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Friday, February 26, 2016
Ticket robots can buy lots of tickets – Göteborgs-Posten
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Today you can buy tickets to Bruce Springsteen on Ullevi. But fans are already hopelessly behind ticket robots?
The hunt for tickets to the biggest events become more intense each time. Baiting when Håkan Hellström sold out two out Ullevi Stadium in just a few hours was enormous and the pressure for places to Beyoncé at Friends Arena was hard. Now Bruce Springsteen returns to his audience Ullevi has agonized in various Facebook wires already weeks before the ticket release. Should I believe Eric Schneiderman at the prosecutor’s office in New York is their concern justified.
– Ticket is a pre-arranged match, said Schneiderman earlier this year when he presented a 44 pages thick investigation of the details of a number of major ticket release in New York.
According to Schneider’s report is on average only 46 percent of tickets to major concerts and sporting events in the United States that are available to the public. Once the tickets are released have already sixteen percent of the tickets put aside for professionals (artists, organizers, sponsors, media), and another 38 percent were sold in the presale. In the US, it is common to holders of example, some credit cards have priority, something that is becoming more common even in Sweden.
– There is a change in that direction throughout the industry which also meets consumer expectations of different kinds package solutions. But it is important to remember that it is not at all the same extent as in the US. It is completely different kinds of markets. In order to Springsteen’s concert as an example, there are no presale tickets at all, but it’s only Thursday’s ticket release relating says Kristofer Akesson at Live Nation, as on other concerts do not have any specific figures on how much of the tickets do not go on general sale.
– it varies between artists and tours, but there is always a greatly limited number of tickets in cases where there is advance purchase at all, he says.
in the United States, as in Sweden, the the multinational Ticketmaster (TicketMaster) that manages ticket sales. Ticketmaster is in turn a part of Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
In the US, you are open to fight against so-called “bots,” software that takes past the ticket queues, is tough. You try to fend off the robots by the ticket buyer to click on pictures depicting trees or house facades. According to Schneiderman, however, the developers of the software ahead. Their “bots” takes the queue, Doctor “I’m not a robot test” and can reserve a large number of tickets by taking advantage of the time the system gives the usual ticket buyer to fix the payment.
as an example, Schneiderman show how a single robot managed to buy 1012 tickets during the course of a minute to U2’s concert in Madison Square Garden. The prosecutor also shows how a robot Beyoncé bought 520 tickets to the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn in three minutes. As in the Swedish market are the tickets quickly out on the second-hand market. To multiply the prices.
Whether Eric Schneiderman nor industry representatives have any ready answers for how to deal with the problem but at TicketMaster working continuously to make the system safer.
– the problem with “robots” is significantly larger in the US than in Europe and England. But we update yet our systems and has recently gone over to the CAPTCHA is Google’s latest any tools to distinguish robots from real ticket buyers, says Giles Cooper, public relations manager at Ticket Masters England office.
– We also own methods to stop the robots, our goal is always that real fans will he fair access to tickets.
Before Springsteen release, some of the fans tried to take matters into their own hands. In a closed Facebook group help each other with tips and have a system where you sell on any spare tickets for the starting price.
NYT: Apple is developing stronger protection for phones – Swedish YLE
Technology giant Apple is currently developing new security measures that would make it virtually impossible to “break into” in a locked phone, as reported by the New York Times.
According to experts in IT security magazine talked with Apple has very good potential to succeed in developing a system that does not allow intrusion.
It is the question of a counter Apple’s against the federal authorities in the United States requiring that Apple makes it easier to access information from your phone if it is locked.
A trace of the terror investigation
The FBI is in the process of an investigation into a masskjutning that occurred in San Bernadino, California, in December last year.
Then shot two people to death 14 people and wounded 22 in an attack at a Christmas party for employees of local government before they themselves were killed in exchange of fire with the police.
Investigators have one offender telephone and suspect that the important information, but you will not be around the lock on the phone.
Apple phones includes technology that cleans out all the information from a locked phone, if you try to open it by using the wrong PIN ten times. The phones are made in a way that implies that only the manufacturer’s operating systems in them.
The FBI now wants Apple to develop new software that would bypass several security features and mount it on the phone that FBI investigators had seized in connection with the terror investigation.
“What can they demand from us in the future?”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has expressed its concern over the situation. He took to the media to defend the company.
– If the law could require new software from us, what can they demand from us in the future? This kind of thing should not happen in our country, Cook said in an interview with the news channel ABC.
When asked what he would say to the mass killer’s victims, who want Apple helps investigators, responding conditioned Cook:
– They have my deepest sympathies and what they went through should not have to go through. Apple has cooperated with the FBI in full in this case, they have asked us for any information we have about this phone, and we gave them all the information we had.
Cook said he wants to negotiate on the matter with President Barack Obama.
Thursday, February 25, 2016
First impression of Panasonic’s new rugged – Mobile
This summer I tested Panasonic’s rugged Android mobile FZ-X1, and it was something extraordinary. Thick and heavy as five glued top models from Sony or Samsung, with a battery life about twice as long as anything we have measured, and moreover continued to move even when you took out the battery. A second battery allowed you to change the battery during operation.
The new FZ-F1 and N1 (like their predecessors, they are in Windows and Android version) feels comparably to more normal rugged mobiles, less than half as thick as the forerunners but at the expense of battery life, the battery is 3200 mAh (if you do not use the extra thick double battery of 6400 mAh), but it is still possible to change operating. It is not so very heavy either.
stands out, figuratively and literally, makes barcode reader. Most phones can use the camera to read barcodes, but here we are talking about a professional laser reader that can be used elsewhere. This is the phone for professionals, such as courier companies or the train crew and according to Jonathan Tucker Panasonic is slightly more than half of their products specially rebuilt for the customer, and nearly all sold have some form of customization.
Even predecessor had barcode scanner, but that it is at an angle to the receiver now offers significantly better ergonomics. You can use it without burdening the wrist as much, and you can view the screen while scanning the bar code.
Jonathan Tucker also shows an active stylus that know the difference between different pressures, which are available as accessories. He also demonstrates software that can compare the signatures. There is a charging cradle which also comes as rack of multiple devices, and there is mounting for a strap for better grip in hand.
The price is just over 15,000 per unit, and the Android version is expected to begin in early summer, while the version with Windows 10 comes at the end of the summer.
– the time difference is due to problems with Windows 10 more than the hardware, said Jonathan Tucker.
The guru has become an obsolete squiggle – New Technology
One would think that it is a development that pleased Richard Stallman, the man widely regarded as the father of the project with open source. But nothing could be further from the truth.
When he recently was in Stockholm to give a lecture about his attitude to the open and free software, it was clear that Richard Stallman is not softened before the big companies in the same way as the for the idea that it is good to share. The only Richard Stallman like less than Apple, Google and Microsoft are themselves open source movement, and writers like me who are trying to make him a part of it.
The indignation stems from a difference in perspective. Richard Stallman’s software freedom and openness of ethics. For large companies and their customers, it is a practical consideration. Stallman believes that to be free it is necessary to have control over the software running on their computer and have it must be able to take part of the code, change it and share it on.
companies like Google or Microsoft, it is important that the code will spread and that many developers can participate and contribute. Even popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu dismissed by Stallman as apostates, because they see open source as a practical tool and not primarily as a political act.
It is not difficult to give Stallman the right parts of the analysis : big companies are following our digital tracks in every detail to maximize their own profits. But to be with and guide the development in the direction you want to have to be able to listen and to compromise. Stallman has stuck in their own world and are not good at any of this.
He likes such as cash because it does not leave traces. However ashamed he was not to ask people in the audience at the lecture on speed dial numbers on a note to later withdraw funds for the purchase of promotional materials from the organization Free Software Foundation, which he represents.
A compelling example of the difficulties of being uncompromising is a story Richard Stallman talks about when he’ll see the movie at the home of a friend. Since the film is available on Netflix and Netflix uses copy protection, you must film evening set. It had not worked on his friend enjoyed the movie bluray because neither the discs can be played using free software.
One way of looking at it is that Stallman with his hard-line style want to set an example for their “fans”. But after seeing him perform and sell the stickers to the audience in Stockholm, I get the feeling more of a funny squiggle of a bygone era.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
China’s cyber criminals are becoming more global – Epoch Times Sweden (press release)
A report of the study group Flashpoint show that Chinese cybercriminals are developing their business and become more global. The people in the picture has nothing to do with the article. (Photo: Gou Yige / AFP / Getty Images)
China’s cyber criminals have become more organized, and keeps on building a stronger presence in international markets and Internet forums used iT criminals.
Flashpoint, a group that investigated the internets ‘dark’ parts, released February 19 a report saying that China has long had a large and relatively stable group of the web’s underworld, but it now is changing.
“Deep web” is an invisible part of the internet. A large part consists only of code and data, other parts are web pages that are not searchable in Google, or that are password protected.
But there is a part of the lower web world, sometimes called “darknet”, and can only be accessed with a special software. It is an illegal market, where you can do everything from buying drugs to hire “torpedoes” to threaten, mistreat or kill anyone. There is also sold stolen data and new tools for criminal activity on the Internet.
“According to the report, many Chinese cybercriminals are starting to enter the forums within the Russian underworld instead of build their own systems. “
Less professional
” Most of the trading is done via automatic trading venues and platforms that caters to a wide audience, where it barely requires any contact between sellers and buyers, “says the report.
There have always been many Chinese cybercriminals on the darknet, but they have previously been poorly organized and comparatively less professional.
While other Internet criminals have digital storefronts where they sell stolen credit cards or data, Chinese cybercriminals often continued to use direct communications to individual stores.
often used tools Tieba Baidu and QQ Messenger. It is roughly comparable to using Google Chat or Instant Messenger to sell stolen goods.
Sometimes they advertised through their criminal online activity on regular forums, including at sites where people discuss real estate, gaming and entertainment .
Change in recent years
This is in sharp contrast to the professionalism and maturity that characterizes the Russian underworld, where direct transactions only occur in really big business.
But the past year there has been a change in the Chinese internet crime.
Read more: REVIEW: China’s international theft industry
researchers at Flashpoint, who followed Chinese cybercriminals on the darknet during 2015 has seen more and more signs that they are about to grow and branch out internationally.
According to the report, many Chinese cybercriminals are starting to enter the forums within the Russian underworld in place to build up their own systems.
the report notes that the Chinese probably chose the Russian system because they do not have such strict criteria. Usually accept the users who neither speaks Russian or English.
So far we seem therefore have only seen the beginning of this shift, but if the Chinese joins a larger cyberbrottsnät may result in a more globalized structure IT crime.
Topics: cyber warfare darknet
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
We do not think we should have more than other groups, but a living wage based on the … – Norra Västerbotten
A permanent worker firefighter in Skelleftea rescue has 24,200 crowns in salary. “There are too poorly paid for a handyman,” said Lorents Lindeberg.
He has worked as a firefighter for more than 30 years and adds:
we do not think we should have more than other groups, but a living wage based on the risks we take.
– we’ll be a little bit about a lot and an alarm may look little anyway.
Employers: “the starting salary has been raised”
Lars Nilsson and Thure Jonsson has also passed the 30- mark the number of years of service.
– When we receive an alarm so we go out and are expected to solve the task no matter what happened, said Lars Nilsson.
– we say of course not ” that we can not solve, you can send someone else, “adds Thure Jonsson.
union ” Upgrade firefighters, otherwise diminishes the interest in the profession “
in terms of skills, duties and requirements for breadth in their knowledge bank, they say that the development of shooting.
– However, wage growth is not on par with what we’re capable of today says Thure Jonsson.
Lars Nilsson today has a base salary of 24,850 crowns and Thure Jonsson earn 26 350. Both have 42-hour working week.
today’s firefighters have a variety of missions . In addition to fires and accidents, alarms can include emissions of hazardous substances with the risk of explosions and / or poisoning, accidents and fires in the mines, rescue missions in rugged terrain, BA and another that requires strength, knowledge, perseverance and tight cooperation. Moreover, they risk becoming infected, including through the blood, for example accidents.
– The requirements for digital skills with new software has also increased, says Thure Jonsson.
A couple of weeks ago killed a firefighter in the service. He was hit in the rescue work at the scene of an accident. The accident occurred in the south of Sweden.
– We have had several incidents in traffic accidents. A year was extremely close to one of us was hit by a car and threatened to get the legs cut off in a rescue operation at the scene of an accident, says Thure Jonsson.
To the rescue is under the municipal umbrella believe they affect salary.
– We compete with everyone else on the municipal money. But it’s not that we think we should have more than other groups, but also to get a fair payment based on the risks we take and the skills required to perform our duties, says Lars Nilsson.
A regular firefighter salary ob-compensation. To be considered for the higher surcharges, will be up on at supervisor level, such as team leader or incident commander.
– A team leader with the greatest mandate and responsibilities, for example, a traffic accident, says Åke Dahlqvist who holds the title.
Why do you think the firefighter profession is so popular, despite wages, which you think is bad?
– the camaraderie. We are a close-knit bunch that back each other up, says Thure Jonsson.
Joel Andersson, who worked at the emergency services in Skelleftea nine years adds:
– The profession is so glorified so I think that salary is secondary.
He has a 2-year postsecondary firefighter training, which is relatively new.
Thure Jonsson is also engaged in POSOM group. As it is, among other things, to meet relatives in shock and grief. It also implies a tension and great professionalism in treatment.
In addition to the skills required to become a firefighter today includes physical requirements. Tests carried out each year and all must be approved. If one fails, the test is about. This places high demands on keeping the body in shape.
– It is a legal requirement that all should be tested once a year and training during working hours are also available in our regulations, says Thure Jonsson.
What do you think is a reasonable starting salary for a firefighter?
– Yes, SEK 30 000 would be fair considering all the risks and requirements, he said.
This price presses with open project – New Technology
Facebook’s Open Compute Project, where the company will share its technology for the servers in their data centers to create greater demand and lower prices, has saved the company two billion US dollars since it started. It says company founder Mark Zuckerberg from the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Now he wants to repeat the same trick, but for mobile networks. The expansion of mobile broadband is too slow for Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg. He is not satisfied with the pace when it comes to give us that already have mobile data faster networks, or to connect the billions of people who still do not have access to the Internet.
– I hope to focus on more bandwidth but also that we continue to do our job to connect all the people, said Mark Zuckerberg.
with the initiative Telecom Infrastructure Project, TIP, will this work with operators and equipment vendors to develop new methods for to build mobile networks cheaper. With him in this project, including Nokia, Intel promised to share a set of reference designs in hardware. In addition, several mobile operators in the group who should be involved and use the technology developed.
Just like in the Open Compute, the structures that are developed in the project to be open, and this describes it, available to operators without they need to take a package from a manufacturer which will give them greater flexibility when building their networks.
TIP will focus on technologies for several parts of the mobile network including software to control networks. Eventually, the idea is that TIP will also contribute to the development of new standards for 5G.
Facebook has already launched a first project based on the TIP to connect a village in the Philippines, together with the operator Globe. Mark Zuckerberg hopes that the TIP can achieve success also in India where his previously attempted with a free version of a limited internet recently declared illegal. When asked what he learned from the setbacks of India said Mark Zuckerberg.
– The fact that things work differently in different countries.
The effort to produce cheaper and faster mobile networks go hand in hand Mark Zuckerberg’s vision that video will grow substantially on Facebook.
– video is not an end station, said Mark Zuckerberg.
with the VR developer Oculus and a strong personal interest in virtual reality traces Mark Zuckerberg that our next space consuming media to take place in the mobile networks.
Mark Zuckerberg is tury that Facebook does not have a business model to make money in either its earlier project to connect people with drones and satellite or TIP.
– But when people connect to and use Facebook, we have a business model that we know works, he says.
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APPLE: BILL GATES TAKES FBI’S PARTY IN QUESTION OF TERROR COOPERATION – Dagens Industri
APPLE: BILL GATES TAKES FBI’S PARTY IN QUESTION OF TERROR COOPERATION
2016-02-23 11:04
STOCKHOLM (AFX) In the recent showdown between the FBI and Apple, which is about help unlock a terrorist Iphone, now get the FBI support from a well-known voice from IT world. Bill Gates think that technology companies should be required to cooperate with the police in cases involving terrorism.
It writes the Financial Times.
Microsoft founder turns against Apple CEO Tim Cook’s description of government orders as a requirement that a “back door” installed, which could be seen as a long-term courteous.
“this is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for anything in general but ask in a special case, “said Bill Gates to the Financial Times.
According to Gates, it is no different from cases where telecom operators or banks to disclose information on the police request.
Apple war of words with US police took off in the last week, since a judge ordered the company to create software that makes it possible for the FBI to unlock the iPhone that belongs to Syed Rizwan Farook – one of the shooters in the terrorist attack in San Bernardino in California in December, where 14 people were killed and 22 seriously injured.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called the request a “chilling” example of the government risks creating a dangerous precedent that threatens civil liberties.
Bill Gates’s position puts him on the opposite side from the majority of the technology industry – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Google boss Sundar Pichai, all taken Tim Cook’s party.
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Monday, February 22, 2016
Intel Security presents new mobile hotrapport and security cooperation during … – Mynewsdesk (press release)
To protect their mobile device effectively becomes increasingly important as our existence was shot with mobile phones increasingly. In conjunction with this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona releases Intel Security is a new report on mobile security threats and publishes security partnerships with Samsung and LG for the latest generation of smartphones.
That it is high time to malware on mobile phones in earnest, is an inevitable conclusion from the data presented in the Intel Security’s latest mobile hotrapport, which can be read in its entirety here. In a comparison between the third and fourth quarter of 2015 could show how the volume of malware on mobile phones increased by 24 percent. Today’s cyber crimes Mobile the fastest growing, when criminals become increasingly inclined to focus on mobile devices. Three million mobile devices were affected only through mobile marketplaces over the past six months.
Therefore, the company has now developed a mobile security solution for the latest handsets from Samsung and LG, the Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5. With this partnership Samsung will be able to take their security for the Galaxy S6 and LG G4 step further – a strengthening of the security already contributed to a safer mobile experience for the 40 million Samsung Galaxy S6 users. Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 and S7 Edge Edge Plus and LG G5, will by this be preloaded with security tool McAfee® VirusScan Mobile Security.
– We have become increasingly dependent on our mobile phones and use them to manage our most important and sensitive data, from banking to private or job-related conversations. For each mobile generation to come new features and capabilities, but each opportunity also represents a risk when large amounts of sensitive data exposed in our mobiles, it is extremely important that we plan on having an updated protection, just like we are used to when it comes to our computers. In cooperation with Samsung we can help ensure that this type of protection is in place from the start, so users do not have to worry, says Christoffer Callender, security expert at Intel Security. McAfee® Mobile Security – McAfee VirusScan
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Keeps track of my dog - now they want to reach more people – New Technology
The Mobile World Congress is not just a playground for the giants of the mobile industry. On site there are also a large number of small technology companies who hope for breakthrough. One of them is Imagimob looking for new partners for its technology to recognize movements. Like many other Swedish companies, they are part of the Business Sweden’s collection booth at the show.
Imagimob has developed an algorithm that can be used to recognize different types of movements. The company hopes to electronics manufacturers to build into their hardware to track the movements of things, people and animals.
– So far we have sold software to customers who have their own hardware platform. Now, we have developed a custom hardware design optimized so that we have a customer can sell both hardware and software, says Anders Hardebring, CEO and founder of Imagimob.
The new hardware will lower the threshold for the who wants to use its algorithm. The hardware and the algorithm is called Sensor Beat and launched during the Mobile World Congress.
The combined module is already being tested by a company that builds a product that allows dog owners to measure how their dogs move during the day when they are alone at home. But Anders Hardebring see that the technology has far greater potential than that advanced pedometer for pets.
– It can be helmets, goggles, clothing, power tools, vehicles. This is really very wide, he said.
What sets Imagimobs algorithm from other companies’ technology to track the movements are according to him, just that it is more general and can be easily adapted to all possible applications.
– this is based on artificial intelligence, so if we work with a particular client and a particular application so we can easily, by training the software to recognize a particular movement without having to go in and encode a particular application, says Anders Hardebring.
the company’s module will also be able to save both power and connectivity needs of users.
– Much of the internet of things is that it has sensors located and currents data to cloud services, but we are putting intelligence out there in the gadget. When lying, and streams of data, it takes a lot of battery, and if you have many sensors as there will also be large amounts of data to manage, he says.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings for throwing School – Mynewsdesk (press release)
Brian Eno’s first permanent public artwork in Sweden’s 77 Million Paintings for throwing School and was commissioned by the property company Huge Fastigheter AB in Huddinge.
The artwork is also the latest phase in the development of his internationally known work 77 Million Paintings. Bidding now for the first time Brian Eno others to contribute their own photos to artwork, namely students in preschool and school throw in Flemingsberg.
About Brian Eno
Brian Eno was born in 1948, lives and works in London. He is a musician, composer, producer and artist. Eno is a prominent figure in the ambient music * and one of the foremost innovators of generative art **.
Through its experimental and extensive production has Eno since the 1970s onwards a unique influence on the culture, music and art. He has released over 30 albums and as many in various collaborations and produced 40 albums for other musicians. U2, Coldplay, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Robert Fripp and Karl Hyde are just a few examples of partners. Eno has also written music for a number of television and movie productions, created the startup sound for Windows 95 apps and produced by creative opportunities to the user.
Enos art shown repeatedly in exhibitions around the world. In his art, he explores the possibilities of light and aesthetic qualities, where his innovative technological and digital approaches are fully integrated in the arts.
From 77 Million Paintings to 77 Million Paintings for throwing School
Brian Eno’s artwork 77 Million Paintings combines images and music an almost suggestive flow monitors. It can be described as a light color and sound landscape in flux, or a large-scale digital kaleidoscope.
Enos software makes a random selection of 500 images and combine them in different layers where each picture emerges of long and various takt.På this way the artist has transferred the control to the system where he can not predict how the finished “paintings” will look like. The purely factual result is 77 million unique digital paintings – practically an infinite artwork.
The system does not create its own artwork, but all the pictures that form the basis for 77 Million Paintings has been created beforehand by Eno, with paint, ink, photography and other methods and materials. The work unites a lot of manual artistic work with a screen-based visual expression.
In the artwork 77 Million Paintings for throwing works the same way but with a marked difference and condition – Eno invites students to interact with and expand the work through its own images.
The first “fill” the students’ photographs made in connection with the opening in February 2016, when Eno meets a group of children in a workshop. The software can then be opened again for more pictures of the school’s students.
77 Million Paintings for throwing is composed of eight flat screens that are embedded in a framework of steel mounted on a wall in the school. The piece is installed in a room with open space, social space where children can meet and socialize.
About the collaboration with Brian Eno
Art Consultant Ann Magnusson / PM Public is the person who has initiated and managed the collaboration with Brian Eno, on the basis of its mission for the purchaser Huge Fastigheter AB and the project’s working group HMWX architects and the school principal.
– In my work as an art consultant included it is to think beyond the expected to make interesting and creative connections between a place or context and the right artist.
– this project is of course one of my dream matches – a far-sighted and courageous property, a school that encourages kids to the technical and creative curiosity and development, and a fantastically interesting artist who can both encourage and inspire students in a fun way.
Ann Magnusson contacted Brian Eno, hoping to arouse his interest to cooperate on an art project in a school for children and young people. After a visit with her in Flemingsberg and throw the school – which was then only a large construction site – he accepted.
About Huge Fastigheter art ventures
After Huge Real Estate builds new is always a certain proportion of the total project cost to art. In the selection process with the art is context, architecture, expectations and visions of important points.
– We are extremely proud that the students of throwing school both to experience and to be co-creators of this unique work. Art should interact with the architecture in a place and help create a sense of belonging and identity. It may also address the deeply personal and make us reflect on ourselves and the world. Brian Eno’s work inspires us as well as property owners in our continued work with art in our developments, says Sophia Mattsson-Linnala, CEO of Huge Fastigheter AB.
* Music genre focusing on the tone and atmosphere rather than the traditional structure of melody and rhythm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_music ambient music can be partially or fully generative.
** Art partly or wholly created by means of an autonomous, “autonomy” system. Within the digital art is usually about algorithms, a set of rules, for example, how a software to act / work.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoritm
77 Million Paintings for throwing School (2016)
Dimensions: 1556mm x 1556mm x 173mm. Technology / Material Software. Eight fixed wall screens. Structure of steel. Built-in speakers. Manual to school.
Artist: Brian Eno Brian Eno
team: Dominic Norman Taylor and Nick Robertson, Lumen London
Technical Producer: Fred Duthy Husband Labrications Ltd
Client: Huge Fastigheter AB, Huddinge municipality’s property.
Art Consultant: Ann Magnusson / AM Public
Working in Sweden: Ann Magnusson, Madelene Gunnarsson / AM Public, Michael Brozen / Sara Lundberg / throwing school, Anders Melin / Huge Fastigheter AB, John Magee / HMXW architects
throw school opened in August 2015 with students from preschool age up to grade six. The preschool has 5 sections for about 100 children, F-6 school has room for about 420 students. Surface: about 8,000 sqm BTA .
Press photos: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/huge_fastigheter_ab
Presskontakt:
Cristina Gonzalez Pons, communications manager, Huge Fastigheter AB
cristina.gonzalez.pons@huge.se
08-535329 76
For questions about the art and collaboration with Brian Eno:
Ann Magnusson, art consultant, President, AM Public
ann@ampublic.se
070-424 25 22
Huge Fastigheter AB is one of Sweden’s ten largest municipal property – owner is Huddinge. With humans and the environment in focus owns, develops and manages residential and we are different types of municipal and commercial premises, ranging from schools to recreational and sports facilities and shopping centers. Huge has 270 employees and sales of approximately SEK 1.3 billion. Our vision is to create vitality in Huddinge.
Emanuel Charles Stone: why the FBI kept away from our iPhones – Göteborgs-Posten
The FBI asked a question to Apple: Can you put a program in all iPhones so that we are without a lot of encryption fuss can monitor all see everything they write, say, saving and shoot?
the question was plump and unusually bluntly. Would it come out that Apple agreed to a patently offensive matter and created an FBI-specific software, it would be difficult for Apple to explain itself. So Apple said no. And instead made a promotional deal out of it.
On Tuesday, they published a press release in which they tell about the FBI’s request, and how they will now do everything in their power to oppose the FBI. Partly because it is illegal and partly because it is unethical. But most of that Apple would otherwise have risked that their customers had left them.
The latter is important, because right now it’s what keeps our privacy liquid. We have seen it over and over in Sweden lately.
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When the FBI , Sweden’s equivalent of the FBI, called automatic access to the Swedish telephone operators meta data about customers, refused Tele2 and walked out with it publicly. When the Swedish government through an investigation was preparing a new filtering of the Internet where some sites to be banned, it was the operator Bahnhof who alerted. And when laws are trying to be enforced where ISPs will be forced to close some pages, then it Bredbandsbolaget taking brawl in court.
The companies make it so clear that it is the right thing to do, but even more to they depend on their customers’ trust.
the same should apply for the State. Full democracy based on mutual trust, citizens choosing deputies in the parliament to take the best decisions for us. But to monitor citizen is not about trust. It is to see themselves as better judgment, it is to increase its power and distance themselves from the people who gave them confidence. It is assumed that all citizens are criminals until proven otherwise and therefore should be monitored.
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the government can do so, for we who are citizens have no way to escape, choose any other state. We can not opt out of being a citizen and can not opt to be monitored.
The reason is our hope private actors goodness and ethics. And our pursuit of our consumer power.
When Edward Snowden 2013 revealed that the US monitored almost all the world’s citizens was also revealed that there was a collaboration with several of our greatest actors. Including Apple. Apple promised that it was not true and has since actively promoted and promised to protect the integrity of use.
When Apple now was asked by the FBI, they had a choice. To accept and risk of one day standing with his pants down, or to fight. Perhaps the lesson learned from Snowden. Anyone who wants to try to sneak in by spying on its customers will always be revealed. And a company that is constantly fighting for survival can not afford to lose customer trust. Therefore, they went to the counter-attack. And therefore, they are perhaps our last hope towards a total surveillance.
It is tragic. Or as Snowden summed it yesterday: The FBI has created a world in which citizens can rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
The crime trend: Growth for adblockers stopped – Today’s Media
After an explosive growth – now adblockersanvändandet leveled out. It shows figures TNS Sifo has developed exclusively for Dagens Media.
Why disappear a large part of page views when the ad exposures added together? The question stands right now employees of the Swedish media traffic departments.
One obvious answer is adblockers, software – often via the addition of users’ browsers – blocking ads on media sites. That the problem exists, and that there is a serious threat to revenues, most media companies agree. How big the problem actually is, nobody knows.
According to new horror figures from research firm Media Vision has a full 39 percent adblockers on either computer, phone or tablet. In the 15-24 age group say 65 percent that they use adblockers, according to Media Vision. Given previous measurements from anndar operators indicated Media Vision’s figures indicate that the use is increasing fast. Media Vision’s latest figures are due metodoligiska reasons not comparable to their previous mätnignar.
Today’s media can now come up with a longed-for country-pressed media house.
Recent figures by TNS Sifo on commissioned by Dagens Media has broken out of its mammoth study Orvesto consumer (2015: 3) shows that the sharp growth of adblockers is broken for the first time since the phenomenon began to be measured.
– During a year and a half we have had a pretty explosive development. But after a sharp rise, it has now stalled, says Peter Callius, head of TNS Sifo mediated nobility.
One explanation for the discrepancy between the two studies may be that MediaVision down their questions via the Web, which can result that respondents are more technically versed. TNS Sifo survey Orvesto is postal.
On several key points, however, the picture is consistent:
first Adblockers is common in computers. Smart phones and tablets are – so far – relatively protected.
2. Men use adblockers more than women.
3rd The younger the target audience, the more adblockers.
– The use of adblockers doubled for every generation, says Peter Callius.
Want to know more ? In Dagens Media’s magazine # 3 2016, you can read more about adblockers and see the exact figures on the use of different audiences. There you will also know how adblockers create “Internet Ghosts” by knocking out the media web statistics program.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
The robot is in our heart – Helsingborgs Dagblad
The company True Companion it takes literally: their sexrobot Roxxxy, which will begin shipping in 2016 and already has 4,000 pre-orders, marketed as “always on and ready to play” . True Companions demonstration videos is real weird. The developer Douglas Hines – who would have been a Simpsons cartoon of an engineer who designs sexrobotar – does his best to seem effortless when he says things like “body warm” and “anatomically consistent” while Roxxxy itself follows him with a look that is death, yet exudes a peculiar vulnerability. In between visible short demonstrations of her spastic movements. Thousands of items have already pre-ordered, and her cousin, “Rocky” is in development.
Invisible Boyfriend offers something of the opposite: a virtual boyfriend or girlfriend holding credible SMS conversations and leave voice messages without exist in the physical world. Human workers, not some groundbreaking software is secret, but the service is undeniably in time.
“Digital Assistants”, programmed to understand natural human language, many believe the industry will soon take over our communication with our computers and our surfing. Amazon’s Alexa remote controls various widgets in “smart” home, Appels Siri answers questions and Microsoft’s Cortana keeps track of your calendar, but the companies have also been careful to teach these artificial personalities charming joke. Wired magazine David Pierce notes that he “has already become attached Cortana” despite, or perhaps because of, “her” still quite limited competence. Data Giants try to come first, then they know that the once “create a relationship” with an assistant are reluctant to switch since, says Wired. But what is a “relationship” here?
The inventor Rodolpho Gelin describes BBC pursuit of a robot that can “understand your feelings and express their own”. The choice of words is revealing. No artificial intelligence today is near to understand the feelings, and definitely not express them – by definition, can only “express” something that exists. What computer programs – inadequately – is to identify typical signs of emotion and match them against their own answers from their code. Social robotics, writes anthropologist Sherry Turkle, are “things that pretend that they care about us.”
Today designing robots, with round shapes, big eyes and naive voices, using psychological findings from the toy industry. Just give the right signals, and people fooled empathy fill in the rest. Gelin cite as an example Tamagotchi, the egg-shaped electronic pets who proved that it is possible to get people to connect with a machine. The activated “our will to care.”
One irony: while it is speculated that the robot can eliminate half of all jobs in the coming decades, is the key to getting us to love a robot … to make us feel needed.
the country that embraced most robots, Japan, is also the country where loneliness is a common disease. Every fourth Japanese man is a virgin at 30. Young people who shut themselves in their rooms in front of the computer and gradually lose touch with the outside world has become so common that they got their own designation, Hikkikomori.
But also in other parts of the world, it has become a common sight with people facing each other, each of which directs its main attention towards their own phone; in its own way also a picture of isolation. Instead of facing each other directly interact we are in ever greater part of our time with electronic shadows of other people, filtered through a company’s software to stimulate us in a profitable way – as when Facebook tries to minimize the critical and negative interactions and have us send so many superficial, positive signals to each other as possible.
is not natural to take another step? The machine ignores you never judge you not, and are there just for you. You’ll never be disappointed.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Technology provides new opportunities to stop child pornography – increased … – Mynewsdesk (press release)
The company NetClean, working to stop the spread of sexual abuse material on children, has further developed its technology to work also for Mac and Linux. The development means that the technology now works for all major platforms, which is important not least for school environments where Mac is common.
– protecting Windows environments goes a long way, but it has been important for us to further develop the technology so that it works on all the major platforms. We have seen a demand among our customers who have Mac and Linux, but it is also important because this allows for example schools to increasingly secure their computers and networks, says Fredrik Frejme. Director, Head of NetClean.
The technology used by businesses and governments to protect their IT environments to be used for the dissemination of abuse materials, and to stop the sexual abuse of children. The majority of the cases of abuse material found on computers will work via USB sticks. To find material on external devices such as USB sticks, you have to have software installed on each computer, it is not enough to protect the network only.
– For actors in the public sector, this is about to take responsibility for the children that you as a society have a duty to protect. There is a strong link between watching abuse material and of committing sexual offenses against children. Therefore, if we find the people looking at abuse material, we can also save the children, says Fredrik Frejme.
Background Facts about NetClean ProActive
NetClean ProActive is software that find and track material that the police have classified as illegal abuse material on children. Based on the report of the software may be responsible within the organization provide information to the police for investigation. The images that the police classify as illegal receive a digital fingerprint, a hash sum, which enables the software to the image level, locate, track and report materials. This ensures that only abuse material traceability. Unlike Web filters, which only can block web addresses (URLs) or file name, can ProActive also find and track the content on external devices such as USB sticks.
For further information, please contact:
Anna Creutz, communications manager NetClean, 0703-08 10 77, anna.creutz@netclean.com
www.netclean.com
NetClean, headquartered in Gothenburg, is a world leader in technical solutions to stop the spread of abuse material on children (also called child pornography). Multinational companies, government agencies and Internet providers worldwide use the company’s technology. NetClean is a part of the Safer Society Group, whose goal is to develop technical solutions to create a safer and better society.
NetClean is the leading developer of technology solutions to fight child sexual abuse material. Multinational companies, government agencies and Internet service providers all over the world use NetClean’s technology. NetClean is part of the Safer Society Group, Which Develops Technology Solutions to create a safer and better society.
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