If the first men to step on the moon had died there, Richard Nixon would have read this haunting speech. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65948-nixon-secret-moon-disaster-speech.html
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Trending Data Science Skills
Demand for data-driven decision makers continues to grow. There’s a projected 15% growth in data science careers and 110,000 new jobs for data-driven decision makers by 2020. According to our analysis of global skills, the most sought-after data science skills include math, statistics, machine learning, data management, statistical programming, and data visualization. Whether you’re looking […]
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Google Contractors Are Secretly Listening To Your Assistant Recordings
A new report from Belgian broadcaster VRT News describes the process by which Google Home recordings end up being listened to by contractors — and the scary part is that it apparently doesn’t take much, if anything, to start a recording. While the recordings are not listened to live, audio clips are sent to subcontractors. The Next Web reports: VRT, with…
Alibaba Claims New Record in AI Language Understanding
An AI program developed by Alibaba has notched up a record-high score on a reading comprehension test. The result shows how machines are steadily improving at handling text and speech. From a report: The new record was set using the Microsoft Machine Reading Comprehension (MS MARCO) data set, which uses real questions that Bing users have asked in the past. The…
How Facebook Fought Fake News About Facebook
Facebook has built tools to track posts on Facebook and WhatsApp that talk about its executives, products, or moves Bloomberg reported on Monday. The company has been, for years, routinely using these tools to “snuff out” posts that it deems to offer untrue characterization of its services or people. From the report: Many companies monitor social media to learn what customers…
In ‘Bold Experiment’, Facebook Creates Independent ‘Oversight Board” For Content Decisions
Facebook is being applauded for a new “bold experiment” in content decision-making by tech journalist Larry Magid, a founding member (for the last 10 years) of what he describes as “the less powerful Facebook Safety Advisory Board, which is composed of safety experts mostly representing nonprofit organizations in several countries…. “We are not empowered to overrule Facebook’s management.”
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Trending Tech Skills
New technologies are changing the way the world works. As a result, governments and organizations are looking for talent with skills that will prepare them for the future. According to our analysis of global skills, demand for technology skills has increased 13% across the globe in the last year. Other important skills like Kubernetes, robotic […]
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Robots To Take 20 Million Jobs, Worsening Inequality, Study Finds
A new study by Oxford Economics, a private British-based research and consulting firm, says robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while boosting overall economic output. “The forecast set to be released Wednesday highlights growing concerns that automation and robots, while offering economic benefits, are disproportionately killing…
YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators, But It Doesn’t Work
YouTube is looking to send a message to content creators who step out of line by disabling ads on videos that infringe on the site’s policies. The punishment is meant to revoke a key source of income, presenting a strong incentive for users to change their behavior. But, as Julia Alexander writes via The Verge, many creators make money through other…