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Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias

Feb21
by on February 21, 2019 at 9:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


It’s difficult to tell whether wide-spread use of predictive policing AI is the result of capitalism or ignorance. Perhaps it’s both. AI cannot predict crime; it’s ridiculous to think it could. What it can do is provide a mathematical smoke-screen for unlawful police practices. And it does this very well, according to AI experts. A team of researchers from the AI Now Institute recently investigated thirteen police jurisdictions in the US that were utilizing predictive policing technology. At least nine of them “appear to have used police data generated during periods when the department was found to have engaged in…

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Marketing and CX enter the age of machine learning, but are businesses ready?

Feb21
by on February 21, 2019 at 7:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


There is no longer a delineation between digital and traditional customers. Anyone with a smartphone traverses between online and offline activities without a second thought. As they do, they gain a penchant for modern conveniences, such as speed, utility and real-time assistance. Along the way, they also become more and more impatient and demanding. To engage today’s customer takes a modern approach to marketing where advanced technologies and customer optimization set the stage for what I call “adviser brands.” And, they’re changing the game for everyone. Adviser brands represent a shift away from a traditional focus on top-of-the-funnel campaigns and…

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Can foldable phones deliver where tablets failed?

Feb21
by on February 21, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Yesterday, Samsung unveiled its most ambitious phone to date — the ultra-flexible Samsung Galaxy Fold. This 5G-enabled tablet-smartphone hybrid will retail at roughly $2,000, and is expected to hit shelves in April this year. Even to those who cover the smartphone industry professionally, the announcement was a genuine surprise — which, believe me, is a rarity these days. Although most people knew a foldable phone was on the near-horizon, it didn’t seem quite this close. Most expected Samsung to announce it during the manic hubbub of Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona next week. If I was a…

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S10, S10+, S10e hands-on: Samsung’s galaxy of Galaxies gets a little bigger

Feb21
by on February 21, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


After months of seemingly endless rumors and speculation, the Galaxy S10 is here, and we had the chance to play with it – or rather, several versions of it. The 10th in Samsung’s Galaxy line, the S10 is the company’s chance to get back in the limelight after lackluster sales of the Galaxy S9. Samsung is releasing not two or three, but four versions of the device, each designed to appeal to different types of consumer. There are the standard Galaxy S10 and S10+ everyone expected, and then the smaller and more affordable ‘S10e’ we’ve been hearing about for a long…

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Meet the lawyer-turned-artist behind classical cryptocurrency paintings

Feb21
by on February 21, 2019 at 4:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Over the past 10 years cryptocurrency, blockchain, and art have become the most surprising and unlikely of bed fellows. Street art, graffitti, and memes are quite common, but the words cryptocurrency and fine art rarely appear in the same sentence. But that’s changing as one artist is making these worlds collide to produce something as individually unique as a Bitcoin wallet private key. Toronto-based fine artist – Nelly Baksht – is one of a growing community creating works specifically for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. But she hasn’t always been interested in the decentralized technology. For Nelly her love of…

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