“An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its citizens,” the Intercept reports. The OpenPower Foundation — a nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives with the aim of trying to “drive innovation” — has set up a collaboration between IBM, Chinese company Semptian,…
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Florida’s DMV Made $77 Million — By Selling Off Personal Information
Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles “made $77 million in 2017 by selling drivers’ personal information to more than 30 private companies, including marketing firms, bill collectors, insurance companies and data brokers…” according to local news site. schwit1 shared this report from WPTV:
A Florida woman is blaming the state government for an onslaught of robocalls and direct mail offers…
Project Scarlett is the Next Xbox Console, Launching in Holiday 2020
Project Scarlett is the next Microsoft video game console. Phil Spencer, executive vice president of gaming at the company, announced the hardware during Microsoft’s E3 2019 press briefing. From a report: “The console should be optimized for one thing and one thing only,” said Spencer, “gaming.” Spencer explained the console has been developed by the team responsible for the Xbox One…
How to celebrate World Oceans Day 2019
World Oceans Day is Saturday, June 8. Celebrate! Plan or find an event. Participate on social media. Or … just go to the beach. Some ideas for participating here. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/how-to-celebrate-world-oceans-day…
Hulu Has 82M Viewers, and Most of Them Are Seeing Ads
Hulu has broken out some new total audience figures and revealed just how many of those total viewers are watching the company’s ad-supported streaming service. From a report: Peter Naylor, senior vice president and head of advertising sales at Hulu, said that his company counts 82 million overall viewers, and added that nearly 70% of those viewers are on Hulu’s $5.99-per-month…
5 essential L&D themes from Coursera Partner Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference in London, where we brought together academic, business and tech pioneers in a two-day celebration of learning. Amongst guest speakers were Thomas Friedman, Yale University, the Abu Dhabi Dhabi School of Government, AXA, Novartis, Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng, and many more. Throughout the […]
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