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Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines – The Washington Post

January 24, 2020

A rather worrisome article, with a great quote: “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”

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But the perils of increasingly intimate supervision — and the subtle way it can mold how people act — have also led some to worry whether anyone will truly know when all this surveillance has gone too far. “Graduates will be well prepared … to embrace 24/7 government tracking and social credit systems,” one commenter on the Slashdot message board said. “Building technology was a lot more fun before it went all 1984.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/

Locations — Ladurée | Restaurant, Tea Room and Macaron Specialist

January 24, 2020

https://www.laduree.us/locations

Fooling Big Brother – As face-recognition technology spreads, so do ideas for subverting it | Science and technology | The Economist

January 23, 2020

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In 2010, for instance, as part of a thesis for a master’s degree at New York University, an American researcher and artist named Adam Harvey created “cv [computer vision] Dazzle”, a style of make-up designed to fool face recognisers. It uses bright colours, high contrast, graded shading and asymmetric stylings to confound an algorithm’s assumptions about what a face looks like. To a human being, the result is still clearly a face. But a computer—or, at least, the specic algorithm Mr Harvey was aiming at—is ba ed. …
An even subtler idea was proposed by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Indiana University Bloomington, and Alibaba, a big Chinese information-technology rm, in a paper published in 2018. It is a baseball cap tted with tiny light-emitting diodes that project infra-red dots onto the wearer’s face. Many of the cameras used in face-recognition systems are sensitive to parts of the infra-red spectrum. Since human eyes are not, infra-red light is ideal for covert trickery.
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https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/08/15/as-face-recognition-technology-spreads-so-do-ideas-for-subverting-it

90377 Sedna – Wikipedia

January 23, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna

10th planet!

Podcast – Cat is out of the bag…

January 22, 2020

https://newsroom.cnb.com/en/business/exit-strategy/mitchell-kaneff-next-gen-family-business-leaders.html

Walking in Memphis – Wikipedia

January 20, 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_in_Memphis

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“Walking in Memphis” is a song composed and originally recorded by American singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, for whom it remains his signature song
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction

January 20, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03951-0

We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it | New Scientist

January 20, 2020

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191814-we-may-finally-know-what-causes-alzheimers-and-how-to-stop-it/
gum disease – Alz connection

In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?

January 18, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/in-the-age-of-ai-is-seeing-still-believing

Viva la Vida – Wikipedia

January 18, 2020

Coldplay
Viva la Vida – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_la_Vida