“Waymo, la filiale d’Alphabet spécialisée dans les voitures autonomes, veut importer en Europe son service de robots taxis, après son lancement aux Etats-Unis prévu cette année”.
Source : Après les USA, Waymo veut lancer ses robots taxis en Europe
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“Three main factors determine what you see in your Instagram feed:
- Interest: How much Instagram predicts you’ll care about a post, with higher ranking for what matters to you, determined by past behavior on similar content and potentially machine vision analyzing the actual content of the post.
- Recency: How recently the post was shared, with prioritization for timely posts over weeks-old ones.
- Relationship: How close you are to the person who shared it, with higher ranking for people you’ve interacted with a lot in the past on Instagram, such as by commenting on their posts or being tagged together in photos.
Beyond those core factors, three additional signals that influence rankings are:
- Frequency: How often you open Instagram, as it will try to show you the best posts since your last visit.
- Following: If you follow a lot of people, Instagram will be picking from a wider breadth of authors so you might see less of any specific person.
- Usage: How long you spend on Instagram determines if you’re just seeing the best posts during short sessions, or it’s digging deeper into its catalog if you spend more total time browsing”.
“People say nothing has changed: that there is still mass surveillance. That is not how you measure change. Look back before 2013 and look at what has happened since. Everything changed. The government and corporate sector preyed on our ignorance. But now we know. People are aware now. People are still powerless to stop it but we are trying. The revelations made the fight more even” – Edward Snowden.
Source : Edward Snowden: ‘The people are still powerless, but now they’re aware’ | US news | The Guardian
“ « We’ve never been in the data business », Apple CEO Tim Cook told NPR on Monday, responding to a report that Facebook struck agreements giving Apple and other device makers access to Facebook users’ personal information”.
Source : Apple Requested ‘Zero’ Personal Data In Deals With Facebook, CEO Tim Cook Says : NPR
“After connecting to Facebook, the BlackBerry Hub app was able to retrieve detailed data on 556 of Mr. LaForgia’s friends, including relationship status, religious and political leanings and events they planned to attend. Facebook has said that it cut off third parties’ access to this type of information in 2015, but that it does not consider BlackBerry a third party in this case”.
Source : Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends – The New York Times
“Facial recognition software used by the UK’s biggest police force has returned false positives in more than 98 per cent of alerts generated, The Independent can reveal, with the country’s biometrics regulator calling it “not yet fit for use”. The Metropolitan Police’s system has produced 104 alerts of which only two were later confirmed to be positive matches, a freedom of information request showed. In its response the force said it did not consider the inaccurate matches “false positives” because alerts were checked a second time after they occurred”.
Source : Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology 98% inaccurate, figures show | The Independent
“In one particularly brazen example, ads were run promoting both a “Pro-Beyonce Protest Rally” and an “Anti-Beyonce Protest Rally” scheduled for the same time time and place following the controversy over the artist’s performance at the 2016 Super Bowl. The pro-Beyoncé ad was targeted at users designated as having African American behaviors. The anti-Beyoncé ad was targeted narrowly at people who had studied to become a police officer or whose job title matched a list of law enforcement or military titles, including officer, colonel, major general (United States), master sergeant, commander (United States), sergeant, brigadier general, petty officer, chief petty officer, lieutenant commander, squadron leader, 911 dispatcher or rear admiral”.
Source : #BlueLivesMatter and Beyoncé: Russian Facebook ads hit hot-button US issues | US news | The Guardian
“Le logo de SenseTime est rarement visible, même en Chine, où l’entreprise est pourtant la plus active. Sa technologie se trouve cependant derrière nombre de logiciels et d’applications populaires. Suning, un vendeur de produits électroménagers chinois à succès, a lancé l’année dernière des magasins autonomes, sans vendeurs. Le paiement par reconnaissance faciale y est possible grâce à SenseTime. Le spécialiste de l’IA aide aussi l’opérateur du métro de Shanghaï à analyser les flux de passagers.Mais le chiffre d’affaires de SenseTime provient essentiellement d’applications moins impressionnantes. L’entreprise fournit la technologie de reconnaissance faciale des principaux constructeurs chinois de smartphones – Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi et Vivo”.
Source : SenseTime, la start-up chinoise en pointe dans la reconnaissance faciale
“Microsoft has been rapidly investing in open source technology since Satya Nadella took over the CEO role. Microsoft has open sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. Microsoft also partnered with Canonical to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10, and acquired Xamarin to assist with mobile app development”.
Source : Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub – The Verge
“Dans la course à la mobilité autonome, Sion est toujours en tête grâce à une nouvelle première mondiale franchie ces jours dans les rues de la capitale. Fortes d’une technologie développée par Siemens, Valère et Tourbillon sont désormais capables de traverser des feux de signalisation. «Nous avons six mois d’avance sur le reste du monde», s’enthousiasme Philippe Varone, président de la Ville de Sion. Sur la Suisse aussi, où d’autres projets du même type sont expérimentés à Marly ou Cossonay”.
Source : Plus rien n’arrête les navettes, sauf les feux rouges