MIT Technology Review: “..a new digital forensics technique promises to protect President Trump, other world leaders, and celebrities against such deepfakes—for the time being, at least. The new method uses machine learning to analyze a specific individual’s style of speech and movement, what the researchers call a “softbiometric signature.” The researchers, from UC Berkeley and… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2019
Reintroducing Natalia Ginzburg, One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century
New York Times – “The voice is instantly, almost violently recognizable — aloof, amused and melancholy. The metaphors are sparse and ordinary; the language plain, but every word load-bearing. Short sentences detonate into scenes of shocking cruelty. Even in middling translations, it is a style that cannot be subsumed; Natalia Ginzburg can only sound like… Continue Reading
How Amazon benefits from counterfeit books
Vox – “Amazon has a counterfeit book problem. But it isn’t really a problem for Amazon itself, reporter David Streitfeld argued in an investigation published in the New York Times on Sunday. In fact, publishers and authors whose books are photocopied or otherwise plagiarized just come to rely on Amazon even more. Streitfeld starts by… Continue Reading
2019 IPR Disinformation in Society Report
Institute for Public Relations -“Sixty-three percent of Americans view disinformation—or deliberately misleading or biased information—as a “major” problem in society, on par with gun violence (63%) and terrorism (66%), according to the 2019 Institute for Public Relations Disinformation in Society Report. The 2019 IPR Disinformation in Society Report surveyed 2,200 adults with Morning Consult to… Continue Reading
How to Schedule Your Messages, Emails, and Tweets to Go at designated times
gizmodo – “Thanks to the internet and all the apps and services that run on top of it, we can now ping someone on the other side of the world instantly—but that person doesn’t necessarily want to hear from you in the middle of the night. The same goes for social media sharing, because the… Continue Reading
Elder Resources on the Internet 2019
New via LLRX – Elder Resources on the Internet 2019 – The current estimated U.S. population 65 and older has reached a new milestone: 53,710,125 and growing daily. To provide come context to this number, “50 million seniors is more than the population of 25 states combined…” By 2030, the estimated population of those over 65… Continue Reading
This is how Google’s Chrome lets the cookies track you, imagined in real life
A Washington Post video story – This is how Google’s Chrome lets the cookies track you, imagined in real life – “Chrome has become like spyware for the company, allowing more tracker cookies than any other browser. The Post’s Geoffrey A. Fowler imagines how that might feel in real life, and gives advice for more… Continue Reading
The Best Machine Learning Resources
Medium – The Best Machine Learning Resources – “A compendium of resources for crafting a curriculum on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.” Continue Reading
Google is the biggest snoop of all on your computer or cell phone
The Philadelphia Inquirer – “You open your browser to look at the Web. Do you know who is looking back at you? Over a recent week of Web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser… Continue Reading
Global (United States, EU and China) DNA Sequencer Market Research Report 2019-2025
Global (United States, European Union and China) DNA Sequencer Market Research Report 2019-2025 – “In 2019, the market size of DNA Sequencer is million US$ and it will reach million US$ in 2025, growing at a CAGR of from 2019; while in China, the market size is valued at xx million US$ and will increase… Continue Reading
New tool by Harvard Law lets people explore language usage in caselaw abajournal.com
ABAJournal: “Parsing 6.7 million federal and state cases and 12 billion words, a new tool allows the public to explore the use of language over 360 years of caselaw. Released [June 19, 2019], “Historical Trends” was built by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab and is free to use. “I think it’s a good… Continue Reading
Rice Is for Dinner, Not for iPhone Repair
iFixit: “Rice can transform an economy, save a boring meal, and stop winter drafts. One thing it absolutely, positively cannot do is save a wet cell phone. In fact, submerging your phone in rice makes the problem worse, especially if it’s still powered on. Say it with us: Rice is a food, not a tool.… Continue Reading
