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10 most important tech trends of the decade
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPad on January 27, 2010, in San Francisco. When I hustled out of CNET headquarters in San Francisco on May 26, 2010, and slipped into a rental car with two of my co-workers to head to a meeting across the Bay, one of them slipped me a copy of The Wall Street Journal and pointed to a headline that announced Apple had passed Microsoft to become the world's most valuable tech company. "What do you think of that?" she said. "Unreal," I responded, shaking my head. Just over a decade earlier, Apple had nearly been on its deathbed and needed a $150 million investment from Microsoft simply to stay alive. But then the iPhone arrived in 2007, and Apple rewrote the playbook on the mobile revolution.
r/MachineLearning - [D] ICCV 19 - The state of (some) ethically questionable papers
I was wondering if anyone else have similar feelings with regards to a number of accepted papers coming from Chinese universities/authors presented in ICCV. Thus far in the conference, I came across quite a lot of papers with questionable motives which made me question the ethical consequences. These papers are, for the most part, concerned with various forms of person identification (i.e., typical big brother stuff). In fact, when you look at the accepted papers, more than 80% of any kind of identification papers have Chinese authors/affiliations. But that's not all, some papers go to extreme lengths of person re-identification such as: And maybe you think person re-identification is all there is, but its not.
Audio from Apple's Siri to be reviewed by humans again with iPhone update
Fox News Flash top headlines for Oct. 29 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Apple has resumed the controversial practice of allowing humans to review Siri commands and dictation with the latest iPhone software update. After an investigative report, the California-based tech giant ended the practice in August. Although using humans to audit audio is common in Silicon Valley -- Amazon and Google have also taken flak for the practice -- seen by critics as undermining Apple's attempts to market itself as a guardian of privacy.