« Over 170,000 visitors to this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics will be able to have their faces scanned and recreated on the facade of a building as part of an installation by London designer Asif Khan ». (via Asif Khan designs a “Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for Sochi)
Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 407 of 635)
« What’s new here is the scale and the sophistication of the intelligence agency’s ability to get into computers and networks to which no one has ever had access before » (via N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers – NYTimes.com)
Selon les prévisions du cabinet McKinsey, les objets connectés devraient créer entre 2 700 et 6 200 milliards de dollars de valeur ajoutée à l’économie mondiale d’ici à 2025. Un calcul qui prend, entre autres, en compte les économies d’énergie, les créations d’emplois et les retours sur investissement permis par ces nouveaux produits.
Today, the web giant announced that it’s spending $3.2 billion to acquire Nest, a successful home hardware tech startup founded by Tony Fadell, one of the fathers of the Apple iPod.
« Google can identify and transcribe all the views it has of street numbers in France in less than an hour, thanks to a neural network that’s just as good as human operators. Now its engineers reveal how they developed it ». (via How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View | MIT Technology Review)
Visualize the whole Internet with an app (par CNNMoney)
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Lors de sa visite à la Maison Blanche, mercredi, l’homme à la tête du FBI, James Comey, s’est fortement opposé aux propositions de réformes mises en avant par un groupe d’experts mandatés par Barack Obama.
J’ai été agressée dans une voiture Uber par des taxis en grève près d’un aéroport de Paris : vitres brisées, pneus crevés, véhicule vandalisé et mains en sang
Typically you have to commit a crime before you are penalized for that crime, Cukier points out. However, maybe Raskolnikov gets a knock at his door. It’s a social worker arriving to offer services. “We’d like to help you.” Of course, this kind of intervention has its costs. Raskolnikov would become stigmatized in the eyes of his peers, or his school teachers. And after all, he hasn’t done anything wrong yet. Data analysis might tell us that he is likely to kill, but doesn’t he still have free will?