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Consumers Concerned Internet Service Providers Monitor, Share and Sell Personal Data
Internet access is now seen by many to be a human right, a necessity rather than a luxury. Our Internet Service Providers (ISP) are one of the things we love to complain about – the cost, the speed, the reliability are all things that concern us. Another concern that is becoming more widespread is privacy
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Amazon Supports Digital Literacy with Donation to Canada Learning Code
Amazon is recognising the importance of growing technological literacy in the next generation with a generous of $525,000 donation to Canada Learning Code, Canada’s leading national charity championing digital literacy education. This donation will support the development of a Canadian kindergarten-to-grade-12 computer science education framework as well as coding education programs. This includes a traveling mobile classroom
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What a New Tech Unicorn Looks Like – Freshworks Secures $100 Million Investment
Freshworks is continuing, and even accelerating, its rapid climb in the customer engagement space, and the wider IT industry with its announcement that it has secured $100 million in financing and has hired former AppDynamics Vice President of Finance & Treasury Suresh Seshadri as its chief financial officer. The latest round of funding is co-led by Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners
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Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and more on Program for EmTech MIT
Keeping up with emerging technologies becomes a challenge when there is so much happening in the world of technology today. If you want to see some of the most exciting new developments, then EmTech MIT is a very good place for you to start. Today,
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Social Media – A Double-Edged Sword for Mental Health
There have been many studies done on the potential for the increased use of social media to have a negative impact on the mental health of young people. Cyber bullying and other phenomena can have very serious impacts on our youth. But the other side of the coin is the ability for troubled young people
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Big Data is Changing the Face of Digital Marketing
The ability to harvest and analyse, with great speed, a wide range of data on customer behavior is changing the face of the marketing industry. Marketers have long relied on demographic information to identify, get to know, and predict the behavior of their customers. The rise of big data gives marketers, not only the opportunity to
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Can Blockchain Safeguard Healthcare Data? A New Pilot Tests the Theory
The security of healthcare data is a major concern for anyone involved in this industry, and for the individuals who entrust their personal data to these organizations. Is blockchain the answer to security and confidentiality concerns in the healthcare industry? Grapevine World is a decentralized ecosystem for the seamless exchange and utilization of health data
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Free Data Science in Cybersecurity Symposium from Carnegie Mellon
The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute CERT Division today announced the 2nd annual CERT Data Science in Cybersecurity Symposium, a free one-day symposium to be held in Arlington, Va., on August 29. Registration is now open. Modern computer networks generate incredible amounts of data, but making sense of this data is simultaneously a critically
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