Redlining. In the United States and Canada, redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.
While the best known examples of redlining have involved denial of financial services such as banking or insurance,[2] other services such as health care[3] or even supermarkets[4] have been denied to residents. In the case of retail businesses like supermarkets, purposely locating impractically far away from said residents results in a redlining effect.[5] Reverse redlining occurs when a lender or insurer targets particular neighborhoods that are predominantly nonwhite, not to deny residents loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than in a non-redlined neighborhood where there is more competition.[6][7] History[edit] Some redlined maps were also created by private organizations, such as J.M. Brewer's 1934 map of Philadelphia. Five projects that are harnessing big data for good. Data science has boomed over the past decade, following advances in mathematics, computing capability, and data storage.
Australia’s Industry 4.0 taskforce is busy exploring ways to improve the Australian economy with tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics. But while data science offers the potential to solve complex problems and drive innovation, it has often come under fire for unethical use of data or unintended negative consequences – particularly in commercial cases where people become data points in annual company reports. We argue that the data science boom shouldn’t be limited to business insights and profit margins. When used ethically, big data can help solve some of society’s most difficult social and environmental problems. Industry 4.0 should be underwritten by values that ensure these technologies are trained towards the social good (known as Society 4.0). Sign In. Apple sued by more iPhone owners over software that slowed older phones.
Apple confirmed a theory many users have had for years: the iPhone gets slower with age.
The confirmation comes after Reddit users noticed their devices were getting slower as the batteries in their iPhones got weaker. USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — Wednesday Apple admitted that it deliberately slowed down older iPhones to prevent unexpected shutdowns when the batteries were worn out. More app developers sued over patent claims. Another patent-owning company has targeted app developers on both Apple and Android platforms, intensifying concerns among developers that smartphones are the new hunting ground for so-called "patent trolls".
MacroSolve, a US-based company traded "over the counter", has so far sued 10 app development companies, claiming that they infringe a patent 7,822,816, entitled "system and method for data management", which covers the collection and transmission of data for questionnaires and puts them online. The patent was filed in August 2003 and awarded in October 2010, and the discussion specifically relates to "handheld computers" – a category that has now come to include smartphones. Jim McGill, chairman of MacroSolve, has said that the patent covers "thousands of existing apps" that collect data and send it to a central server.
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The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Nov. 25, 2018, 7:32 PM GMT By Pete Williams WASHINGTON — Anyone who wants to get an app for an iPhone has only one place to go — Apple's own App Store.
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In it, the company’s researchers detailed insights that they had gathered by examining “how the break-up moment influenced the online behaviors of people across France, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom who indicated on Facebook that they recently went through a break up.” One of their findings was that “there could be a gap between the break up itself and the Facebook post announcing it. Ethics and Compliance: Are they Different? By Pat Gnazzo.
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