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Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:56 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar system in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google-backed Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap had promised the world a kickass future of AR few months back, and it has indeed lived up to its promise. The company teased the tech enthusiasts with a short video that showed a floating solar system and a floating drone in an office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The sight looks pretty amazing and real as you can not identify for a few seconds that if the drone is real or augmented real! The teaser was shown at the WSJD live event in California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Since the advent of Augmented and Virtual Reality concepts, many major brands like Facebook with its Oculus Rift and Microsoft with its HoloLens and startups have showed a keen interest in the development of this technology. Read How Virtual Reality works for a better understanding of the idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is not just that high-end gaming junkies or the scholars that are awaiting the arrival of the technology, Disney has even created an app for the young children that converts their drawings into 3D augmented reality characters.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch below the teaser by Magic Leap. I can’t wait to get myself a floating solar system in my office (I really hope to get more choices on what I want to have floating in my office though).</span></div>

Now Get A Floating Solar System In Your Office With Magic Leap

SP's: Augmented Reality startup Magic Leap gave a teaser of its developing technology at WSJD live event with a floating solar syst...

Are You Under the Attack of CCTV Botnet?

Shivam Patsariya 0 News, Security, tech 10:51 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Internet of Things are constantly being targeted by attackers to get the better off of the companies or individuals. CCTV surveillance cameras are generally preferred for the purpose. Make sure you do not come under the attack of CCTV botnet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are a number of instances reported every day where either a big company or individuals are targeted by the black hats. But, for quite some time now, IoT or Internet of Things have become the attackers’ fetish, and in that too it is the loosely protected surveillance cameras that catch the hackers’ eye the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now Incapsula security researchers have reported that their client was under a severe botnet attack by repeated HTTP GET flood attacks, peaking at around 20,000 RPS (request per second). As they went through the attacking IPs, they found that some of those unsecured cameras in the botnet were installed in their own backyards and the mall in front of their office!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The traffic originated from about 900 hacked CCTV cameras from around the world which had weak login SSH, Telnet passwords and those whose security was held ransom due to the default passwords. One thing that needs a special mention here is Shodan, a hacker search engine that stags all the IoTs in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, as Incapsula reported that most of the compromised CCTV cameras ran on BusyBox, a version of Linux built specifically for IoT devices. And these cameras were attacked with .btce malware which is designed for the BusyBox systems. Some of the devices were even launched with HTTP Get flood DDoS attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2014, there were about 245 million surveillance cameras operational worldwide. And that’s just a <a href="https://www.incapsula.com/blog/cctv-ddos-botnet-back-yard.html">reported </a>number, the actual figures could be way higher than this. In fact, there are cities like Beijing that are under the Skynet of surveillance cameras which can become easy targets for hackers.</span></div>
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Are You Under the Attack of CCTV Botnet?

SP's: Internet of Things are constantly being targeted by attackers to get the better off of the companies or individuals. CCTV sur...

This Hacker is Destroying Racist and Homophobic Websites One by One

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security, WebNdSocial 10:36 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>- A hacker that operates a Twitter handle named Amped Attacks, is taking down the websites spreading homophobia and racism one by one. Via the Twitter account, the hacker tweets the next targets and tells the world about its activities.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is a new vigilante hacker in town. This hacker goes by the name of Amped Attacks and is busy destroying the homophobic and racist websites one-by-one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The hacker Amped Attacks uses #tangotown in the tweets, a hashtag that is commonly used by the Anonymous hacktivist group. But, this doesn’t confirm Amped Attacks’ association with the Anonymous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">None of the official Twitter handlers have mentioned that Amped Attacks is working under their influence. The most recent target of the Amped Attack is website lionmakerstudios.org as shown in the tweet below (website is back online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this weekend, the hacker took down kkkknights.com and it even successfully targeted a website related to ISIS. In a recent tweet, the hacker warns another site:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It should be noted that these DDoS outages don’t last very long. So, it’s possible that the Amped Attacks is drawing our attention towards these websites and I don’t think that’s a bad thing to do.</span></div>
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i would personally like to thank all of you for the support its nice to see the people against racist and people that cyber bully</div>
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This Hacker is Destroying Racist and Homophobic Websites One by One

SP's: - A hacker that operates a Twitter handle named Amped Attacks, is taking down the websites spreading homophobia and racism one...

Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

Shivam Patsariya 0 GadgetsNdMachines, tech 10:27 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b> A year ago, Hendo was introduced and it claimed it to be the world’s first real hoverboard. The early demo videos showed that this claim had some credibility. Now, on the occasion of the Back to the Future day, Arx Pax has introduced a bigger and more advanced version as Hendo 2.0.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Arx Pax has finally released its new version of the world’s first real hoverboard in the form of Hendo 2.0. And, this happened on the Back to the Future day – and it wasn’t any coincident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Celebrating the Back to the Future day, the company teased the new details and a demo of Hendo 2.0. The new version is bigger and more rideable than the one shown last year. Now it has a  real skateboard deck with grip tape and other things to include.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The hoverboard deck sits on the conventional skateboard trucks that house the hover engines. Now, the riders can shift their weights just like a real skateboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can watch the video below to see the public demo:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While a cheaper and more efficient hoverboard could be the thing of the future, Hendo 2.0 has managed to catch everyone’s attention and fulfill its actual plans.</span></div>
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Meet Hendo 2.0: World’s First Real Hoverboard’s Advanced Version

SP's: A year ago, Hendo was introduced and it claimed it to be the world’s first real hoverboard. The early demo videos showed that...

‘Facebook TechPrep’ Will Help You Learn To Code

Shivam Patsariya 0 Business, tech, WebNdSocial 10:17 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Facebook, is thus offering its new initiative Facebook TechPrep which will help to quench the curiosity of the students, expose parents and guardians to the computer science and create an environment of computer learning in the underrepresented groups by providing resources to all these people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The resource hub, Facebook TechPrep will curate to the users the solutions to their requirements as per the individual skills such as the age of the learner, skill level and what kind of education they are interested in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The TechPrep program specifically targets the unaware public and the parents who find themselves helpless in guiding their children in the field of computer learning.</span></div>
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Today we’re launching TechPrep -- a website to help people start programming careers.It shows parents and students what programming is, why it’s important, and what sort of jobs are available for those who can code. It guides people to resources to get started -- everything from classes to college prep. And it features real stories from people from under-represented groups who’ve used the resources to start careers in tech. Improving diversity in the tech industry is an important challenge, and something we’re deeply committed to at Facebook. Everyone should be able to take advantage of the opportunities created by the internet. Giving everyone the opportunity to learn to code will create even more valuable tools to serve society. Through research with McKinsey, we found that there are very few resources in particular for Black or Hispanic learners, and we wanted to change this. We’ve also put together resources for parents and guardians so they can provide young people with advice and support. We hope this is a valuable resource for people in our community, and that it helps makes a small contribution towards making our industry more diverse. Check out TechPrep at: https://techprep.fb.com<br />
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10 Best Features of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf

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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">SP's: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu 15.10 is now released by Canonical and available for download. Read this article, know the features of Ubuntu 15.10 and take your upgrade decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After six months in development, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf is released and available for download. You can either download the ISO images – or upgrade your existing Ubuntu 15.04 running system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this article, we are here to tell you the 10 best features of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. Let’s take a look:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 is based on the kernel version 4.2, which was released in the August end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Among the major improvements in Linux 4.2, there is new AMD GPU kernel driver support, new ARM development board support, NV-DIMM support, F2FS file-system encryption support and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu’s default desktop shell Unity has been given small fixes and improvements in 15.10. It offers a preview of Unity 8, Canonical’s next-gen user interface. One of the major noticeable change is Ubuntu leaving behind the Unity’s overlay scrollbars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now you can drag and drop apps from Unity Dash to the desktop, session exit button now have a click effect, page up/down keyboard navigation works like a scroll in the Dash, and many other minor improvements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu Make is a command line utility that allows easier installation of popular developer tools. Now it supports even more platforms, services and frameworks, and a complete Android development environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 comes with the OpenStack 2014 2.0 which is codenamed Liberty. This open source software for creating private and public clouds is now in sync with the Ubuntu development cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The latest Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distro comes with stateless persistent network interface names. This means that naming the network interface with more comprehensive names is now possible and they’ll remain valid even after a restart or change in hardware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With the Ubuntu 15.10, there comes the upgraded GNOME 3.16.x and the most of the GNOME 3.16 applications have been now added. This could also be upgraded to GNOME 3.18. The MATE desktop used by the Ubuntu MATE is now version 1.10.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">LXD for containers was debuted in Ubuntu 15.04, but is now production ready and comes with more capabilities like those of a virtual machine. According to Canonical, now you have the ability to take snapshot images and live container migration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Ubuntu 15.10 has native Steam Controller support out of the box and the gamers don’t need any tweaks or modifications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All you need to do is install Steam using the Ubuntu package in the software center and plugin you new controller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Ubuntu 15.10 has arrived with GCC 5 and Python 3.x support. Developers will have to wait for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, that will makes Python 3.x default.</span></div>
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Linux Ubuntu 15.10 Finally Released, Download Year’s 2nd Biggest Release

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>SP's: </b>Linux Ubuntu 15.10, this year’s second Ubuntu release is finally here. You can find the download link below or check for the update in you already Ubuntu 15.04 running system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Canonical has finally unwrapped the Linux Ubuntu 15.10 distro. Ubuntu 15.10 is also referred to as the Wily Werewolf and it follows the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet release of April 23.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 comes with the latest OpenStack cloud computing platform and two new Canonical technologies: Autopilot tools for managing OpenStack deployment and LXD for containers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Linux Ubuntu 15.10 is based on the Linux kernel 4.2 that was unveiled on August 20th. Ubuntu 15.10 comes with new security and bug fixes and 9 months support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You can grab the official ISO image of Linux Ubuntu 15.10 from the links below or look for the upgrade in already running Ubuntu 15.04.</span></div>
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Doodle 4 Google Contest Wants to You to Draw What Makes You…You

Shivam Patsariya 0 WebNdSocial 1:08 PM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>SP's: </b>This year’s Doodle 4 Google contest has been flagged off by Google on October 19, asking to create something refreshing this time, an art unprecedented. The theme is ‘What makes me…me’</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you always wonder how Google come up with amazing doodles every other day? Well, it is just sheer creativity and an intense desire of expression. Now, you or your child can be a part of it too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google has opened its <a href="http://www.google.de/doodle4google/">Google Doodle contest</a> in which the tech giant has asked the students from kindergarten to 12th grade to show their creativity and artistic side to the world. For that, Google has spread its homepage canvas for all the budding artists and if you are a lucky winner not only your Doodle will be displayed on its homepage but you’ll be rewarded with a college scholarship of $30,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Google has asked the students to come up with refreshing ideas while telling the world “What makes me…me”, which is the theme of the Google Doodle contest by the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Doodle 4 Google contest will continue till December 7, 2015, so everyone would get ample time to submit their best art. Children can use any material while creating a Doodle which shows their uniqueness. It could be crayons, clay and even graphic designs. However, there is only one condition, the Doodle must incorporate the letters G-o-o-g-l-e. Fair enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, what are you waiting for! Get on with your drawing sheets and tell the world what makes you…you.</span></div>
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Future of Machine Learning: Business Implications and Big Data

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at its vast potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Read more to get an insight about the future business implications of machine learning.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The business world is so susceptible to fads and buzzwords that it has become a joke. That is why the rise of big data hasn’t been getting as much attention as it deserves. It is also unfortunate that big data is a tech concept, and recent developments in the tech sector have prompted some business journalists to ask if the economy is producing a tech bubble similar to the end of the 1990s. The truth is that big data is not just a fad or a bubble — it is a major and transformative force for the world economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having good access to information and being able to spread information quickly has been a hallmark of great revolutions in technology, from Gutenberg’s first printing press to the rise of the telegraph during the American Civil War, Bell’s work with the telephone, and, of course, the Internet. Both communications and data collection are fundamental not only for business decisions but also for medicine, governance, and many other fields. Big data is a quantitative evolution of the way people can accumulate information, but the sheer scale of large datasets yields an unprecedented level of detail for many applications. The difficulty of creating and manipulating a large dataset is dropping by the month, with simple <a href="http://atscale.com/bi-on-hadoop/">Hadoop </a>reporting taking the place of cumbersome SAS jobs and other outdated tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consider auto insurance. Right now, auto insurance carriers use complex statistical models that use demographic information about their customers to predict which of them are most likely to get into an accident and make a claim. They need to pay actuaries large amounts of money to build and test these models, and then they base their pricing on the models’ results. Recently, however, some insurers have decided to start using actual driving habits to price their products. They ask customers to install a device that plugs into their car and records speed, how fast the driver brakes, how tight they turn, and other metrics. Then they use that data to predict accidents over time as well as use this information to generate a more personalized <a href="http://www.netquote.com/auto-insurance">auto insurance quotes comparison</a>. This is a striking and creative use of data to solve a business problem: pricing, but in the near future it could go even further. Fine enough data would let the device predict when a driver was intoxicated, tired, or distracted based on their driving actions. This kind of data could save lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Data collection about <a href="http://www.nursetogether.com/why-personalized-medicine-isnt-far-away">patient health records</a> could be subjected to machine learning analysis, helping doctors predict disease and illness with better certainty than they can now. On the dark side of big data, governments can train machine learning programs on datasets containing the personal information of their citizens, making it easier to monitor their daily lives. It is a fine balance between using machine learning and big data to improve people’s lives and violating privacy on a massive scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now, it comes down to case by case judgments. The legal system is not well equipped to handle questions pertaining to the details of statistics and technology, but that will need to change. Big data is not as flashy as some previous technological revolutions because it takes place in the silent realm of software, and machine learning is a much more obtuse concept than the telephone or the printed book. However, its potential to transform society is just as large, and big data stands poised to alter the way we think about privacy, prediction, business, and relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The proliferation of new applications for machine learning hints at this potential. Companies, governments, and researchers innovate new ways to mine big data for useful insights constantly. All it takes is some creativity and computing resources to turn data into intelligence. Machine learning threatens to alter entire fields, like medicine and law, and to forever change the way we think about information. Soon, gleaning insight from data won’t be the exclusive realm of humans, but of algorithms. The task that remains in the hands of people is to decide what to do with that insight.</span></div>
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