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1 Software tool could help architects design efficient buildings
As each of these factors gets decided, the range of possibilities for the building get narrower and narrower — but not much more so than in any conventional design process. Typically, when architects or engineers design a new building, it’s only at the end of the process — if ever — that a lifecycle analysis of the building’s environmental impact is carried out. To evaluate the lifecycle impact of design choices requires looking at a wide range of factors. By comparing the design process with and without the use of such tools, the researchers found that the overall greenhouse gas emissions associated with a building could be reduced by 75 percent “without a reduction in the flexibility of the design process,” Ulm says. The big question was whether it would be possible to incorporate LCA evaluations into the design process without having it impose too many restrictions on the design choices, thus making it unappealing to the building designers.
2 Cy Pres Awards Are an Important Tool to Protect Privacy
As technology continues to permeate all aspects of our lives, there will be more privacy class action lawsuits in the future. The doctrine has come to be used in the distribution of class action awards where the standard method (mailing each class member an equal portion of the winnings) is infeasible. However, through cy pres awards, courts can ensure that settlement funds actually contribute to the protection and advancement of class interests. In the amicus, CDT, EFF, and NCL describe how they use cy pres awards to advance the privacy interests of class members and the general public.
(CDT)
3 AI and Customer Experience: Will the Marriage Work?
Artificial Intelligence, like other digital transformations, have been commemorated in the field of customer experience for many years. However, it’s now the rage and this technology has been touching the sky. Today, the AI technology with its potential to mimic the human interactions have been so widely embraced by both the customers and brands that there’s no denying the fact that the AI in customer experience marriage will definitely work.
4 The Digital Change Your Company Needs
We measured their progress by assessing the contribution of new business activities to overall revenues over the past three years. Notably, 64% of these 90 companies that shifted into new business activities decisively during this time achieved double-digit growth in sales. The company has deliberately taken steps to integrate its digital and store businesses so that they support each other. The bank has also created a digital institute to train staff in technologies such as data analytics and digital marketing. Rotation Masters take a different approach.
5 WeBank and DataPipeline Join OpenMessaging to Build an Open Standard for Distributed Messaging
WeBank and DataPipeline join Alibaba, Streamlio, Didi and Yahoo! in creating a vendor-neutral and open standard for distributed messaging that can be deployed in the cloud, on-premise, and with hybrid use cases. The team at DataPipeline has experience in building large scale data mobility applications based on open source MQs. The acceleration of microservice-based and cloud-based applications has put a growing focus on how data is connected to services, applications and users. This focus has led to a number of new innovations and new products that support messaging and queueing needs. It has also contributed to increased demands on messaging and queuing solutions, making performance and scalability critical to success.
6 Why we need better tracking protection
In response, some trackers have developed advanced tracking techniques that are able to identify you without the use of cookies. Mozilla has recently announced a change in our approach to protecting users against tracking. Industry opt-outs don’t always limit data collection and instead only forbid specific uses of the data; past research has shown that people don’t understand this. As such, the web lacks an incentive mechanism for companies to compete on privacy. Opt-in privacy protections have fallen short. Firefox has always offered a baseline set of protections and allowed people to opt into additional privacy features.
7 The Trusted Server: A secure computational environment for privacy compliant evaluations on plain personal data
by Nikolaus von Bomhard, Bernd Ahlborn, Catherine Mason, Ulrich Mansmann A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evaluation of personal data. Thus, secure and privacy-compliant data processing or evaluation of plain person-related data becomes possible even from multiple sources, which want their data kept mutually secret.
They produce higher implementation effort and possible data quality degradation. Distributed computing and data obfuscation technologies reduce but do not eliminate the risk of privacy leakage by administrators. This paper proposes the Trusted Server as an alternative approach that provides a sealed and inaccessible computational environment in a cryptographically strict sense.
(PLOS ONE)
8 MIT Energy Initiative study reports on the future of nuclear energy
For nuclear energy to take its place as a major low-carbon energy source, however, issues of cost and policy need to be addressed. The study concludes with an emphasis on the urgent need for both cost-cutting advancements and forward-thinking policymaking to make the future of nuclear energy a reality. The authors of a new MIT study say that unless nuclear energy is meaningfully incorporated into the global mix of low-carbon energy technologies, the challenge of climate change will be much more difficult and costly to solve. “The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World” is the eighth in the “Future of…” series of studies that are intended to serve as guides to researchers, policymakers, and industry. In “The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World,” released by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) on Sept. 3, the authors analyze the reasons for the current global stall of nuclear energy capacity — which currently accounts for only 5 percent of global primary energy production — and discuss measures that could be taken to arrest and reverse that trend.
9 Percona Becomes Bronze Sponsor of MariaDB Foundation
The MariaDB Foundation is happy to announce that Percona, one of the oldest and most well known open source database support and services companies, has joined as a sponsor of the MariaDB Foundation.
(MariaDB)
10 How many lines of Open Source code are hosted at the Eclipse Foundation?
As of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects and 1120 Git repositories, as for lines of code…
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