Your Writing

QuillBot announced the release of its highly anticipated grammar checker today. QuillBot's AI-based writing platform now hosts a variety of time-saving tools that help make writing painless for 5 million global monthly active users. This new tool combines spelling, grammar, and punctuation correction tactics backed by powerful AI models, flagging errors and suggesting edits.

For more information, visit www.quillbot.com.

Proving fake data?

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-03-19

For my Forensic and Security students.

https://www.bespacific.com/fbi-releases-the-internet-crime-complaint-center-2020-internet-crime-report/

FBI releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center 2020 Internet Crime Report

“The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report. The 2020 Internet Crime Report includes information from 791,790 complaints of suspected internet crime—an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019—and reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. State-specific statistics have also been released and can be found within the 2020 Internet Crime Report and in the accompanying 2020 State Reports.…”

Improving surveillance every day.

https://gizmodo.com/this-surveillance-company-claims-it-can-track-nearly-an-1846494534

This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time

A defense contractor that claims to have access to motor vehicle location data on a global scale says it wants to use that data to help U.S. federal agencies conduct more efficient spying and military operations.

The Ulysses Group, which offers “cutting edge operational and intelligence services, support, and equipment” to government clients, says it can “access over 15 billion vehicle locations” worldwide every month. This data, which can be viewed “historically” or in real-time, should be used operationally by U.S. agencies, the company says.

A document obtained by the office of Sen. Ron Wyden, which was first reported by Motherboard and shared with Gizmodo, shows Ulysses claims to be able to “remotely geolocate” cars in “nearly any country,” with the exceptions of Cuba and North Korea.

… It’s been well-known for some time that as cars have become increasingly connected to the internet, they have also generated an ever-larger amount of data (this can include location, usage rates, internal media and communications preferences, external road conditions, and so on): Often, this data is being shared continuously with the automaker, with car-parts manufacturers, and sometimes with third parties

… Maybe the worst thing about this whole story is that it’s not entirely clear where a company like Ulysses gets all its data from. Andrea Amico, the founder of Privacy4Cars told Vice that, due to the convoluted nature of vehicle data collection, there are a whole variety of sources where locations might be procured from: “the company that provides the map itself, for instance, would have access to it; the company that provides the infotainment system may have access to it; the company that provides the traffic data may have access to it; the company that provides the parking data may have access to it. Right there and then you’ve got five companies that are getting your location.”

This suggests that they have a technology that can identify pornography (and a clear legal definition) and who can see it.

https://www.makeuseof.com/utah-considering-blocking-pornography-all-new-phones/

Utah Is Considering Blocking Pornography on All New Phones

… Utah lawmakers' official proposal reads that newly-purchased smartphones and tablets would "automatically enable a filter capable of blocking material that is harmful to minors," and that would include pornography. It also states that certain users [Lawmakers? Bob] would be able to disable the filter "for specific content."

A report by the Associated Press reveals that Cox "will carefully consider this bill during the bill signing period." March 25, 2021, is his deadline to sign or veto the bill. Even if Cox does sign it, the bill won't go into effect unless five other states enact similar restrictions.

Some opponents of the bill argue that the filter would be a violation of free speech. On the other hand, supporters cite that this bill is necessary to keep children away from pornography while using mobile devices.

In the eyes of Utah lawmakers, parental controls just aren't enough. Passing this bill would essentially enable parental controls on new devices automatically, erasing the struggle that some parents may have when turning on these filters.

Forced to disclose…

https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/google-to-reveals-what-personal-data.html

Google Reveals What Personal Data Chrome and Its Apps Collect On You

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo called out rival Google for "spying" on users after the search giant updated its flagship app to spell out the exact kinds of information it collects for personalization and marketing purposes.

"After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it," the company said in a tweet. "Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine."

The "privacy nutrition labels” are part of a new policy that went into effect on December 8, 2020, mandating app developers to disclose their data collection practices and help users understand how their personal information is put to use.

The insinuation from DuckDuckGo comes as Google has been steadily adding app privacy labels to its iOS apps over the course of the last several weeks in accordance with Apple's App Store rules, but not before a three-month-long delay that caused most of its apps to go without being updated, lending credence to theories that the company had halted iOS app updates as a consequence of Apple's enforcement.

Not sure I understand this idea. Why not just give everyone $10 Million and then we’d all be rich? (My AI says it has a better use for the money.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/openais-altman-ai-will-make-wealth-to-pay-all-adults-13500-a-year.html

OpenAI’s Sam Altman: Artificial Intelligence will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year

Artificial intelligence will create so much wealth that every adult in the United States could be paid $13,500 per year from its windfall as soon as 10 years from now.

So says Sam Altman, co-founder and president of San Francisco-headquartered, artificial intelligence-focused nonprofit OpenAI.

Perspective. Harder to accommodate than Privacy laws?

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/att-will-count-hbo-max-toward-data-caps-blames-net-neutrality-law.html

AT&T will start counting HBO Max against data limits, blames California net neutrality law

AT&T will no longer exempt viewership of its HBO Max streaming service from data caps after a federal court upheld California’s net neutrality law, the company said in a statement Wednesday.

The company informed customers that it would no longer offer “Data Free TV” on its video apps beginning March 25, according to a copy of the customer notice obtained by CNBC. That means customers must be connected to WiFi to avoid having their streaming count toward their total data caps. The change will extend beyond California, since, AT&T said, “the Internet does not recognize state borders.”

Perspective.

https://www.ft.com/content/9bfda026-df9d-42e4-8679-c26a072e0522

How Stripe became Silicon Valley’s most prized asset

Even the co-founder of Stripe admitted there is nothing obviously attractive or exciting about the digital payments technology that is the focus of his company.

“It’s low-margin . . . It’s very competitive,” said John Collison, who launched Stripe in 2010 with his brother Patrick, in an interview with the Financial Times last week. Stripe’s staff are “the strange and weird woodland creatures who are payments fanatics”, he added.

Silicon Valley’s most prominent start-ups are normally consumer internet ventures such as Facebook and Uber — aggressive, fast-growing companies on a relentless drive for global domination and the huge brand awareness that goes with it. Yet it is Stripe — a name unfamiliar to most outside the tech industry — that now sits atop the list of Silicon Valley’s most prized private companies after investors valued it at $95bn this week.

Stripe’s software makes it simple for any website or app to accept payments, without having to obtain their own licences or strike deals with the many different banks and card operators that the company has already integrated.

… With the internet economy shifting away from advertising and towards ecommerce and payments, Benedict Evans, a tech industry analyst, described Stripe’s opportunity another way: “They are a 3 per cent tax on the future of the internet.”

One of Stripe’s key competitive advantages is doing more with less. It has about 3,000 staff, a third less than Facebook had in 2012 when it went public at a similar valuation. Its online tools are designed to be easy for businesses to adopt without needing a large sales force or support team.

Diversions for shut-ins.

https://www.businessinsider.com/duke-free-online-courses

14 Duke University classes you can take online for free, from machine learning to dog psychology

… On top of Duke's lower-cost online offerings, the school also has a plethora of online courses that are completely free, from introductory courses in machine learning and English composition to highly specialized courses such as behavioral finance and the science behind dogs' emotions. You can access video lectures, readings, and forums without a fee, or pay a one-time $49 fee for a certificate of completion to add to your resume or LinkedIn.

Every election, every reader of social media, looking for people who can be fooled at least some of the time. (Because it’s just too cheap and simple not to do it.)

https://www.bespacific.com/odni-releases-intelligence-community-assessment-of-foreign-threats-to-the-2020-u-s-elections/

ODNI Releases Intelligence Community Assessment of Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Elections

“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today released the declassified Intelligence Community (IC) assessment of foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. federal elections. The document is a declassified version of a classified report that the IC provided to the President, senior Executive Branch officials, and Congressional leadership and intelligence oversight committees on January 7, 2021. “Foreign malign influence is an enduring challenge facing our country,” said Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. “These efforts by U.S. adversaries seek to exacerbate divisions and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions. Addressing this ongoing challenge requires a whole-of-government approach grounded in an accurate understanding of the problem, which the Intelligence Community, through assessments such as this one, endeavors to provide.” Coordinated across the IC, the assessment addresses the intentions and efforts of key foreign actors to influence or interfere with the 2020 U.S. elections and undermine public confidence in the U.S. election process. The assessment builds on the analysis the IC provided to the public and policymakers throughout the 2020 election cycle. Additionally, pursuant to Executive Order 13848(1)(b), the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security today issued an unclassified summary that evaluates the impact of foreign influence or interference efforts on the security and integrity of U.S. election infrastructure. View the full IC Assessment here.”

Would the same level of surveillance of individuals be acceptable?

https://fortune.com/2021/03/16/not-all-a-i-surveillance-is-a-bad-thing/

Not all A.I. surveillance is a bad thing

People are rightfully concerned about A.I.’s role in surveillance and the impact the technology may have on fundamental personal liberties. But there are some places that could use a bit more surveillance. The world’s oceans, for instance.

Even today, once a ship sails beyond the horizon, it enters a world of “radical freedom,” as the author William Langewiesche termed it in his 2005 book The Outlaw Sea. But the freedom that comes with being out of sight is easily abused: for smuggling, human trafficking, overfishing, piracy, and the dumping of garbage and toxic waste.

An example of that lack of accountability washed up on the beaches of Tel Aviv, Israel, last month: globs of tar, the remnants of large crude oil spill from a tanker. It was the worst environmental disaster to hit the country in years. But where had the oil come from? Which of the dozens of ships cruising the Eastern Mediterranean was responsible?

The Israeli government soon named a culprit: a Panamanian-flagged ship called The Emerald that was taking oil from Iran to Syria, in violation of international sanctions. How did the Israeli government single out The Emerald? In part, thanks to its use of an A.I.-enabled software platform created by an Israeli startup called Windward.

Windward’s software tracks every large vessel at sea across the planet and pairs that information with databases on ship ownership, vessel registrations and past journeys, all run through machine-learning models. The software can suss out suspicious behavior as well as identify ships with poor safety and maintenance records.

Talking with the IT world...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/gartner-top-10-data-and-analytics-technology-trends-for-2021/

Gartner: Top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021

While much of the loudest buzz surrounding the impact of COVID-19 was focused on the dramatic shift from on premises to remote work, the pandemic further affected every aspect of the enterprise, which includes data and analytics technology.

… Gartner has now identified 10 trends as "mission-critical investments that accelerate capabilities to anticipate, shift and respond." It recommended that D&A leaders review these trends and consider and apply as necessary. Following is a summary from Gartner of the trends:

Diversions for shut-ins.

https://www.makeuseof.com/free-movie-streaming-sites-no-sign-up/

9 Free Movie Streaming Sites With No Sign Up Requirements

Want to watch a movie without the hassle? Use these sites which are free, legal, and require no registration.