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Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google
▻https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/facebook-banking

Backlash swelled this morning after Facebook’s aspirations in financial services were blown out of proportion by a Wall Street Journal report that neglected how the social network already works with banks. Facebook spokesperson Elisabeth Diana tells TechCrunch it’s not asking for credit card transaction data from banks and it’s not interested in building a dedicated banking feature where you could interact with your accounts. It also says its work with banks isn’t to gather data to power ad (...)

#JPMorgan_Chase #Facebook #Messenger #WeChat #algorithme #bot #banque #BigData #data-mining

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6月14日のツイート
▻http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-150614

Top story: Sidechains And Lightning, The New New Bitcoin | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2015/06/13/dow…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at 02:45:57

Top story: WATCH: Video of late night shootout at Dallas Police headquarters in… www.rawstory.com/2015/06/watch-…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at 00:20:51

4月16日のツイート
▻http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-150416

via @hanayuu twitter.com/AD790824/statu… posted at 10:54:18

Papier is out! paper.li/ChikuwaQ/13277… Stories via @radicalcinema @inka3396815 posted at 09:17:12

Top story: L’algorithme du gouvernement sera intrusif et inefficace. On vous le… rue89.nouvelobs.com/2015/04/15/lal…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at 08:50:51

Top story: Keeping Your Car Safe From Electronic Thieves www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/sty…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at 05:14:00

Top story: Sources: Yahoo In Talks To Buy Foursquare | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2015/04/15/sou…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ?s=tnp posted at (...)

Google Unveils The Cartographer, Its Indoor Mapping Backpack | TechCrunch

▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/04/google-unveils-the-cartographer-its-indoor-mapping-backpack

▻http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_20140808_161934-motion.gif?w=399&h=540

If you have been following the development of Google Maps over the years, you are probably familiar with the Trekker, the backpack that includes a complete Street View camera setup for mapping anything from hikes into the Grand Canyon to walks through penguin colonies in Antarctica. Today, a new backpack is joining Google’s mapping tools: the Cartographer for indoor mapping.

The Cartographer uses a process called “simultaneous localization and mapping” (SLAM), a technique that’s typically used for mapping new locations and that Google is now putting to use to map anything from hotels to museums.

#cartographie #google

Cory Doctorow: Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/09/worse-than-nothing

One thing we know about audiences is that they aren’t very interested in hearing excuses about why they can’t buy the media they want, when they want it, in the format they want to buy it in. Study after study shows that overseas downloading of U.S. TV shows drops off sharply when those shows are put on the air internationally. That is, people just want to watch the TV their pals are talking about on the Internet—they’ll pay for it if it’s for sale, but if it’s not, they’ll just get it for free. Locking users out doesn’t reduce downloads, it reduces sales.

Digital-lock vendors will tell you that their wares aren’t perfect, but they’re “better than nothing.” But the evidence is that digital locks are much worse than nothing. Industries that make widespread use of digital locks see market power shifting from creators and investors to intermediaries. They don’t reduce piracy. And customers who run into frustrations with digital locks are given an incentive to learn how to rip off the whole supply chain.

If you’re a publisher, label, or studio, the answer is simple: don’t let companies sell your goods with digital locks on them. And if a company refuses to sell your goods unless they can put their locks on your products? Well, you can be pretty sure that those locks aren’t there for your benefit.

It’s harder if you’re a creator, because many of the biggest investors have bought into the idea of selling with DRM or not at all. When it comes down to negotiating DRM, you just have to make a decision about whether you’re willing to let your creative work be put in some tech company’s jail in order to make your investors happy, or whether you’ll keep shopping for a saner, better investor.

#copyright #téléchargement #offre_legale

Disrupting Democracy | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/08/disrupting-democracy

Republics work, direct democracies don’t, and technology won’t fix or change that. Relying on direct democracy because your republic isn’t working is tantamount to pushing your car to your destination because the engine is shot. I occasionally encounter techno-utopians who suggest that all major American political decisions should be put to direct online votes, a la John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider: the idea makes me cringe and plot my escape route back to Canada.

#élections #démocratie_directe #vote

Atlantic.Net Launches $0.99/Month SSD-Based Servers To Challenge DigitalOcean | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/atlantic-net-launches-0-99month-ssd-based-vps-hosting-service

For The Love Of Open Mapping Data | TechCrunch

▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/09/for-the-love-of-open-mapping-data

It’s been exactly ten years since the launch of OpenStreetMap, the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the Internet. The project was founded by Steve Coast when he was still a student.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sC83j6vzjo#t=17

It took a few years for the idea of OpenStreetMap to catch on, but today, it’s among the most heavily used sources for mapping data and the project is still going strong, with new and improved data added to it every day by volunteers as well as businesses that see the value in an open project like this.

To celebrate the project’s birthday, I sat down with Coast, who now works at Telenav, to talk about OpenStreetMap’s earliest days and its future. Here is a (lightly edited) transcript of the interview:

#osm #cartographie

Elon Musk Says Artificial Intelligence Could Be ’More Dangerous Than Nukes’
▻http://mashable.com/2014/08/03/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence

Posting his thoughts to Twitter on Saturday, after recommending a book about A.I., Musk made what might be the most controversial technology statement of his career:

Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

(...)

Later, doubling down on his initial tweet, Musk wrote, “Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”

#silicon_valley #disruption #intelligence_artificielle #robotisation #singularité etc.

l’épisode rappelle Bill Joy (en 2000): “Why the future doesn’t need us” - ▻http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

5月9日のツイート
▻http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-140509

Top story: We Went To TechCrunch Disrupt And Asked People How To Fix The Tech I… www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulo…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ posted at 08:14:26

Top story: Hikone, the castle saved by the Emperor muza-chan.net/japan/index.ph…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ posted at 00:51:14

Hacker ’Weev’: I Went to Prison Because Ronald Reagan Was Senile
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/hacker-weev-i-went-to-prison-because-ronald-reagan-was-senile

Abby Martin speaks with hacker and notorious internet troll Andrew ’Weev’ Auernheimer, discussing the overturning of his prison sentence after being charged with conspiracy under the Computer...

Technology’s Man Problem - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/technology/technologys-man-problem.html

Elissa Shevinsky can pinpoint the moment when she felt that she no longer belonged.

She was at a friend’s house last Sept. 8, watching the live stream of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon on her laptop and iPhone. Entrepreneurs were showing off their products, and two young Australian men, David Boulton and Jethro Batts, stood behind the podium to give their presentation. “Titstare is an app where you take photos of yourself staring at tits,” Mr. Boulton began, as photographs of women’s chests on a cellphone flashed on the screen behind him.

After some banter, Mr. Batts concluded, “This is the breast hack ever.”

The crowd — overwhelmingly young, white, hoodie-wearing men — guffawed. Something in Ms. Shevinsky’s mind clicked. If ever there was proof that the tech industry needed more women, she thought, this was it.

(...)

Tech executives often fault schools, parents or society in general for failing to encourage girls to pursue computer science. But something else is at play in the industry: Among the women who join the field, 56 percent leave by midcareer, a startling attrition rate that is double that for men, according to research from the Harvard Business School.

A culprit, many people in the field say, is a sexist, alpha-male culture that can make women and other people who don’t fit the mold feel unwelcome, demeaned or even endangered.

#science #informatique #femmes

Investors Debate The Ethics Of Anonymity Apps | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/investors-debate-the-ethics-of-anonymity-apps

VCs are publicly and privately debating the morality of investing in the burgeoning “anonymish” app space, after a series of negative posts, mainstream gossip, a high profile resignation and even bomb and violence threats have pushed the volume of the debate to eleven.

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Anonymous apps don’t end well, especially for the ladies in the crowd. My time on Secret doesn’t suggest anything different.

#anonymat

#GitHub puts founder on leave, kicks wife out of office after #harassment claim
▻http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/github-puts-founder-on-leave-kicks-wife-out-of-office-after-harassment-

GitHub has placed one of its three cofounders on leave and barred the cofounder’s wife from the office while it investigates allegations made by a former employee.

Engineer Julie Ann Horvath announced this past weekend that she had left GitHub, describing a toxic office culture in an e-mail interview with TechCrunch. The wife of the cofounder played a prominent role in Horvath’s account.

Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit
►http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes-sexism-and-intimidation-behind-her-github-ex

The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture at GitHub came as a surprise to some, given her former defense of the startup and her internal work at the company to promote women in technology.

#harcèlement #sexisme

3月8日のツイート
▻http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-140308

Top story: “Real” Satoshi Claims He Is Not Dorian Nakamoto | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2014/03/06/sat…, see more tweetedtimes.com/ChikuwaQ posted at 01:25:15

Stevens after Deleuze : The Effects of a New Ontology on the Problems of Poetics bit.ly/1geSDd2 posted at 00:53:30

#Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup #DeepMind For More Than $500M | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/26/google-deepmind

DeepMind was founded by neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, a former child prodigy in chess, Skype and Kazaa developer Jaan Tallin, and researcher Shane Legg.

This is the latest move by Google to fill out its roster of artificial intelligence experts (...) Ray Kurzweil, who was hired in 2012 as a director of engineering focused on machine learning and language processing.

Kurzweil has said that he wants to build a search engine so advanced that it could act like a “cybernetic friend.”

voir aussi ▻http://recode.net/2014/01/26/exclusive-google-to-buy-artificial-intelligence-startup-deepmind-for-400m

#intelligence_artificielle #text_mining

Vous ne trouvez pas que l’air devient étouffant ? - Google Is Buying Connected Device Company Nest For $3.2B In Cash | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/google-just-bought-connected-device-company-nest-for-3-2b-in-cash

3 miyars parce que derrière le “thermostat intelligent”, c’est la possibilité de mettre plein d’ordinateurs partout, pour surveiller tout ce qui se passe (d’où le mot #intelligence — espionnage en anglais)

#Google is acquiring connected device company Nest for $3.2 billion. (...)
Nest Founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers will both join Google. Rogers was one of the first engineers on the iPhone team at Apple.
▻http://www.koncepto.com/wp-content/uploads/google-nest-calor-inteligente.jpg
“They’re already delivering amazing products you can buy right now–thermostats that save energy and smoke/CO alarms that can help keep your family safe,” said Google CEO Larry Page in a statement. “We are excited to bring great experiences to more homes in more countries and fulfill their dreams!”

(...) “Google will help us fully realize our vision of the conscious home and allow us to change the world faster than we ever could if we continued to go it alone. (...) “The acquisition by Google is just a milestone along the way as they continue their quest to change the world,” he added. “I can’t wait to see how they will continue to bring magic to all those unloved things in our homes.”

The acquisition could also provide a #patent boost of some sort for Google. In December, Nest said that it had 100 patents granted, with 200 more on file with the U.S. Patent Office and another 200 ready to file. (...)

the access that Google will now have to information about when you’re home, which rooms you’re in and more.

#robotisation #surveillance #internet_des_objets

voir aussi ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/191945

The NSA’s Massive Computer Clusters In Utah Are Failing Due To “Arc” Explosions | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/08/the-nsas-massive-computer-clusters-in-utah-are-failing-due-to-arc-explos

The super secret NSA Utah Data Center is suffering from a number of massive electrical jolts which, in turn, have melted hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment. According to a WSJ report, the explosions, called “arc failures” are like “lightning” inside a computer case.

#NSA #Utah

What Do You Love About Writing Code? We Ask, Software Engineers Answer | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/07/what-do-you-love-about-writing-code-we-ask-software-engineers-answer

The annual Grace Hopper event for women in computing is billed not as a conference, but as a “celebration.” So when TechCrunch TV headed to Minneapolis this past week to cover Hopper 2013, we thought we’d take advantage of having so many software engineers in one place to ask about what exactly they were “celebrating” the most: What is it that they love about the act of building things through code?

#code

The Rise Of The Ephemeralnet | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/30/the-ephemeralnet

State Launches Opinion Network Where You Don’t Need Followers To Be Heard | TechCrunch
▻http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/29/state

All the intelligence that’s gathered online today is gathered by following people. It’s not very empowering to people, and it’s not a precise way of getting insights about what people think.” Luckily, Alexander and his brother Mark, who was formerly head of product at VOIP startup Rebtel and is now State’s CEO, have $14 million in seed funding to reorganize the web.

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/screen-shot-2013-04-29-at-11-03-59-am.png

#information #publication #web ; le modèle est intrigant, même si on voit bien les biais énormes qu’il peut y avoir (tout le monde exprimant un avis sur tout pour ramasser des hits)…

#Facebook #Mobile User Counts Revealed : 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M iPad, 56M Messenger | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/how-many-mobile-users-does-facebook-have

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There’s a ton of of feature phone users, and not enough are on Facebook. The social network should look to how it can convince its feature phone users to get their friends on-board too. That might mean some kind of incentive program for feature phone recruiters or recruits, such as mobile data discounts.

#téléphonie

What A Facebook Response To A User Data Subpoena Looks Like | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/06/heres-what-a-facebook-response-to-a-user-data-subpoena-looks-like

we can have a look at exactly what that Facebook account report looks like, perhaps for the first time.

The document comes by way of the newspaper the Boston Phoenix, which this week published a long feature on how digital sleuthing led to detectives tracking down Philip Markoff, a man accused of robbing two women and murdering a third, having initially made contact with them through Craigslist. (Markoff committed suicide before his case went to trial.)

The feature is worth reading in itself, but what’s equally interesting is that the Phoenix has taken the opportunity to also make public an extensive amount of evidence that was used in the case, covering things like CCTV footage, audio of police interviews… and all of Markoff’s #Facebook data.

►http://issuu.com/thebostonphoenix/docs/markoff-facebook-subpoena/39

#surveillance #data

Encore un #brevet #logiciel fou.
Oh, That “Pull To Refresh” Thing In iOS? Yeah, Twitter Has A Patent App On That | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/27/pull-to-refresh-the-patent

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_4262.png

Yep, #Twitter is trying to patent “pull to refresh.” But the patent app doesn’t stop there – it goes after anything that issues a command on pulling down a menu.

BitTorrent Live: Cheap, Real-Time P2P Video Streaming That Will Kill TV | TechCrunch
►http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/13/bittorrent-live

#BitTorrent Live lets any content owner or publisher stream video to millions of people at good quality and with just a few seconds of latency…for free or cheap. Sports, news events, simulcast TV shows, education, video conferencing, or uncensored war zone broadcasts — this technology will power the future of video.

“My goal is to kill off #television” Cohen said during the SF MusicTech demo session

#censure #internet #p2p