For Null, a full-time mum who lives in southern Virginia in the US, frustrations don’t end with booking plane tickets. She’s also had trouble entering her details into a government tax website, for instance. And when she and her husband tried to get settled in a new city, there were difficulties getting a utility bill set up, too.
Source : BBC – Future – These unlucky people have names that break computers
Guess the Correlation. How good are you at guessing correlation coefficients from scatter plots? Test your skills!
Source : Guess the Correlation
How much of our choice of profession depends on who our parents are? Parents pass on their genes, set an example, provide opportunities, and give advice to either aim for or steer clear of their own lines of work. In the end, do their children end up in the same type of job? Do siblings choose the same occupation? And is this more or less true for different professions ?
Source : Do jobs run in families? | Blog | Research at Facebook
Dans le cadre du dispositif de réponse graduée de la Hadopi (lutte contre la contrefaçon sur internet) et dans plusieurs enquêtes pénales dont l’une visait des faits de pédopornographie, un abonné de la société NC NUMERICABLE a été mis en cause à tort de manière répétée pendant deux ans.
Identifié 1 531 fois pour délit de contrefaçon et inculpé 7 fois, cet abonné a en outre fait l’objet de nombreuses perquisitions à son domicile et de plusieurs saisies de ses équipements informatiques.
Via CNIL
Well, it’s no prank. Now, iPhone users can download Peeple from the App Store.
Source : Peeple Wasn’t a Prank: “Yelp for Humans” Now Available on iPhones | Re/code
Creative Commons France a lancé un pilote avec Ascribe —projet qui utilise la technologie du blockchain — pour vous permettre de vous enregistrer comme auteur et d’indiquer les conditions de la licence que vous avez sélectionnée.
Ascribe vous permet de:
1. Enregistrer votre oeuvre sur le blockchain, accompagnée de votre nom et d’autres informations relatives à l’œuvre.
2. Enregistrer les conditions de la licence Creative Commons choisie.
3. Établir l’antériorité de votre œuvre (en cas de litige).
4. Suivre les utilisations qui sont faites de votre œuvre pour s’assurer de leur concordance avec la licence choisie.
Source : OPTION:Enregistrer votre oeuvre sur le blockchain | Creative Commons France
These walls have always been quite porous thanks to VPNs. The only way to stop it would be for Google to simply stop allowing people to access its search engine via a VPN. That seems unlikely. But with Netflix leading the way in blocking access via VPNs, the Internet may yet fracture and localize.
Source : In Europe, You’ll Need a VPN to See Real Google Search Results | WIRED
After an extraordinarily close contest, Google’s artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has beaten Lee Sedol, one of the world’s top players, in the first game of their historic five-game match at Seoul’s Four Seasons hotel.
Source : Google’s AI Wins First Game in Historic Match With Go Champion | WIRED
A new internally-developed tool, dubbed “Bandito,” allows editors to enter different article versions with varying headlines, images and teaser text into its content management system. The technology then detects which version readers are clicking or tapping on more, and automatically serves that version more frequently on the homepage and other areas of the Post’s site.
Source : Washington Post’s ‘Bandito’ Tool Optimizes Content For Clicks – WSJ
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