Dataminr : cette boîte dont Twitter veut priver les espions américains Décidément, la Silicon Valley et le renseignement ne se sentent plus. En tout cas si l’on en croit le dernier épisode rapporté par le Wall Street Journal (payant) : Twitter viendrait d’exiger de Dataminr, une entreprise dont elle détient 5%, de cesser sa coopération avec certaines agences américaines. Tom Cruise dans « Minority Report » - UFD Le réseau social aurait agi par peur de paraître trop proche des espions, avance le journal, qui s’appuie sur des sources anonymes. De son côté, Twitter s’est fendu d’une réaction laconique, qui a tout d’une claque au visage des autorités fédérales : « [Nos] données sont largement publiques et le gouvernement américain peut faire la recension des comptes publics par ses propres moyens, tout comme n’importe quel utilisateur. » Dit comme ça, on voit mal pourquoi la CIA, le FBI et leurs copains tiennent tant à utiliser Dataminr. Une potion magique secrète Leur force ? Le fonctionnement de Dataminr, tel qu’affiché sur son site officiel - Dataminr
The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos SOFT ROBOTS THAT can grasp delicate objects, computer algorithms designed to spot an “insider threat,” and artificial intelligence that will sift through large data sets — these are just a few of the technologies being pursued by companies with investment from In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, according to a document obtained by The Intercept. Yet among the 38 previously undisclosed companies receiving In-Q-Tel funding, the research focus that stands out is social media mining and surveillance; the portfolio document lists several tech companies pursuing work in this area, including Dataminr, Geofeedia, PATHAR, and TransVoyant. In-Q-Tel’s investment process. Screen grab from In-Q-Tel’s website. Those four firms, which provide unique tools to mine data from platforms such as Twitter, presented at a February “CEO Summit” in San Jose sponsored by the fund, along with other In-Q-Tel portfolio companies. Screen grab from Dataminr’s website. Screen grab from Geofeedia’s website. Carrie A.
Dix tendances tech qui vont bouleverser notre société Par Alexandra Yeh, Direction de la Prospective, France Télévisions Fjord, cellule du département Design & Innovation du cabinet de conseil Accenture vient de publier l'édition 2016 de son rapport d'analyse des tendances, qui en compte dix cette année. De l'arrivée de l'EX à la prise de décision assistée par algorithmes en passant par la fin du marketing de masse, les avancées technologiques devraient bouleverser notre environnement et entraîner des mutations profondes de nos sociétés, autant dans les sphères publique et professionnelle que privée. 1 L’Internet des objets signe la fin du marketing de masse L’Internet des objets désigne l’ensemble des objets connectés qui nous entourent et nous assistent au quotidien. 2Éthique et objets connectés Les objets intelligents sauront tout de nous, de notre état de santé au contenu de notre frigidaire en passant par la qualité de l’air que l’on respire. 3L’arrivée de l’EX (employee experience) 4L’atomisation des applications
Blockchain : la fin du Big data ? Si la production des données numériques dans le monde a le vent en poupe, 90% de ces données ont été produites dans les deux dernières années, Facebook y est bien pour quelque chose. Le plus grand réseau social en ligne a récolté 300 petabytes de données personnelles depuis son commencement, cent fois la quantité que la Bibliothèque du Congrès a pu collecter en deux siècles ! Dans l’ère du big data, les données sont avidement rassemblées et analysées : les entreprises et les organisations les utilisent pour personnaliser des services, optimiser les processus de prise de décisions, prévoir des tendances futures et plus encore. Aujourd’hui, les données sont un actif de valeur de l’économie mondiale. La préoccupation est croissante, concernant la vie privée des utilisateurs. Les chercheurs ont développé des techniques diverses visant à sécuriser la vie privée et les données personnelles. On connaît l’adage : «Lorsqu’un service est gratuit sur le web, le client c’est vous.» A propos
About Us We’re a dedicated group of mapping nerds who want nothing more than to bring you a solid and painless mapping experience. We started as a custom map shop in the summer of 2010 with our friends at Batchgeo. Since then we’ve been quietly perfecting our mapping solution to become the on-demand service we are today. We are licensed with Google Maps for Business. We love working with all types of businesses and organizations—no matter the industry or the size. We’re constantly working to improve our product. A Data-Backed Aproach: The Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow We are at the beginning of a revolution that will impact every business and life on this planet. While we live in the information age, it is vital to have a way to process all the information into something tangible and usable. Thankfully, this is where big data comes into play. What is big data? Big data is all about taking large data sets that may be analyzed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions. Some take this data and create complex and beautiful visualizations. They then apply what learning to create better healthcare, customer service, music preferences, marketing systems, and better data-driven decisions.krist Who is the best source of information on big data? With over 1.2 billion websites, it’s a challenge to find the best people to follow, and get quality advice from. To find out who were the most influential big data experts are around the world, we compared many data science practitioners’ impact on social media.
Digital Is Reshaping Global Trade With New Speed, Insight, Reach From the Silk Road to the Spice Route, trade routes have linked continents, spanned the oceans and reshaped the world over water and air, rail and highway. But the newest trade routes travel on a different medium, and involve a fiber that has nothing to do with silk! Today’s hottest trade routes are digital, and they are connecting global commerce centers via high-speed fiber optic cable. They regularly traverse land and sea carrying everything from the latest video streaming sensations to the mission-critical cloud services that digital businesses can’t exist without. The data flows at the heart of this digital trade barely existed 15 years ago. But trade in digital services has more than doubled in the past decade, and is now about 50% of total services exports, according to McKinsey’s “Digital Globalization Report.” As digital trade grows, the need for Interconnection – defined as private traffic exchange between businesses – is growing with it. The broad fabric of digital trade
La blockchain est davantage que seulement le Bitcoin « Bitcoin tombe sous les 6000 dollars » (« 20 Minutes », 6 février 2018), suivi immédiatement de « Cet homme a-t-il arrêté tout seul le crash du marché des crypto-monnaies? » (« Watson », 7 février 2018). Un analyste de Goldman-Sachs compare la situation à la bulle des dotcoms au début du millénaire et pense que de nombreuses crypto-monnaies pourraient tomber à zéro. L’agitation règne dans le monde du Bitcoin et compagnie. Les Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, Dash et de nombreuses autres crypto-monnaies ont une chose en commun : elles sont basées sur la technologie blockchain. 1. Le système de paiement bitcoin a été pour la première fois décrit en 2008 par une personne nommée Satoshi Nakamoto et publié l’année suivante comme logiciel open source. 2. Une blockchain gère une liste sans cesse croissante de données. 3. Chaque ordinateur participant (Node) gère une copie entière de la blockchain. 4. 5. 6.
Everything Alibaba Does Differently — and Better Alibaba hit the headlines with the world’s biggest IPO in September 2014. Today, the company has a market cap among the global top 10, has surpassed Walmart in global sales, and has expanded into all the major markets in the world. Founder Jack Ma has become a household name. From its inception, in 1999, Alibaba experienced great growth on its e-commerce platform. However, it still didn’t look like a world-beater in 2007 when the management team, which I had joined full-time the year before, met for a strategy off-site at a drab seaside hotel in Ningbo, Zhejiang province. Over the course of the meeting, our disjointed observations and ideas about e-commerce trends began to coalesce into a larger view of the future, and by the end, we had agreed on a vision. The ecosystem we built was simple at first: We linked buyers and sellers of goods. Alibaba today is not just an online commerce company. What Is Smart Business? So how do you create that kind of business? Step 3: Get data flowing.
Fortune So, who’s winning? The disruptors or the incumbents? While incumbents often get a bad rap, the truth is that for every sector where technological change has enabled fleet-footed digital disruptors to innovate business models, there are even more where established players still prevail. (As an example of the latter, try to name your favorite web-based pharma giant.) As the next major technological wave rolls forward—think artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain—we believe many incumbents stand a good chance of prevailing yet again, provided they move fast and at scale. The data is pretty clear on this score. Exhibit 1—McKinsey & Company And it seems to be working. Exhibit 2—McKinsey & Company While the first phase of Internet disruption was largely about removing unnecessary intermediaries from markets and creating digital-only businesses, the new wave can be boiled down to combining technologies to do radically new things. Exhibit 3—McKinsey & Company
Modeling the global economic impact of AI The role of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques in business and the global economy is a hot topic. This is not surprising given that AI might usher in radical—arguably unprecedented—changes in the way people live and work. The AI revolution is not in its infancy, but most of its economic impact is yet to come. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute attempts to simulate the impact of AI on the world economy. The analysis should be seen as a guide to the potential economic impact of AI based on the best knowledge available at this stage. We strive to provide individuals with disabilities equal access to our website. There is large potential for AI to contribute to global economic activity The McKinsey Global Institute looked at five broad categories of AI: computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning. Video Our simulation examined seven possible channels of impact. How AI could affect countries
'Secret sharing' system keeps your personal data safe Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Researchers have created a new method for keeping private the data that our many devices collect about how we use them. The people who design hardware and software for smartphones, internet browsers, high-tech cars, and many other internet-enabled devices need to know how people use their products in order to make them better. So researchers have developed a new system for aggregating these kinds of usage reports that emphasizes maintaining personal privacy. “We have an increasing number of devices—in our lightbulbs, in our cars, in our toasters—that are collecting personal data and sending it back to the device’s manufacturer. The secret ingredient? The system, called Prio, works by breaking up and obscuring individual information through a technique known as “secret sharing” and only allowing for the collection of aggregate reports. Keep ’em separated 100,000 Prio users