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Listen, parents, here are 3 reasons you shouldn’t use child tracking apps

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by on May 20, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Social Media, syndication, world


The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor people’s movement, health, mindfulness, sleep, eating habits and even sexual activity. Some of the more thorny problems arise from apps designed to track others, like those made for parents to track their kids. For example, there are specific apps that allow parents to monitor their child’s GPS location, who they call, what they text, which apps they use, what they view online and the phone number of their contacts. As a bioethicist who specializes in the ethics of emerging…

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Hackers made $32K in 7 weeks by fixing bugs in cryptocurrency projects

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by on May 20, 2019 at 3:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


In the past seven weeks, white hat hackers earned at least $32,150 by fixing security flaws in popular cryptocurrency and blockchain platforms like TRON, Brave, EOS and Coinbase. According to data reviewed by Hard Fork, 15 blockchain-related firms have paid rewards to security researchers between March 28 and May 16, split across 30 publicly-released bug reports. Omise, the software firm behind cryptocurrency OmiseGo, fielded the most fixes (six). Blockchain-powered prediction market Augur disclosed three reports, as did Brave Software, makers of the Brave browser, which features its own native token. Projects adjust their HackerOne rewards to the severity the discovered security…

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ABN AMRO signs on Accenture and ING Bank for its blockchain inventory platform

May20
by on May 20, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Despite abandoning plans to build its own Bitcoin wallet, ABN AMRO is not quite done with blockchain tech. The Dutch banking giant has announced plans to launch a decentralized trade inventory platform in collaboration with Accenture and ING Bank, according to a press release (spotted by CoinDesk). Codenamed Forcefield, the project will employ Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to provide “real-time insight into trade inventories.” ABN AMRO claims the platform’s monitoring features “will lead to more secure physical handling processes and a reduction of costs.” Upon launch, the project will focus on “refined metals,” but “functionality will be expanded across other dry…

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How to remove hiring bias through gamification

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by on May 20, 2019 at 2:23 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Work 2030


What if I told you you’d get your next job by surviving on a deserted island? Or by thwarting a Dothraki invasion? Unfortunately, this isn’t a casting call for Game of Thrones. Gamification is getting ready to save us from that awkward pause after a recruiter sits back and says, “So tell me about yourself.” Not only will it make the hiring process more bearable, but a number of new startups also claim their recruitment games can help companies finally tackle unconscious bias. Why blind resume screening doesn’t work Humans are naturally biased. From a neurological perspective, every day we…

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These 20 tech companies literally have the most valuable employees

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by on May 20, 2019 at 1:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


If you’ve ever wondered how valuable a company is — or in other words, its capacity to bring in revenue, as well as what its assets are worth — the most common way to do it is to look at its market capitalization. It’s the result of a company’s historically reported and expected — by the company itself and the outside world in the form of analysis and speculation — financial performance, further influenced by broader industry and market movements, and general economic conditions, trends, and sentiments. A wide array of metrics are being used to compute a company’s true…

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