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Traffic Wouldn’t Jam If Drivers Behaved Like Ants - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/-traffic-wouldnt-jam-if-drivers-behaved-like-ants

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Ant colony optimization has itself migrated with impressive speed and range, and has been taken up residence in all kinds of research pursuits, from estimating electricity consumption in Turkey to designing supply chains to the design of tall bridge piers to robot learning.Photograph by Bernardinus Nugraha / FlickrAs someone so flummoxed by traffic I wrote a book about it, I have a near-clinical aversion to vehicular congestion. My global default strategy is to simply drive as little as possible, but there are times when I simply must put foot to gas pedal. Like many, I have become increasingly dependent on the Waze app, which, via each drivers’ smartphone, turns an inchoate, undifferentiated mass of drivers into something resembling a collective form of networked intelligence. Waze, (...)

Waze accusé de protéger la vie des Israéliens bien mieux que les Palestiniens
▻http://www.numerama.com/politique/199525-waze-accuse-de-proteger-la-vie-des-israeliens-bien-mieux-que-les-pa

Créée en Israël et rachetée par Google en 2013, l’application Waze offre depuis l’an dernier la possibilité d’éviter les « zones dangereuses » de Cisjordanie. Mais les Palestiniens reprochent à Waze de n’y mettre que les zones palestiniennes dangereuses pour les Israéliens, et pas les colonies israéliennes dangereuses pour les Palestiniens. Ou quand l’algorithme d’un GPS devient une question de vie ou de mort. Créer une application de cartographie, c’est parfois devoir plonger dans des conflits (...)

#Google #Waze #GPS #géolocalisation #discrimination

Funeral held for teen killed during fatal attack on Israeli settlement
Jan. 30, 2016
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770039

RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Thousands mourned on Friday in the funeral of a 17-year-old Palestinian from the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank who was shot dead while carrying out an attack in the illegal Beit Horon settlement earlier this week.

Hussein Muhammad Abu Ghush was killed alongside 23-year-old Osama Youssef Allan on Monday after the two stabbed two Israeli women in the settlement, one of whom died shortly after from critical injuries.

Israeli authorities handed over the bodies of both Palestinians Friday evening after withholding them for four days.

Abu Ghush’s body was taken in an ambulance from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to the Qalandiya refugee camp, where residents carried the 17-year-old on their shoulders to his family home.

Following final farewells bid by relatives, his body was brought to a mosque inside of the camp for funeral prayers before being laid to rest.

Abu Ghush is among at least nine residents of the Qalandiya refugee camp to be killed since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October.

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