{"id":102,"date":"2020-01-17T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/51.75.254.207\/Club-Freelance\/?p=102"},"modified":"2022-10-10T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:32:36","slug":"weekly-news-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-uk.mindquest.io\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Weekly News Digest #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week in retrospect…<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Surprise, surprise! It has been another busy week in the world of tech. Elon Musk<\/strong>\u00a0seems to have put\u00a0his flamethrowing days<\/a>\u00a0behind and is\u00a0now set on\u00a0making his Teslas talk to nearby pedestrians<\/a>.\u00a0He didn’t go into much detail about what they’ll actually say, though he did confirm\u00a0they will be able to fart in people’s general direction<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Classic billionaire joke.<\/p>\n

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On a more serious note \u2014 and in what effectively proposes a major shift in how we approach\u00a0AI\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0U.S. researchers announced this week that they have successfully created the first biological robot<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0Xenobot<\/strong>\u00a0is made from frog stem cells and powered by evolutionary algorithms. It can also heal itself. Potential applications are certainly sci-fi worthy: micro-plastic cleaning bots, highly targeted drug delivery…<\/p>\n

However, the researchers are hoping to use these robots to understand the interaction and communication between cells. After all, the human body as a whole is one of the most developed and effective forms of collective intelligence known to us.<\/p>\n

Just imagine what could be achieved by uncovering its secrets and applying them to the advancement of robotics and AI.<\/p>\n

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RIP\u00a0Windows 7<\/strong>….<\/p>\n

Nothing new here \u2014 As of Tuesday,\u00a0Microsoft is finally discontinuing support for what some consider the company’s best OS to date.<\/a>\u00a0Beyond such considerations, the phase-out leaves a good chunk of Windows users vulnerable to security breaches and other nasty hassles. Aware that some business-critical applications only run on Windows 7,\u00a0Microsoft is offering to continue support for the old OS iteration until 2023.<\/a>\u00a0At a cost, of course.<\/p>\n

Ironically, this happened the same week we discovered that\u00a0the NSA alerted Microsoft of a security bug involving CryptoAPI that affects millions of Windows 10 computers.<\/a><\/p>\n

We’d be curious to hear what you cybersecurity experts think could be the worst potential complications following the Windows 7 service cut. What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n

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Well, guess who’s not going to be happy with\u00a0Google’s decision to end\u00a0third-party cookies<\/strong>\u00a0by 2022.<\/a>\u00a0Here’s a hint: our blue, furry friend above is not alone in this one.<\/p>\n

As Google wrestles with\u00a0Chrome\u00a0<\/strong>user demands for greater privacy, it risks compromising the advertising-based revenue model that has served as the foundation of its empire. Folks at the Internet giant are already rushing to calm down advertisers while proposing they all work together to build an alternative that meets both privacy and profitability concerns.<\/p>\n

What do you think could substitute third-party cookies and increase user privacy at the same time?<\/p>\n

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Last but not least \u2014 New developments coming straight from the front lines of\u00a0the cloud wars.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Microsoft unveiled new ad tools for retailers at New York’s NRF<\/a>, one of which Home Depot has already been using for the past year. The result of Microsoft’s acquisition last August of NY-based PromoteIQ, the new\u00a0Microsoft PromoteIQ\u00a0<\/strong>will allow retailers to promote products by combining intent-based data with audience insights.<\/p>\n

The immediate goal is clear: to help MS customers increase sales at scale. The main goal? To grab some of Amazon’s cloud market share by\u00a0pushing services to retailers who’d rather not deal with Mr. Bezos and his e-commerce monopoly.<\/a><\/p>\n

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