Welcome to our weekly selection of digital innovation news. Based on our opinionated always changing automated token based selection algorithm we present some top innovation news to get you thinking, debating and collaboration on making our world better.
1 One Small Step for the Web…
I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That’s why I and others fight fiercely to protect it. The changes we’ve managed to bring have created a better and more connected world. But for all the good we’ve achieved, the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas.
Today, I believe we’ve reached a critical tipping point, and that powerful change for the better is possible – and necessary.
This is why I have, over recent years, been working with a few people at MIT and elsewhere to develop Solid, an open-source project to restore the power and agency of individuals on the web.
Solid changes the current model where users have to hand over personal data to digital giants in exchange for perceived value. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Besides the OSS repro there is an active community.
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2 Bad mosquitoes spread disease. Good mosquitoes can stop them.
The developers of machine learning, AI algorithms probably never envisioned the process being used in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases. Could other kinds of hardware and software be used to aid scientific or medical projects? Mosquitoes kill more people than every other animal combined. One species, Aedes aegypti, carries diseases such as dengue, Zika, yellow fever, and chikungunya which make hundreds of millions of people sick every year. And these diseases are spreading faster than ever.
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3 Detecting fake news at its source
For example, fake- news outlets were found to be more likely to use language that is hyperbolic, subjective, and emotional. Baly and Nakov co-wrote the new paper with MIT Senior Research Scientist James Glass alongside graduate students Dimitar Alexandrov and Georgi Karadzhov of Sofia University. Facebook plans to have 20,000 human moderators by the end of the year, and is putting significant resources into developing its own fake-news-detecting algorithms. The team determined that the most reliable ways to detect both fake news and biased reporting were to look at the common linguistic features across the source’s stories, including sentiment, complexity, and structure. The team will present the work later this month at the 2018 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) conference in Brussels, Belgium.
4 Startup uses 3-D printing to reinvent the production of metal parts
It’s not hard to understand why some of the world’s largest corporations have made huge investments in metal 3-D printing recently. However, the cost, complexity, and time associated with metal 3-D printing has ensured the technology’s mark on the multi-trillion-dollar manufacturing industry remains minimal. Thinking only about the cost of 3-D printing ignores the incredible value unlocked by new designs, and by speed and flexibility on operations. But in order for Desktop Metal to contend with the global manufacturing market, the company needed to further reinvent the printing process. Still, it remains unclear how much 3-D printing will be disrupting mainstream metal processing in the near future.
5 Consider Culture When Implementing Agile Practices
When agile practices clash with local culture, it’s important for organizations to recognize the conflict and develop solutions sensitive to the societal norms without impeding agile practices. Hybrid solutions like that can help a team shift the baseline for agility so expectations are realistic. Building an Effective Agile Team Agile practices are people-oriented, and agile teams are self-organizing and cross-functional. Successful agile companies adapt their practices to suit project and organizational characteristics.2 Adapting your agile practices to be considerate of cultural scripts will demonstrate to global teams that agile methods are not a one-size-fits-all approach and that localized nuances do matter. One challenge to implementing agile practices globally is accommodating cultural differences. At some of those off-site meetings, project members informally briefed their managers and customers about the difficulties of adopting certain agile practices.
6 Case Study: How Bosch Is Succeeding with Open Source at Eclipse IoT
How is it that a 150-year-old, 400,000 employee industrial conglomerate is competing and winning in the rapidly involving IoT software industry?
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