Welcome to our weekly selection of digital innovation news. Based on our opinionated always changing automated token based selection algorithm we present some top innovation news to get you thinking, debating and collaboration on making our world better.
1 Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room
The three researchers fed a neural network a living room scene: A man seated on the edge of a shabby chair leans forward as he plays a video game. In some trials, the elephant led the neural network to misidentify the chair as a couch. In another, researchers waylaid a neural network by placing an image of a psychedelically colored toaster alongside ordinary objects like a banana. The neural network started getting its pixels crossed. The specific type of AI system that performs this process is called a neural network.
2 South Africa startup Wala wins Zambezi Prize for micropayments platform
The summit also wrapped up the 2018 Open Mic Africa tour, a Pan-African event series designed to invigorate and celebrate entrepreneurial ecosystems across the continent. The Zambezi Prize and the Open Mic Africa tour are pillars of the Legatum Center’s Africa Strategy — a global vision to leverage MIT’s ecosystem to improve lives through principled entrepreneurial leadership. The Mastercard Foundation and several leading organizations attended this year’s Open Mic Africa Summit to engage with the new cohort and other area entrepreneurs. The summit culminated in the award ceremony for the Zambezi Prize and for the IIC Africa, with Wala being honored as the $100,000 grand prize winner. As the Zambezi Prize winner, Wala will join Lynk, Wefarm, and Solar Freeze, the three other winners of the IIC Africa Prize, to represent Africa at the global tournament, which awards over $1 million in prizes.
3 Leading the Charge to an Electric Future: Audi Unveils E-Tron SUV
Some companies ride the current of innovation. Others lead the charge into new technologies. Amid a crowd of 1,600 reporters and guests in the San Francisco Bay Area, NVIDIA partner Audi unveiled its latest trailblazing vehicle: the e-tron SUV, built to accelerate the age of electric powertrains.
4 Using Data Science to Avoid Global Pricing Chaos
Technology and e-commerce have revolutionized the way consumers buy everyday products. My startup, Ragtrades, used big data to explore just how big a problem this is. One likely reason: Companies that have started to collect and process big data still aren’t getting all the information they need. Make sure your big data technology gathers and alerts you and your management teams right away. We aggregated figures from 20 major luxury and contemporary fashion brands and 50 retailers.
5 Plug-and-play technology automates chemical synthesis
Designing a new chemical synthesis can be a laborious process with a fair amount of drudgery involved — mixing chemicals, measuring temperatures, analyzing the results, then starting over again if it doesn’t work out. To achieve that, the team designed a plug-and-play system with several different modules that can be combined to perform different types of synthesis. Other processes such as separation can also occur as the chemicals flow through the system. With this approach, the chemical reagents flow through a series of tubes, and new chemicals can be added at different points. A few years ago, Jensen and Jamison developed a continuous flow system that can rapidly produce pharmaceuticals on demand.
6 The European Union Versus the Internet
The first quotation is from EU Directive 2001/29/EC which is explicitly evoked in the new Copyright Directive, from whence comes the second quotation. 5. The Copyright Directive, though, would shift the bias towards false positive: it mistakes are made, it is that allowable content will be blocked for fear of liability. From EUbusiness: > Internet tech giants including Google and Facebook could be made to monitor, filter and block internet uploads under amendments to the draft Copyright Directive approved by the EU Parliament Wednesday. The Copyright Directive, on the other hand, requires Internet Platforms to act as de facto enforcement mechanisms of that government monopoly, and the only logical response is to go too far. This exception, along with the removal of an explicit call for filtering (that will still be necessary in practice), was enough to get the Copyright Directive passed.
7 New technologies and 21st century children
Building digital resilience is an important skill for 21st century children. This paper provides a synthesis of the literature on and recent trends in new technologies and its effect on 21st century children (0-18 years old). A focus on younger children (primary school or younger) and the effects of new emerging technologies would be helpful for future research.
It begins by providing an overview of recent trends in the access and use of new technologies as well as a summary of online opportunities and risks. It then explores a variety of factors, including economic, social and cultural status which underlie these trends and lead to online and offline inequalities.
(OECD Education Working Papers)
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