Étiquette : wtf (Page 5 of 12)

30 septembre 2018 /

Où l’on « apprend » que la culture à un rapport avec l’ADN…

A monk listens to music at a temple in Luang Prabang October 27, 2007. Luang Prabang, a sleepy town in northern Laos situated at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong River, is home to more than 30 Buddhist temples dating back to the 1500's; and has become a popular tourist destination. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995, paving the way for its restoration and preservation.

“What is the sound of you?” This was a question Ancestry, the world’s largest for-profit genealogy company, recently asked its users. Its in-home saliva test can give you an idea of where you’ve come from—but how can you translate that new-found knowledge into something more tangible? Music might be the answer. Ancestry has collaborated with Spotify to determine your musical DNA based on your AncestryDNA test results. “It’s so much more than the stats and the data and the records,”says Vineet Mehra, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Ancestry. “How do we help people experience their culture and not just read about it? Music seemed like an obvious way to do that.”

Source : Spotify can use your Ancestry DNA test to tell your « musical DNA » — Quartzy

Chronologie des médias : un nouvel accord

30 septembre 2018 /

“Les services de Vidéo à la Demande payants de type Netflix ou Amazon Prime devraient être les grands bénéficiaires de ce nouveau texte. Le délai de diffusion entre sortie en salles et arrivée sur les plateformes devrait en effet passer de 36 à 17 mois (15 si dérogation) pour ceux respectant la législation hexagonale et signant notamment une convention avec le CSA”.

Source : Chronologie des médias : un nouvel accord signé ce jeudi – Actus Ciné – AlloCiné

10 septembre 2018 /

“Teens’ preference for face-to-face communication with friends has declined substantially, and their perception of social media’s interference with personal interactions has increased”.

via Common Sense

5 juin 2018 /

“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

29 mai 2018 /

“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

15 mai 2018 /

«Publié le 26 avril dernier sous le titre « Pourquoi Bourdieu avait tort ? », un article signé Laurent Alexandre prétend invalider les travaux du sociologue en neuf paragraphes. Une prouesse rendue possible par l’instrumentalisation de recherches récentes présentées de façon fallacieuse dans un article pseudo-scientifique cachant mal ses objectifs politiques : défendre une certaine vision de l’éducation, en l’occurrence celle du gouvernement actuel – heureux hasard».

Source : Sciences : peut-on publier n’importe quoi dans L’Express ? – Acrimed | Action Critique Médias

8 mai 2018 /

«Software designers face a basic tradeoff here. If the software is programmed to be too cautious, the ride will be slow and jerky, as the car constantly slows down for objects that pose no threat to the car or aren’t there at all. Tuning the software in the opposite direction will produce a smooth ride most of the time—but at the risk that the software will occasionally ignore a real object. According to Efrati, that’s what happened in Tempe in March—and unfortunately the « real object » was a human being».

Source : Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash | Ars Technica

6 mai 2018 /

«As in other countries, the citizens of Rohy will have to work to earn money. This currency will be in the form of cryptocurrency, called RohyCoin. Each payment will be made via the smartphone of the consumer. The trades offered at Rohy are varied. Some are essential to the good life of the country, for example: the police, the doctors, the restorers, the salesmen, or even the water managers. However, you can very well practice another profession, such as web developer or trader».

via Rohy (Kickstarter)

4 mai 2018 /

«We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system. This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password. This is an industry standard.   Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process. We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again».

Source : Keeping your account secure

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