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Article #132238 Arsenal: "Robot Pires", official chatbot available on Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack and Telegram Paris - Published Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 12:10 - News #132238 Arsenal FC  ( Premier League ) have launched an official chatbot on the  Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack and Telegram messaging platforms, according to the London (ENG) club on 24/10/2018. The club's chatbot has been named "Robot Pires", in reference to Robert Pirès, the former French international and Arsenal FC striker. The chatbot was developed by the American artificial intelligence platform GameOn. "Fans can personalise their experience by following their favourite topics and players, customising their match alerts, getting targeted news and updates, and allowing for real-time reactions and engagement, direct from the club," said Arsenal FC. "As the way fans engage with teams evolves, there are more exciting and dynamic ways we can craft chatbots. Chatbots are...
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Thirteen Good Reasons To Switch Off Your Cell Phone | ElectricSense

Thirteen Good Reasons To Switch Off Your Cell Phone | ElectricSense : While many eye problems can come about from daily work, any that manifest themselves in a short period of time, when you had no difficulties before, might be traced to your cell phone.� Gritty and smarting eyes, changed vision, and the development of ‘tics’ in the eyelid could will be the result of electromagnetic exposure.
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"The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation" -- Dr Devra Davis - YouTube

"The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation" -- Dr Devra Davis - YouTube : "The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation" -- Dr Devra Davis 385,329 views 5.4K 269 SHARE SAVE The University of Melbourne Published on Dec 2, 2015 SUBSCRIBE 25K "The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation: what we know, what we need to find out, and what you can do now" Presented by Dr Devra Davis, Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Medicine at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey.
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1.4 billion stolen credentials uncovered by University of Richmond | WTVR.com

1.4 billion stolen credentials uncovered by University of Richmond | WTVR.com : During a security sweep, the University of Richmond’s�information security staff discovered a website containing a list of stolen account credentials – a list with approximately 1.4 billion pieces of private account information such as email addresses and passwords. “From what we’re able to tell, it’s very, very deep within the web,” Cynthia Price, the university’s director of media and public relations, said of the recent discovery. “It’s a concealed website.” To put the list’s enormity into perspective, the largest internet-era data breach occurred in 2013 when 3 billion Yahoo users were affected by a hack,�according to CSO Online, a technology news website. The next biggest was in 2014 when eBay asked 145 million users to reset their passwords after hackers accessed accounts through stolen information. According to the�Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, a breach is defined as the “unauthorized...
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Just about everything you’ve read on the Warren DNA test is wrong - The Washington Post

Just about everything you’ve read on the Warren DNA test is wrong - The Washington Post : “While the vast majority of the individual’s ancestry is European, the results strongly support the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor in the individual’s pedigree, likely in the range of 6-10 generations ago,” the report said. Here’s where the reporting went off course. The report said that Warren had 10 times more Native American ancestry than the reference set from Utah, and 12 times more than the set from Britain. The report also said that the long segment on Chromosome 10 indicated that the DNA came from a relatively recent ancestor.
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Marc Benioff voiced concerns on a San Francisco homelessness measure months before becoming its most prominent booster - Recode

Marc Benioff voiced concerns on a San Francisco homelessness measure months before becoming its most prominent booster - Recode : Over the last few weeks, Salesforce co-CEO and chairman Marc Benioff has cast himself as the champion of a homelessness measure that would raise taxes on San Francisco tech giants, including his own company. It’s an appealing message of selflessness — the high-profile tech executive willing to forfeit some money in order to help raise $300 million to protect the city’s most vulnerable people. Salesforce is the city’s largest employer and Benioff has been one of the city’s most generous and prolific philanthropists. But privately, Benioff has at least at one point been more critical of the initiative, according to late July emails sent by him and seen by Recode. In the emails, he voiced concerns about the tax increase assessed on corporations and the $300 million that San Francisco says it already spends to combat homelessness.
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The transformation of the Super Bowl ad experience

The transformation of the Super Bowl ad experience : As I discuss in my new book, advertisers are leveraging new technologies to track our personal habits and target us with individualized advertising. In other words, they want to make sure the ads we see are aligned with our existing tastes and preferences. It’s based on research showing that a “personalized” ad is more likely to stick in our heads and trigger a sale. This sort of thing happens when we receive direct mail based on the type of car we own. It happens in the supermarket checkout lane when our shopper’s loyalty card tells advertisers our purchase histories. It’s happening during the Super Bowl, too. And it may even change the way we see Super Bowl ads in the future.
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Rich Chinese: Much ado about Europe | Juwai.com

Rich Chinese: Much ado about Europe | Juwai.com : The Euro’s decline against the RMB. The RMB has appreciated against the Euro as much as 20% since July 2014, so Chinese investors’ purchasing power has grown. Put simply, that’s a 20% discount on a property’s sale price compared with last year.
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Help WIRED Track How Political Ads Target You on Facebook | WIRED

Help WIRED Track How Political Ads Target You on Facebook | WIRED : Crucially, the tool won’t collect your personal information—not your Facebook ID or identifiers, not your profile information or contacts, not what you do on the platform. It just copies the ad, the targeting information Facebook provides with it (which you can also view by clicking the top right corner of a sponsored post and selecting "Why am I seeing this?"), and some other metadata like the time and date the ad was seen. It won’t identify which individual users see a particular ad, either. You can read more about how the extension works here, and ProPublica has also put the source code up on GitHub for anyone who wants to check it out. Since last year, Facebook launched its own political ad archive, but it currently doesn't include the more detailed targeting information. Reporters are also finding clearly political ads that Facebook’s algorithms don’t catch. ProPublica’s tool is still a valuable, i...
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The Zuma satellite appears lost—here’s what we know so far | Ars Technica

The Zuma satellite appears lost—here’s what we know so far | Ars Technica : Meanwhile, the government will investigate the cause of the accident. It will likely report those findings during classified meetings of congressional committees and to the White House. At that point the results of the investigation should leak out to the media, with a redacted report potentially released to the public at a later date.
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Child marriage in the U.S. is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder. - The Washington Post

Child marriage in the U.S. is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder. - The Washington Post : Phil wipes tears from Douglas’s eye after he ran into a door. Phil says that he really loves Douglas, whom Maria had during a previous relationship, and wants to raise him as his own
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International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock - Open Source Insider

International Space Station adopts Debian Linux, drops Windows & Red Hat into airlock - Open Source Insider : We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable — one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust, or adapt, we could.
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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo : Both design thinking and the rational-experimental approach implicitly establish problem solving as the remit of the powerful, especially when it comes design for social ends. �They turn the everyday ability to solve a problem into a rarified practice, limited only to those who self-consciously follow a specialized methodology.� In fact, problem-solving is always messy and most solutions are shaped by political agendas and resource constraints. The solutions that win out are not necessarily the best�— they are generally those that are favored by the powerful or at least by the majority. Both rational experimentation and design thinking provide cover for this political calculus. They make a process that is deeply informed by social and economic structures seem merely technical or aesthetic.
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The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens | TechCrunch

The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens | TechCrunch : Investors are pouring millions into the creation of a network of shared kitchens, storage facilities, and pickup counters that established chains and new food entrepreneurs can access to cut down on overhead and quickly spin up new concepts in fast food and casual dining.
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Specialized Men's Turbo Levo Comp Review: A Pedal-Assist Mountain Bike That Dominates the Trails | WIRED

Specialized Men's Turbo Levo Comp Review: A Pedal-Assist Mountain Bike That Dominates the Trails | WIRED : SIGNING ON TO test the new Specialized Turbo Levo mountain bike is a little like making a deal with the devil—especially if you live in a town, like I do (Duluth, Minnesota), where e-bikes aren't allowed on the 93 miles of IMBA gold-medal-level, purpose-built singletrack. There are many purists out there who firmly believe that only those who can ride trails under their own power should have access to them. My sensibilities fall in that camp, but in the name of open-minded evolution and a hardwired quest for fun, I felt obliged to test the new bike anyway.
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mmm 'Last chance': German publishers unite on unified log-in to combat the duopoly - Digiday

'Last chance': German publishers unite on unified log-in to combat the duopoly - Digiday : In two weeks, an alliance of 20 media, e-commerce, agency ISP businesses in Germany will officially launch a unified consumer login product, created to give consumers total control of their data privacy and consent settings, which are now stricter under the General Data Protection Regulation. The concept is that any user that creates a login will be assigned a centralized privacy-settings center that they can manage, and that will work across all the sites and digital properties of the partners. “This is the European market’s last chance to change this [imbalance],” said Sven Bornemann, former board member of Germany’s online marketers association AGOF, who has been appointed CEO. “With the dominance of Google and Facebook, user data is drifting away to the walled gardens and leaving the German market, meaning publishers and agencies are’t able to use that data anymore.”
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Double Trouble! – The Stunt Doubles Behind our Favorite Action Stars - TettyBetty

Double Trouble! – The Stunt Doubles Behind our Favorite Action Stars - TettyBetty : It’s difficult to pick the most epic actor-stuntman duo of all time, but our vote goes to these two. Chad Stahelski’s boss noticed he looks like an exact replica of Keanu and made him audition for The Matrix. He walked in thinking there’s no way he’s getting the part, and walked out proving to everyone that he was wrong. That audition marked the beginning of the most meaningful artistic collaboration of his life. Stahelski didn’t only became Keanu’s regular stunt double – he was also responsible for reviving this actor’s career with his directorial debut John Wick.
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Double Trouble! – The Stunt Doubles Behind our Favorite Action Stars - TettyBetty

Double Trouble! – The Stunt Doubles Behind our Favorite Action Stars - TettyBetty : Princess Leia’s golden bikini from Return of the Jedi is one of the most memorable costumes in cinematic history, but Carrie Fisher hated it from the bottom of her heart. Her stunt double Tracey Eddon probably felt the same way, but her replica was at least a little bit more comfortable because it was made of rubber. Their frustration doesn’t shine through in one of the most iconic behind the scene shots from the Star Wars set. Fisher and Eddon can be seen sunbathing in their matching bikinis – after all, they were filming in the middle of the desert and had nothing else to do in between takes.
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'It gets the brand to a wider audience': Rough Trade set for Q4 and global expansion | Brands | Music Week

'It gets the brand to a wider audience': Rough Trade set for Q4 and global expansion | Brands | Music Week : Key titles for indie retailers for Q4 include new albums from Cat Power, Kurt Vile and John Grant, as well as the current Top 5 album from Suede and forthcoming records from Muse, Mumford & Sons and The 1975.
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'She is an artist who has an important voice': Lily Allen's memoir is a bestseller | Talent | Music Week

'She is an artist who has an important voice': Lily Allen's memoir is a bestseller | Talent | Music Week : It’s been a busy few weeks for Lily Allen, with both a Mercury Prize show performance and a highly-publicised new memoir. My Thoughts Exactly, which details allegations of abuse within the music industry, debuted at No.6 on the Sunday Times Bestsellers on sales of 4,520. No Shame peaked at No.8 on the albums chart in June but has not seen a significant sales boost from the Mercury nomination. Sales to date are 19,306, according to the Official Charts Company. But the success of the book and its attendant publicity could help revive the well-received record. “As Lily always does, through selective press interviews, she is showing that she’s an artist who has an important voice and a voice that won’t be silenced,” said Parlophone director of marketing, strategy & partnerships, Jack Melhuish. “She is an important commentator and that is amplified by the conversa...
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Scientists determine four personality types based on new data: Comprehensive data analysis dispels established paradigms in psychology -- ScienceDaily

Scientists determine four personality types based on new data: Comprehensive data analysis dispels established paradigms in psychology -- ScienceDaily : Researchers have sifted through data from more than 1.5 million questionnaire respondents and found at least four distinct clusters of personality types exist: average, reserved, self-centered and role model. They are based on the five widely accepted basic personality traits: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The findings challenge existing paradigms in psychology and potentially could be of interest to hiring managers and mental health care providers.
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