Sara Fisher at Axios: “Dozens of new initiatives have launched over the past few years to address fake news and the erosion of faith in the media, creating a measurement problem of its own.

Am 14. Oktober startete die Gruppe via Pisa zur italienischen Insel Elba. Bis zum 24. Oktober werden dort die Studierenden und Schüler, unterstützt von Biologen des Instituts für Molekulare Evolution der HHU, den Grad der Plastikkontamination sowohl an Land als auch im Meer untersuchen. Ihr Ausgangspunkt ist das Forschungsinstitut „Hydra“, welches ihnen Arbeitsräume, Expertise und notwendiges Equipment wie Mikroskope und Tauchgerät zur Verfügung stellt.

A conversation with Karl Sigmund at Edge: “…Now, I’m getting back to evolutionary game theory, the theory of evolution of cooperation and the social contract, and how the social contract can be subverted by corruption. That’s what interests me most currently. Of course, that is not a new story. I believe it explains a lot of what I see happening in my field and in related fields.

In this panel session from OPEN 2018 Arthur Brock, Co-founder, HOLO; Matthew Slater, Co-Founder of Community Forge and Emma McGuirk, Co-founder of Dunedin Timebank in New Zealand discuss the potential of a Co-op Coin and global mutual credit systems and consider whether any of the existing trading networks and models could be used to bring the co-operative economy to scale.
See the shared notes from this session too.

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APEC Workshop on Enhancing Regulatory Infrastructure for E-Commerce was successfully held on October 11-12 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

La Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias Geográficas (SOCHIGEO) otorgó este martes 2 de octubre esta distinción a los académicos de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) Enrique Aliste Almuna, director del Departamento de Geografía, y al profesor Belisario Andrade Johnson, quien además es egresado de nuestro plantel.

Elevar los estándares en el control de emisiones contaminantes -para cumplir al menos con el mínimo exigido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS)- y avanzar en un diseño institucional para la materialización del desarrollo sostenible en las empresas son algunas de las principales propuestas del estudio elaborado por el Observatorio de Sostenibilidad de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile.Las más de mil personas intoxicadas que a la fecha registra la crisis ambiental y sanitaria de Quintero y Puchuncaví es el último episodio

On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information about both Uber’s riders and drivers. The drivers suffered the brunt of the exposure: the release of their names and driver’s license numbers. Uber did not disclose the breach when it occurred in 2016 (in violation of California’s security breach notification law), and it became public after the company’s then new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, announced it shortly after his arrival at the company in 2017.

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Introduction to the Special Issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, Luciano Floridi and Corinne Cath: “Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates every aspect of our society, from the critical, like urban infrastructure, law enforcement, banking, healthcare and humanitarian aid, to the mundane like dating.

Joshua New at the Center for Data Innovation: “…the Trump administration announced the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade deal it intends to replace NAFTA with.

30 anos da Constituição Cidadã: Avanços e Retrocessos08h00O Evento: No marco dos 30 anos da Constituição Federal de 1988, faz-se necessário um debate sincero e aprofundado a respeito de quais avanços e retrocessos a Carta Magna proporcionou à sociedade brasileira.

I must apologize to readers of our French and Spanish versions of our website. We are currently experiencing a problem with our usage of the WordPress Multilingual (WPML) plugin that is preventing us from sending our new content out for translation.  It is proving to be quite difficult to identify and fix the issue. We are working with our development team, our hosting provider, and the WPML support team to find the solution. I hope that in the next couple of days we can solve this and return to our regular publishing in three languages.

We are pleased to announce a $2 million gift to the Wikimedia Endowment from George Soros, one of the world’s leading philanthropists.

Unter dem Titel „Schöne neue Welt – Von Superbodies und Mensch-Maschinen“ setzen sich Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften) sowie Madita Michaelis und Jan Gabler (Institut für Modernes Japan) mit folgenden Fragen auseinander: Welche Bedeutung hat körperliche Attraktivität für unsere gesellschaftliche Position? An welchen Stellen bröckelt die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Maschine? Wie beeinflussen Vorstellungen von Schönheit das Verhältnis der Geschlechter?

TL;DR: As part of reinvigorating our OpenGLAM (Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) community, we’re evaluating the OpenGLAM principles: fill out this survey and get involved.

Good-bye clickbait? Facebook has tossed out more than 800 publishers and accounts it accused of trafficking in clickbait and political spam, the Washington Post reports. Facebook also accused some of the accounts of “inauthentic behavior,” otherwise known as fake news. The bans met with some resistance, with some critics saying Facebook’s terms of service represent a moving target.