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Privacy and control of personal information

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Cameron Shelley

A number of interesting posts concerning privacy showed up today, which made good reading together. In particular, these articles concern privacy, in this case, the control that people have about data concerning themselves.

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Spreadsheetology and scientific research

Thursday, August 25, 2016 by Scott Campbell

BBC News reports that some genetic scientists have run up against a problem when using the Excel spreadsheet, which would "helpfully", automatically, and presumably without notification alter the data within a column. For example: "Gene symbols like SEPT2 (Septin 2) were found to be altered to "September 2".

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Olympics + Samsung = #Unity or #Censorship?

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 by Scott Campbell

To follow-up on some of the recent Olympics related blog posts, I'd like to direct your attention to an ad from Samsung, one of the sponsors of the 2016 Olympic. You may have seen it already, perhaps in an abbreviated, edited-for-TV version.

Known as "The Anthem", it shows people around the world singing each other's national anthems, particularly the lines that emphasize unity, humanity and progress. "One World One Anthem" it says, before wrapping up with by pointing out that Samsung is a

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Anticipating Obsolescence

Friday, July 29, 2016 by Scott Campbell

Over at the Atlantic are a few articles suggesting that future cities may no longer have street signs. As the argument goes, driverless automated cars are going to depend on high-precision maps. Such maps will be incredibly valuable to companies like Google and Apple, who may no longer be willing to give them away for free to consumers.