This is the social network from all the 6 movies combined together:
Source : The Star Wars social network
Étiquette : algorithms (Page 12 of 12)
SilverPush’s company policy is to not « divulge the names of the apps the technology is embedded, » meaning that users have no knowledge of which apps are using this technology and no way to opt-out of this practice. As of April of 2015, SilverPush’s software is used by 67 apps and the company monitors 18 million smartphones.
SilverPush’s ultrasonic cross-device tracking was publicly reported as long ago as July 2014. More recently, the company received a new round of publicity when it obtained $1.25 million in venture capital. The CDT letter appears to be the first time the privacy-invading potential of the company’s product has been discussed in detail. SilverPush officials didn’t respond to e-mail seeking comment for this article.
Source : Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC | Ars Technica
It doesn’t try to tally the number by querying the individual accounts of all the people who have posted those “Likes.” Since these accounts sit in databases that run on hard disk, that would take too long. Instead, the company keeps a “Like” count for each photo in a single database cell, and it accesses this single cell as needed. “That’s just one disk access of about ten micro-seconds,” says Instagram engineer Lisa Guo.
Facebook a bien racheté des utilisateurs et non une technologie… !
Source : How Instagram Solved Its Justin Bieber Problem | WIRED
Android apps are more likely than iOS apps to share with a third party personally identifying information such as name (73% of Android apps vs. 16% of iOS apps) and email address (73% vs. 16%). For location data, including geo-coordinates, more iOS apps (47%) than Android apps (33%) share that data with a third party.
CEO Elon Musk, who considers safety a big selling point of Tesla cars, is not too pleased about that.
For months, the founders failed to resolve a flaw in the algorithm, which set up back-to-back jobs for cleaners without accounting for the transit time. Cleaners traveling from Brooklyn to New Jersey would often be allotted 30 minutes to cross Manhattan, for instance, which New Yorkers know is a near-impossible feat. Despite repeated requests from the client services team, which handled complaints from the cleaners, it took months before the engineering team prioritized updating the algorithm.
Pour retrouver sa crédibilité environnementale, la firme allemande va généraliser, comme la plupart des constructeurs, un système de réduction des émissions polluantes sur les diesel : l’AdBlue, un liquide qui limite les oxydes d’azote.
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Ce traitement des gaz d’échappement impose, outre son prix, quelques contraintes. Il est assez encombrant et alourdit le véhicule alors que les constructeurs font la chasse à l’espace perdu et au poids.
En attendant que le régulateur comprenne la nécessité de favoriser les contrôles, de renforcer les contre-pouvoirs, indépendance et rétroingénierie, sont les deux leviers qui demeurent à notre disposition.
Source : Qui nous protégera des logiciels tricheurs ? « InternetActu.net
Secret code now has infiltrated the criminal justice system.
« When you put data into computer and it spits out something, you’d like to know how it did it. »
Source : Secret source code pronounces you guilty as charged | Ars Technica