28/06/2019

Is Facebook listening to me? Why those ads appear after you talk about things - Amazon is watching, listening and tracking you - Drag-and-drop data analytics

My editor, Michelle, was at a birthday party for her son's friend recently, when the mom mentioned a company she liked called Joymode. Minutes later, an ad for Joymode appeared on Michelle's Facebook news feed. When she told me about it, we both wondered whether the urban legend could be true. Does Facebook really listen to our conversations to serve us ads?

Read: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-facebook-ads.html

Amazon is not only watching over your shopping, TV viewing, music listening and book reading histories, it's also listening to you at home or in the car. At least that's how it is in my household, where I have two Amazon Echo speakers—one in the kitchen and another in the garage, plus a car accessory to bring the Alexa personal assistant along with me on drives. I don't have a lot of smart home devices, but if I did, Amazon would have access to my doorbell and security—who's coming and going—and more.

Read: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-amazon-tracking.html

For years, the researchers have been developing an interactive data-science system called Northstar, which runs in the cloud but has an interface that supports any touchscreen device, including smartphones and large interactive whiteboards. Users feed the system datasets, and manipulate, combine, and extract features to uncover trends and patterns. In a paper being presented at the ACM SIGMOD conference, the researchers detail a new component of Northstar, called VDS for "virtual data scientist," that instantly generates machine-learning models to run prediction tasks on their datasets.

Read: https://techxplore.com/news/2019-06-drag-and-drop-analytics.html

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