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Tech Titans
Tech Titans is hosting a Reverse Pitch event as part of next week's Techweek event. This twist on the entrepreneur pitch concept will feature corporate companies who present their initiatives for development and growth, this time in data science. The event will be Tuesday, Nov. 1 at the Capital One campus, at The Garage (for entrepreneurial growth), 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
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The Verge
Imagine a security camera that can understand and analyze the scene it's capturing. The camera can spot someone who is leaving a piece of luggage behind at an airport and issue an alert. It can identify a car being sought in connection with a crime based on its color, shape, and dented left bumper, even if the license plate has been covered up. And it can spot drivers who are texting when they should be watching the road, potentially passing on this information to law enforcement officials that can then issue a ticket.
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Forbes
IBM's Watson project has always been about putting the power of data science into the hands of the masses. Today, IBM is announcing another step towards that vision with the launch of the Watson Data Platform. The theory is simple. The incredible potential for driving efficiency and change with Big data and advanced analytics – as well as all the associated technologies such as machine learning, the Internet of Things, and predictive modelling – is so great, it should be available to everyone.
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MIT Technology Review
When the internet apocalypse comes, your smart thermostat may be to blame. That's the lesson from last week's epic internet outage, in which attackers used internet-connected devices inside people's homes to bring a large chunk of the Web to its knees.
The outage, which mainly affected the East Coast of the U.S., struck on Friday morning but was felt into the weekend. It was caused by a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, leveled at the servers of the domain name system host Dyn, which overwhelmed servers with data requests and made it impossible for users to fetch the files of Web pages.
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InformationWeek
The recent DDoS attack on Dyn was powered in part by a bot army of home devices. How not to let your webcam or other IoT system go rogue.
The massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on DNS provider Dyn late last week in which Internet of Things (IoT) devices were compromised and used as part of the bot army that slowed access to popular websites such as Amazon, Twitter, and PayPal, underscored long-known vulnerabilities with IoT.
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QTS Realty Trust, Inc.
QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading provider of secure, compliant data center, hybrid cloud and managed services. QTS features the nation’s only fully integrated technology services platform providing flexible, scalable solutions for the federal government, financial services, healthcare and high tech industries.
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InformationWeek
Gartner has released its annual list of the top 10 strategic trends. Are you planning for the right technology to future-proof your organization? Here's a closer look at each of the trends.
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Scientific American
HAL 9000, the sentient computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, offers an ominous glimpse of a future in which machines endowed with artificial intelligence reject human authority. After taking control of a spacecraft and killing most of the crew, HAL responds to a returning astronaut's order to open the ship's pod bay door in an eerily calm voice: "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
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The New York Times
When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory floors and even baby cribs. Later, they were adopted for darker purposes, as authoritarian governments like China's used them to prevent challenges to power by keeping tabs on protesters and dissidents.
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The New York Times
Imagine receiving a phone call from your aging mother seeking your help because she has forgotten her banking password.
Except it's not your mother. The voice on the other end of the phone call just sounds deceptively like her.
It is actually a computer-synthesized voice, a tour-de-force of artificial intelligence technology that has been crafted to make it possible for someone to masquerade via the telephone.
Such a situation is still science fiction — but just barely. It is also the future of crime.
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University of Cambridge via ScienceDaily
A newly-developed form of transistor opens up a range of new electronic applications including wearable or implantable devices by drastically reducing the amount of power used. Devices based on this type of ultralow power transistor could function for months or even years without a battery by "scavenging" energy from their environment.
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ABC
Scientist, lecturer and drone pilot, Dr Karen Joyce is on a mission to attract more women to the fields of science and technology.
But the more important job, she said, is to keep them there.
According to the Australian Academy of Science, women account for less than 20 percent of scientists in the nation's universities and research institutes.
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