Alim S. GafarPolitics Trump supporters have little trust in societal institutions theconversation.com - Miriam Boon and Andreu Casas Salleras and Ericka Menchen-Trevino and Magdalena Wojcieszak President Donald Trump has a history of disregarding advice from experts, including diplomats, military leaders, trade experts and scientists. Trump …
Alim S. GafarClimate Change A military perspective on climate change could bridge the gap between believers and doubters theconversation.com - Michael Klare As experts warn that the world is running out of time to head off severe climate change, discussions of what the U.S. should do about it are split …
Alim S. GafarTechnology Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance and turned us into a nation of voyeurs The Washington Post - Drew HarwellAmazon’s Ring, Google’s Nest and other Internet-connected cameras — some selling for as little as $59 — have given Americans the tools they need to become a personal security force, and millions of people
Alim S. Gafar Google has released a tool to spot faked and doctored images MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Google, has released an experimental platform called Assembler to help journalists and front-line fact-checkers …
Alim S. Gafar When image trumps ideology: How JFK created the template for the modern presidency theconversation.com - Steven Watts We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time – a man who, in our mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and …
Alim S. GafarMedia Industry Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation theconversation.com - Lisa Fazio When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes – videos that appear real but have actually been created using powerful video …
Alim S. GafarPolitics Real pay data show Trump's 'blue collar boom' is more of a bust for US workers, in 3 charts theconversation.com - Pres. Donald Trump If you thought workers’ hourly pay was finally rising, think again. At first glance, the latest data – which came out on Feb. 7 – look pretty good. …
Alim S. GafarChina6 Billion People's Personal Biometrics Stolen by China for their Quantum Artificial Intelligence Military Program - THE ORGANIZATION theaiorganization.com - The AI Organization China’s Communist Government has extracted over 6 billion peoples biometrics, including facial, voice and personal health data to empower their …
Alim S. GafarTechnology Algorithms might be better than us at predicting whether people will reoffend MIT Technology Review - Charlotte Jee The news: A new study has found that risk-assessment algorithms are sometimes better than people at predicting whether a criminal will be rearrested …
Alim S. GafarLifestyle A woman's side-by-side images show the reality behind the 'perfect' Instagram photo Insider - Samantha Grindell Sara Puhto, 23, posts "Instagram versus Reality" photos of herself on her social media. She started posting photos of her workout routines and fitness …
Alim S. GafarMargrethe Vestager Automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, says EU digital chief TNW - Thomas MacaulayThe EU’s digital and competition chief has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, as the technology fails to meet the regulation’s requirement for consent. Margrethe Vestager, the European
Alim S. GafarDonald Trump Trump campaign manager deletes dramatic Air Force One photo after people point out it's from 2004 CNN - By Daniel Dale, CNNWashington (CNN) — President Donald Trump's campaign manager deleted a tweet featuring a dramatic photo of Air Force One at the Daytona 500 after users pointed out that the shot was from President George
Alim S. GafarCoronavirus Big Data Won't Save You From Coronavirus yahoo.com - David Fickling (Bloomberg Opinion) -- How often do you see a piece of economic or financial information revised upward by 45%? And how reliable would you regard a …
Alim S. GafarInvesting Study Proves Past Results Don’t Predict Future Results Forbes - Lawrence CarrelAt the end of every commercial for a financial-services firm they say a disclaimer so familiar that it goes in one ear and out the other: "Past results are no guarantee of future performance." This is
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Alim S. GafarU.S. Politics Secret Service has paid rates as high as $650 a night for rooms at Trump’s properties The Washington Post - David A. FahrentholdTrump’s company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that. At Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, the Secret Service was charged the $650 rate dozens of times in 2017, and a rate,
Alim S. GafarFederal Election Commission Paying the President propublica.org Federal government spending is incomplete because many government agencies have actively fought requests to disclose spending at Trump properties. …
Alim S. GafarTechnology Treat us like something between a telco and a newspaper, says Facebook's Zuckerberg Reuters - Reuters EditorialMUNICH (Reuters) - Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook (FB.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg told global leaders
Alim S. GafarBusiness Roboflow: Popular autonomous vehicle data set contains critical flaws VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersA machine learning model’s performance is only as good as the quality of the data set on which it’s trained, and in the domain of self-driving vehicles, it’s critical this performance isn’t adversely by
Alim S. GafarPolitics When presidential campaigns end, what happens to the leftover money? theconversation.com - Richard Briffault Andrew Yang and Michael Bennet have ended their campaigns for president. What happens to the money they have raised, but not yet spent? The amounts …
Alim S. GafarBusiness Deepfakes and deep media: A new security battleground VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersDeepfakes — media that takes a person in an existing image, audio recording, or video and replaces them with someone else’s likeness using AI — are multiplying quickly. That’s troubling not only because
Alim S. GafarLong-form Journalism Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud? The New Yorker - Lauren CollinsPeople in France remember the summer of 1997 for the deaths of Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and Jeanne Calment. The first became a household name by marrying into royalty; the second, by caring for world’s
Alim S. GafarCollege & University Indiana University accidentally shares grades of 100,000 students | EdScoop edscoop.com - Colin Wood Indiana University has taken down an online tool that allowed users to calculate grade point averages after the university’s newspaper discovered it …
Alim S. Gafar EXCLUSIVE: The NYPD Is Using Sealed Mug Shots in Its Facial Recognition Program Medium - Michael Hayes Instead of being purged, old mug shots are being fed into NYC databases In 1976, the state of New York introduced a law that says if a case “is …
Alim S. GafarLong-form Journalism The high cost of a free coding bootcamp The Verge - Zoe SchifferBethany Surber was sleeping on friends’ couches and living out of her car when she first heard about Lambda School, a buzzy coding bootcamp that promised world-class instructors and a top-tier curriculum.
Alim S. GafarBusiness Square acquires deepfake research firm Dessa VentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSquare, the financial services and mobile payment company headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, today announced that it’s acquiring Toronto-based AI research startup Dessa (formerly known as DeepLearni.ng)
Alim S. GafarSurveillance Facial-recognition tech may have value, but real-time surveillance goes too far - The Boston Globe bostonglobe.com - Editorial Board Boston Police don’t use facial-recognition software, according to Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a spokesman. However, police in many cities, …
Alim S. GafarNews The Killer Algorithms Nobody’s Talking About foreignpolicy.com - Arthur Holland Michel This past fall, diplomats from around the globe gathered in Geneva to do something about killer robots. In a result that surprised nobody, they …
Alim S. GafarArtificial Intelligence Do Coercive Reeducation Technologies Actually Work? lareviewofbooks.org - By David Kaye Artificial intelligence is emerging as an important element in almost every aspect of human life. Yet little has been said or done about the overall …
