Everyday Tech (2017-06-27) --- Everyday tech news and article extract!
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Google Fined Record $2.7 Billion in E.U. Antitrust Ruling
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/eu-google-fine.html
Google suffered a major blow on Tuesday after European antitrust officials fined the search giant a record $2.7 billion for unfairly favoring some of its own search services over those of rivals.
Passengers Are Happier Interacting With Technology Than With People, Study Finds
Source: http://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/biometric-airline-apps
The most recent passenger survey published by air transport technology company SITA found that the majority of passengers now want to use biometrics for identification.
Technology of tomorrow on display at Smart Cities Conference
Source: http://kxan.com/2017/06/27/technology-of-tomorrow-on-display-at-smart-cities-conference/
The 2017 Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo, coinciding with the U.S. Ignite Application Summit, is underway. Companies from all over the world are showing off their latest technology while city leaders from throughout the country discuss ways to use that tech in their towns.
Who Is Winning the AI Race?
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608112/who-is-winning-the-ai-race/
China and the United States dominate the world of artificial-intelligence research. Microsoft, IBM, and Google are the leading companies.
"Mind reading" technology can now decode complex thoughts
Source: http://newatlas.com/mind-reading-complex-thoughts/50228/
In the past, "mind reading" systems have been able to guess what single-digit number a person might be thinking of, but deeper thoughts have been beyond the technology's reach. Now, a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has developed a way to accurately read more complex concepts from a brain scan, and even piece together entire sentences.
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Now the tech leaders, including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, to name but a few, have been working a lot in frontier researches, especially on artificial intelligence. In your opinion, which company is going to win the AI race?
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English articles 英語文章:
Be a smart gambler! #1 - Gambler's fallacy
Let's play a game #1 - Prisoner's Dilemma
Paradox is fun! #1 - Boy or Girl?
No solution! #1 - Prime numbers
Everyday Tech Series
Bilingual articles 雙語文章:
Welcome to the world of mahjong! 歡迎來到麻雀教室! #1
No solution! #2 - P vs NP Problem / 無解 #2 - P vs NP問題
Paradox is fun! #2 - Will you switch the door? 趣味悖論 #2 - 你會換另一道門嗎?
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Thank you for following this series! I read a number of tech related articles everyday and just want to spend some time to share those insightful articles to other Steemians. The tech devleopment has been really rapid and there are hundreds of tech news everyday. Seem that the information is not concentrated and appears in many different posts. So i try to see if i can provide more consolidated information in my posts!
ye that's was very successful! good for busy people like me, so I can have a glimpse of what's happening around the world in a very short period of time. how much time did you spend to read these articles every day?
Reading the one saying that passengers are happier interacting with technology than with people, i find it so sad. Technology is supposed to be a means to facilitate interactions and connections between people, but it seems that it's been working the other way round
I am half-half on that. I remember a few weeks (or months) ago I saw another article about an airline from some country (not sure if it's US or others) had some trial project to try using facial recognization to simplify the check-in process, which sounds good in my view (provided that all security issues are resolved).
Cant deny that technology brings us convenience, but i think it should be moderated. Over reliance is never doing good and there is always a negative feedback mechanism that drives the extreme back to normal. Not sure what negative feedback is going to do it, but it should be worried about anyway imo
wow that's a very brave approach! but what if they wear some fake masks like the thing that happens in Hollywood movies?
If i remember correctly, that's a trial scheme and just selected 10-ish passengers to join the experiment. Ya, for sure there would be a lot to think about, like as you said how if he or she wears something on face. But as tech becomes more advanced, i'm confident that those issues can be resolved at last. How do you think personal identification using AI?
Facial recognition is not really something new as it has been employed by cell phones we use now. But I'm not really sure if it'd work out to tackle serious issues like security checking for flights. The technology may be there, but there are always people trying to beat the technology in one way or another so it may not be safe to be put in place