«The online retailer is inviting people to an office in New York to measure small changes in size and shape over the course of 20 weeks. Those chosen via a survey to participate in the 10, semimonthly visits will receive Amazon gift cards worth up to $250, according to an invitation reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We are interested in understanding how bodies change shape over time,” according to the survey. The invite comes from Amazon’s new 3-D body scanning unit, an outgrowth of its acquisition last year of computer vision startup Body Labs.
Accurately predicting how a pair of jeans or a suit will fit is a Holy Grail for retail. Technology to model a human body and how clothing will look on it has a wide range of applications, from being able to prevent returns of ill-fitting garments to on-demand printing and production».
Mois : mai 2018 (Page 5 of 5)
«Today, we collectively and continuously document our city experience on social media platforms, shaping a virtual city image. Multiplicity reveals a novel view of this photographic landscape of attention and interests. How does Paris look as seen through the lens of thousands of photographers? What are the hotspots of attraction, what are the neglected corners? What are recurring poses and tropes? And how well do the published pictures reflect your personal view of the city?» – Via Nicolas Nova
Source : Truth & Beauty – Multiplicity
«DARPA’s MediFor program brings together world-class researchers to attempt to level the digital imagery playing field, which currently favors the manipulator, by developing technologies for the automated assessment of the integrity of an image or video and integrating these in an end-to-end media forensics platform. If successful, the MediFor platform will automatically detect manipulations, provide detailed information about how these manipulations were performed, and reasonoverall integrity of visual media to facilitate decisions regarding the use of any questionable image or video».
Source : Media Forensics
«We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that are stored in Twitter’s system. This allows our systems to validate your account credentials without revealing your password. This is an industry standard. Due to a bug, passwords were written to an internal log before completing the hashing process. We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again».
Source : Keeping your account secure
«Today, we’re announcing plans to build Clear History. This feature will enable you to see the websites and apps that send us information when you use them, delete this information from your account, and turn off our ability to store it associated with your account going forward. Apps and websites that use features such as the Like button or Facebook Analytics send us information to make their content and ads better. We also use this information to make your experience on Facebook better.
If you clear your history or use the new setting, we’ll remove identifying information so a history of the websites and apps you’ve used won’t be associated with your account. We’ll still provide apps and websites with aggregated analytics – for example, we can build reports when we’re sent this information so we can tell developers if their apps are more popular with men or women in a certain age group. We can do this without storing the information in a way that’s associated with your account, and as always, we don’t tell advertisers who you are».
Source : Getting Feedback on New Tools to Protect People’s Privacy | Facebook Newsroom
Facebook announced it’s getting into the dating space.
Match Group investors are freaking out. pic.twitter.com/1tXdPWRZYS
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) 1 mai 2018
«Users who are single and interested in dating can set up a dating profile within their existing Facebook account. It won’t be visible to friends or family, or show up in News Feed, and will only appear for other people using the dating service».
Source : Facebook F8 2018: Facebook is launching a new dating service – Recode
«Il ne faut pas confondre l’acceptation des CGU, qui relève du droit des contrats et du droit de la consommation, et le consentement libre de l’utilisateur à un traitement de données personnelles. Toute la question est de savoir si les données collectées sont nécessaires à la fourniture du service. Si c’est le cas, la notification d’une mise à jour des conditions d’utilisation est contractuellement possible. Mais l’acceptation « automatique » de cette mise à jour ne vaut pas consentement à des collectes et des traitements de données qui ne seraient pas nécessaires».
Source : Données personnelles : pourquoi Facebook et les autres annoncent-ils des mises à jour ? – Libération