Web-Technologie wird ständig weiterentwickelt und die neueste Messlatte für ein gutes Online-Kundenerlebnis ist eine Progressive Web App (PWA). Eine PWA nützt eine Reihe von Webtechnologien, die Benutzern schnelle, app-ähnliche Erlebnisse bieten. Dies führt zu höheren Conversion-Raten und gibt auch einen SEO-Schub. Zum Beispiel verzeichnete Lancôme einen Anstieg des mobilen Umsatzes um 36%; das britische Kaufhaus...
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Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used By The Justice Department, ICE, And The FBI
Clearview’s facial recognition AI is not only used by law enforcement; there is a large number of private companies that have Clearview accounts, like Kohl’s and Walmart and banks like Wells Fargo and Bank of America. While most of these companies have no formal contracts with Clearview and appear to have used Clearview’s software on...
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It – The New York Times
How do you feel about the end of privacy on public places? In public transport? When you can identfy every stranger that passes by? When every stranger can indentify you without your knowledge? While this might be still a bit away, the NY Times reports that a start-up called Clearview AI is using a massive...
The case for … ‘dumb’ cities instead of ‘smart’ ones
We’ve participated in SCEWC in Barcelona last year. The amount of technology that is supposed to makes a city smart is staggering. For monitoring ever movement in the city millions of sensors are positioned in cities. Some of them look like from some dystopian future. What’s missing are actuators that physically enforce some desired behavior...
5 things we learned about AI this year – MIT Technology Review Insights
The five main results of studies MIT Technology Review Insights has conducted on AI: Sixty-three percent of businesses in a worldwide survey to the MIT Technology Review Global Panel have a centralized AI plan or are using AI on a case by case basis. Companies are making big AI-driven gains in efficiency and customer satisfaction....
Activity-Centric Computing Systems | August 2019 | Communications of the ACM
The Activity Centric Computing paradigm adresses information management challenges that at the core of the application centric computing paradigm. Activity-Centric Computing Systems from CACM on Vimeo. Photo by Steve Johnson from Pexels Source: Activity-Centric Computing Systems | August 2019 | Communications of the ACM
Council Post: 12 Business Use Cases For Edge Computing
EDGE computing is a ongoing trend for some time now. Forbes discusses 12 use cases where EDGE computing shines: from customer experience in retail to the Internet of Things, Smart buildings and AR. Source: Council Post: 12 Business Use Cases For Edge Computing Photo by Christina Morillo from Pexels
The Great Hack review – searing exposé of the Cambridge Analytica scandal – The Guardian
The Guardian review of the new Nextflix documentary “The Great Hack“. Our recommendation? Watch it. It’s a must see. Source: The Great Hack review – searing exposé of the Cambridge Analytica scandal | Film | The Guardian Photo by Tracy Le Blanc from Pexels
Apple contractors ‘regularly hear confidential details’ on Siri recordings | The Guardian
Apple has positioned itself as company that respects the privacy of their users. However, as The Guardian reports, Apple’s contractors have access to a certain percentage of all Siri-recordings. They regularly listen to confidential conversations of users, like drug deals, discussions about medical details and to even people having sex. Source: Apple contractors ‘regularly hear...
Instagram is extending its public like removing trials
Instagram is testing the removal of visible likes in six more countries. They include Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. In these countries only the uploaders will see how many likes their pictures received. This has of course impact on influencers: the days of counting likes as a measure of publicity are commming...
