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Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government

SKOOTER MCCOY WAS 20 years old when his wife, Michelle, gave birth to their first child, a son named Spencer. It was 1996, and McCoy was living in the tiny town of Cherokee, North Carolina, attending Western Carolina University on a football scholarship. He was the first member of his family to go to college....

By |2017-11-14T23:20:16+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Ray Kurzweil on Turing Tests, Brain Extenders, and AI Ethics

We do have technologies that can have conversations. My team at Google created smart replies, as you know. So we're writing millions of emails. And it has to understand the meaning of the email it's responding to even though the proposed suggestions are brief. But your question is a Turing-equivalent question—it's equivalent to the Turing...

By |2017-11-14T23:19:57+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Open standards will ease GDPR risk, says Kantara

Currently, the most extreme use of personal data online is by advertising technology companies to identify which browsers to target with specific ads. This is the reason the Kantara Initiative – which creates specifications where none exist to meet market needs – chose consent as the basis for one of its specifications. The Kantara Initiative...

By |2017-11-14T23:19:16+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Why GDPR is so relevant to the business

This is the reason why the EU GDPR is first and foremost a business challenge. Not primarily an IT challenge, not an IT security challenge, nor a data protection challenge. For sure, it is a challenge for CIOs, chief information security officers, and data protection officers. No doubt, there are a lot of complex challenges...

By |2017-11-14T22:08:39+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Le PDG de L’Oréal : « Plus puissant qu’un shadow comex, des jeunes aux responsabilités »

AccorHotels a créé un shadow comex… Comment une nouvelle génération prend-elle la main chez L'Oréal ? Je ne crois pas aux faux-semblants, et ne vois pas la véritable utilité d'un shadow comex. Les jeunes collaborateurs doivent avoir de vraies responsabilités dans l'entreprise, tôt dans leur carrière. C'est ce qu'a toujours fait L'Oréal. Je suis bien...

By |2017-11-14T22:07:55+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Amazon Signals Its Furniture Ambitions with Two Private Label Lines

Already the leading online furniture retailer, Amazon has amped up the pressure on the sector with the launch of two private-label furniture lines. Amazon’s Rivet and Stone & Beam lines are still too new to have made a big sales impact, but the launches are a signal that consumers are growing more comfortable with the...

By |2017-11-14T22:02:14+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Pourquoi Amazon mise des millions de dollars sur « Le Seigneur des Anneaux »

epuis quelques années, le géant du commerce en ligne investit des milliards dans les contenus. Un coup de billard à trois bandes. Jeff Bezos voulait son « Game of Thrones » ou son « House of Cards », le patron d'Amazon aura son « Seigneur des Anneaux ». Le géant de Seattle vient de s'offrir...

By |2017-11-14T21:06:22+00:00November 14th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

Cambridge Blockchain, la regtech américaine qui surfe sur la vague RGPD

Depuis l'ouverture de son bureau à Paris, les demandes des clients affluent, assure-t-il. "Nous avons remarqué une augmentation avec le GDPR. Par conséquent, nous avons designé notre logiciel avec les codes de GDPR comme le droit à l'oubli, le principe de minimisation des données, le rôle du data protection officer… Nous collaborons avec les Cnil...

By |2017-11-11T17:47:30+00:00November 11th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

#MedTech : Le réseau social hospitalier My Hospi Friends racheté par Télécom Santé – Maddyness

My Hospi Friends, fondé par Laurence Mégard et Julien Artu, est le premier réseau social affinitaire créé pour les patients hospitalisés. Facilitateur de rencontres, il permet aux patients de faire des rencontres et de réduire l’isolement subi durant leur séjour à l’hôpital. Ce média social rapproche les patients en fonction de leurs centres d’intérêts. Télécom...

By |2017-11-10T10:47:39+00:00November 10th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments

France’s largest web host loses power, taking down thousands of sites and leaving the French amused

Say this for the French: They manage to keep their sense of humor in the face of a crisis. First, a massive butter shortage has swept the country this fall. Now, much of the country has woken up to find itself with limited internet, thanks to a power outage that has kneecapped the country’s largest...

By |2017-11-10T10:46:17+00:00November 10th, 2017|Scoop.it|0 Comments