#Data From Alibaba E-commerce Sites Is Now Powering A Credit-Scoring Service Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial services has unveiled a new credit-scoring system that uses data from the e-commerce giant sites to gauge userscreditworthiness.
Dubbed Sesame Credit the new service is an example of how Alibaba reach in China goes far beyond online shopping.
For example credit history can be measured through a user history of credit card and utility payments through Alipay.
or vendors follow through on transactions and the quality of their interactions with other users. Ant Financial says that it will supplement data collected from Alibaba sites and Alipay with information from public agencies financial institutions and other merchants.
Sesame Credit users can check their scores which range from 350 to 950 points through Alipay Wallet a mobile wallet app
In a press statement Sesame Credit chief data scientist Yu Wujie said the service is targeted toward users who ay have obtained never bank loans
and other factors into consideration when assessing consumerscreditworthiness. esame Credit says it will protect user privacy by collecting an individual data only after they sign up for the service.
The credit-scoring system is an example of how the user data collected by Alibaba Group e-commerce business can be used to power other verticals.
While hardcore ad blocking users might complain, advertising is the necessary evil of the web.
For the toy younger users, the system offers activities like jokes and storytelling, while older kids can ask it more specific questions,
says Clinicloud cofounder Dr. Andrew Lin. e are putting these powerful tools into the hands of everyday users,
Business users don want to wait 12 months. We started seeing a rush of interest from lines of business, where the conversation changes to business value,
Apple Activation Lock requires a user to authorize a wipe or fresh install using the existing icloud credentials on record,
Apple is one of the first major manufacturers to switch to implementing the system by default, rather than through user opt-in,
whereby a user ancellingtheir hardware renders it ultimately useless. Smartphone theft is often theft of opportunity
Apple seems committed to coming up with new ways to protect user devices and data when it comes to theft,
whereby the phone requires positive ID of the user to even display an unlock prompt,
and report on unidentified users in the background
#Bittorrent Teams Up With Rapid Eye Studios To Make Young Adult Original Content Last November,
which has 170 million active users, is kicking that strategy up another notch: it is entering a bigger partnership with Rapid Eye Studios the production house that is behind Children of the Machine to identify,
Our community has users who upload and exchange ideas on vehicle innovations. GE Appliances is building a microfactory called Firstbuild with the goal of speeding appliance innovations to market by opening up the process to the brightest minds from around the globe.
Meaningful Legal Protections Today, in the U s.,we have legal protections for user-generated content that now mean something.
GNU and other open-source licenses that grant users more free rein to modify and sometimes market software while protecting attribution and creators wishes.
But today when Facebook followed Turkey legal order to block a Page that defamed the Prophet Muhammad from Turkish users,
Old well-established banks should be ashamed that they can provide the same level of user experience.
Number26 already makes money from Mastercard cut on every transaction it transparent for the user.
Autismate now has 10000 users on its classic platform as well as another 15000 on its lite version. Like Autismate Teachmate365 is focused on visual learning.
Some users may see a lite version of Malaysia Airlineswebsite as the air carrier restores access to its site.
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
The app enables users to quickly capture and share moving images (i e. IFS of ourselves and overlay them with additional text and symbols (i e. moji.
and shared amongst its users. According to founder Carlos Whitt, Camoji has mostly found a place in the hearts of teens,
Camoji has imagined new ways for its users to save and share. The app can now be used directly from the smartphone keyboard,
and users will most likely squeal with delight when they are made aware of this innovation.
Its users can also now send their GIFS directly to Reddit, which is a communication platform frequented by those in the age group that most frequently uses Camoji.
While giving users new ways to share the innovators behind Camoji have ushered also in a new way of discovering GIFS that are of most interest to those who use it.
Users now have profiles which are like portrait galleries of their moving images, and the service has curated collections of GIFS that feature common themes.
you can now have the app send recordings of notes to other Equil users in near real-time.
For now, Amazon offers its users three carbon-neutral regions: US WEST (Oregon), EU (Frankfurt) and its AWS Govcloud. mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) will bring a new source of clean energy to the electric grid where we currently operate a large number of datacenters
Affected users were shown warning messages in their email clients that weren as immediately worrisome as those web browsers display which means that some users may not have been aware that an attack was taking place.
if the user wants to continue anyway. However when Greatfire. org reproduced the same result via the Firefox web browser the message the browser offers is far more detailed saying also that the error could means hat someone is trying to impersonate the site
and you shouldn continue. uring this attack users would only see the pop-up warning when their email client tried to automatically retrieve new messages.
What happens when a Chinese user accesses Outlook in their email client: The attack comes within a month of China blocking Gmail
Users will decide how to share their data and Apple won see it. And to advance its evolution,
With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
Williams stressed the immediate benefit to users because theye learn about their health even before a researcher study concludes
If a user notices they are having trouble balancing while walking a line, they can talk to their doctor about it.
allows users to roam within a room, or potentially an entire building, while being connected u
#Xiaomi Buys 3%Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68m Xiaomi became the world third largest smartphone company based on sales last year
and streaming box Xiaomi could look to construct a network of services to further monetize its user base in the future.
Whatever device and medium is most appropriate for reaching that particular healthcare providersstaff. hese users are ones that are constantly battling fires that are happening in the hospital and taking care of patients,
The plan is to combine those two into one Android app for Signal users. Recent security breaches and other events have prompted a number of apps to emerge that promise encrypted communications between mobile phones.
or users can link these up with their other profiles to access everything in one place.
By making this free Facebook could potentially drive a lot more users to its wider network.
Users can then link their work and personal accounts together so that they are logged into both at the same time. his would work much like Groups
Zex a mobile ad platform that serves offers to users smartphone via their lock-screens Eventus for creating and analysis social events.
Uber Cargo looks like it is primarily targeting business users, but Lalamove executive Blake Larson told Techcrunch earlier this week that he believes there is also a strong market for consumers.
users can now authenticate money transfers using the Touch ID feature in later versions of the iphone (5s
At the moment Facebook transfers are limited to users within the United states, but sources inside the company have confirmed it will expand beyond U s. borders in the near future.
if Facebook will charge users a nominal fee on cross-border transfers and currency conversions,
This would allow users the ability to store money with the social network, transfer money to others,
There is no better way for Facebook to add new users in the developing world than by becoming the de facto app for how they receive their income from abroad.
By 2019, Ericsson predicts there will be 5. 9 billion smartphone users worldwide. When every family on the planet has access to a smartphone with fast Internet, the paradigm changes.
Wechat users sent over 1 billion ed envelopesfilled with e-money to other users. It easy to imagine a world where workers in developing countries are paid through Facebook via peer-to-peer payments,
For one, it puts them closer to attaining the holy grail of datahow users spend their money.
Just because a user ikesa brand, doesn mean he or she is a customer. For example, how many of Lamborghini 11 million Facebook fans could actually afford that car?
While that is certainly true for some digital services with a sloppy attitude to security (or with business models that rely on data mining their users), others,
of which will ripple out to affect both U k. web users and their online behavior, and global companies doing business in the U k. The U k. is referred often to as the most surveilled country in the world typically a reference to the pervasive use of CCTV.
where their user data is then subject to systematic mining by the state as a byproduct of citizensdigital participation,
ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
This Homekit version lets users control lights in specific areas, as well as check with Siri to see
The Insteon Hub with Homekit allows users to control the whole range of Insteon connected devices from the company
Insteon is clearly looking to be a one-stop shop for users looking to create an Apple-friendly connected home,
but if it works as effectively as the Calm mode, it should make users wired.
and the Borg-like visage of having the module strapped to one forehead might turn potential users away for now s
For consumers, the company has an app that allows users to immediately connect with emergency services no matter where they are through ne touch.
but also includes data on medical conditions that a user can pre-populate into the app.
Today, such alerts are broadcasted often without regard to a user location, which can greatly increase the risk of misunderstanding police instructions.
The consumer product is free for users, but the startup charges institutions a fee for its Geoalert product.
Instead, users simply text a special business number and all of the transactions are performed between the customer
while the user interface will still be written mostly in Javascript, for example. It not often that we see all the major browser vendors work together on a project like this,
which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o
or incentivize users to wait rather than purchase. Worst of all, these public discounts decrease the perceived worth of the products.
It will need smart ways to alert users when great items that match their taste are added.
This means end users only have to sign in one time in a supported app and then can skip logging in to Paypal the next time they check out in that same app or any other one.
By 2015##next year##at least 500 million smartphone users worldwide will be using health-related apps says Tighe who recently spoke#at MIT Technology Review s Emtech conference in Cambridge Massachusetts.
By 2017 the app market is projected to reach 26 billion users. Among its key drivers:
and allow the smartphone to act as a##dumb-user interface or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds.
You then need to map your core user requirements so that you understand what information is needed how it should be presented
Verihaler uses wireless acoustic monitoring to provide valuable feedback to users physicians or other health-care providers promoting correct inhaler use
By 2015##next year##at least 500 million smartphone users worldwide will be using health-related apps says Tighe who recently spoke#at MIT Technology Review s Emtech conference in Cambridge Massachusetts.
By 2017 the app market is projected to reach 26 billion users. Among its key drivers:
and allow the smartphone to act as a##dumb-user interface or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds.
You then need to map your core user requirements so that you understand what information is needed how it should be presented
Verihaler uses wireless acoustic monitoring to provide valuable feedback to users physicians or other health-care providers promoting correct inhaler use
As both a rock climber and a user of prostheses Herr has direct experience with frustratingly poor prosthetic designs
Building an exoskeleton that makes movement easier is challenging the device must provide a benefit to the user that exceeds the burden of wearing it.
Two of the sites appeared designed to steer users toward alternative medicine. Genetic Genie, a free service that carries ads for vitamins,
however, directed users to get an xplanationof the results by contacting chiropractors, dieticians, and mind-body healers whose telephone numbers it provided.
Users can then click to see information about individual genes that scientific research has suggested could raise,
user friendly products helped it popularize and seize commanding positions in music players and smartphones. If Apple Pay works as promised, it could do something similar for payments,
starting with its influential army of iphone users. obile payment is finally hitting that pivotal moment
Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale. The question that Salganik and Levy ask is
and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz Ello contends that on social networks like Facebook we the users are the product as our data is sold to advertisers who hope to entice us with ads in our feeds.
It doesn t sell user data to third parties either and you can decide whether or not you want to let it gather information about your own Ello activity to improve the site.
To make money it plans to take up a freemium model where it sells features to users.
your profile photo shows up within a circle and you can follow other users by dragging their circular icons into either a friends
but swelling user base Ello feels kind of like a party at a hip art gallery where the guest list is kept secret.
Ello simply states that it will soon offer special features that users can pay a small amount to get;
Budnitz says one example many users ask for is the ability to control multiple profiles with just one login for
While some features have already been built a long list of them are still to come such as the ability to block other users from seeing your profile to post music
Whether an individual user gets the full $10 a month or not depends on which streams of data he s willing to share.
but what it does gather includes where smartphone users are given at any moment, what websites they are visiting,
But as many as 20,000 PC users and 6, 000 smartphone users are given, at any time,
In a survey of 1, 100 smartphone users by Punchtab, an advertising company, in April 27 percent of respondents said they would allow themselves to be tracked by retailers on mobile devices
In 2013 China became the third biggest user of natural gas behind the United states and Russia, consuming 166 billion cubic meters (bcm).
Buru-Navi3 creates a continuous force illusion in one direction (toward or away from the user,
Traxion also generates a force illusion via an asymmetrically vibrating actuator held between the fingers. e tested many users,
Both devices create a pulling force significant enough to guide a blindfolded user along a path or around corners.
which advises users on how much insulin they should take in light of information recorded on their smartphones:
and help users avoid it. Ginger. io uses data collected (with permission) from a phone
while letting it capture big national jobs like the one in the U k. According to users of the new Illumina system,
Users who participate in transaction confirmations are rewarded with Bitcoins, a process that is called mining. As the value of a Bitcoin has increased,
and respond to a set of preprogrammed gestures that allow the user to interact with objects in a virtual three-dimensional world.
Nguyen and Banic have built also in a number of mouselike gestures that allow a user to interact with 3-D objects by selecting
#Facebook s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users With emotion-triggering effort, Facebook pushes beyond data-driven studies on voting, sharing,
but it is far from the social network first effort to control user behavior. With huge amounts of data flooding in from more than a billion users, the company has a unique position to study their every move
and to perform experiments by measuring how behavior changes under different conditions (see hat Facebook Knows.
This helps Facebook persuade users to spend more time on the site. But in the past three years it has also been probing everything from voting to the effect of encouraging people to make organ donations.
Other academics perform research on Facebook without collaborating with the companyither by simply observing users
because it had a negative effect on some users, but also because the affected users were asked not for permission to participate (agreeing to Facebook terms
and conditions was taken as consent). hat different about this study is did that participants not explicitly consent to being part of an experimental manipulation for the study,
Facebook ran an experiment on 689,003 users to see if it could manipulate their emotions by varying the selection of posts in their news feeds.
and a former fellow at the Center for Information technology Policy at Princeton university. concerned about these practicesesting and manipulating the user experience every day.
but Google users are on all different platforms and that s really important to us.
when the user of a service pays primarily for something other than the transmission of copyrighted works,
when a user accesses his or her own content. think the Supreme court did the best job they could at making this as narrow an opinion as they could,
users currently have to load a third-party app. don really know quite yet what the long-term use case is going to be here,
Google said 65 percent of the messages sent by Gmail users are encrypted when delivered, meaning the recipient provider also supports the encryption needed to establish a secure connection for transmission of the message.
But like its other infrastructure efforts the satellite plan could boost its earnings simply by bringing its services to new users.
and streams vehicle data to a smartphone app to help users track their driving, their fuel economy,
However, Kiip and other companies moving in that direction must try to find a way of offering advertisers new ways to reach people without leaving those people feeling that they no longer control their own data. he user that going to interact with your brand really needs to know what they are giving up,
If you re using Firechat its nearby chat room lets you exchange messages with other users within 100 feet without sending data via your cellular provider.
or a wireless carrier (although they are broadcast to all Firechat users nearby). That means the content of a message and metadata could not be harvested from a central communications hub by an attacker or government agency.
As users become more mindful of the security and privacy implications of technologies they rely on moving in the direction of local ad hoc networking makes a lot of sense.
or acquire personalised information without affecting the content that users are currently viewing. The system also provides far-reaching implications for new security and graphics applications.
and the content can change as users interact with the screens. At the same time, screens transmit dynamic data instantaneously to any devices equipped with cameras behind the scene, unobtrusively, in real time.
"one user asked.""How much will it take to turn my face into Jack Ma's (founder of Ali baba?(
"one user asked.""How much will it take to turn my face into Jack Ma's (founder of Ali baba?(
Users stick the device, called Thync, onto their front temple. A second connected pad goes in a spot farther back on the head,
where the user can choose the length of their session. Users can also adjust the strength of the brain-zapping.
Each programme follows a pattern of greater and lesser intensity with cycles of peaks and valleys,
but users can also manually raise or lower the overall strength,'Gizmag'reported. The minimum time needed for the calming effect is five minutes.
The product uses"low levels of pulsed electrical energy to signal specific neural pathways, allowing users to dial up or dial down their stress responses and energy levels."
which the user directed with motor neurons previously connected to the lost limb. For the artificial leg, the principle remains the same except that the process works in reverse:
which the user directed with motor neurons previously connected to the lost limb. For the artificial leg, the principle remains the same except that the process works in reverse:
A new technology that reads brainwaves to allow users to change TV channels with their mind has been developed in the UK.
working with UK-based user experience studio This Place, created a`Mind Control TV'prototype.
It allows users to open an experimental version of BBC iplayer and select a TV programme to view,
The electroencephalography (EEG) brainwave reading headset has one small sensor that rests on a user's forehead
In the case of this experimental app, a user can select either`concentration'or`meditation'as the brain control mechanism.
If the user selects`concentration, 'the headset and app monitors their level of concentration and a`volume bar'of brainwaves is displayed on the screen,
allowing users-family physicians, for example-to run the test. The research was published in the journal Angewandte Chemie h
When the glass is in contact with the users'skin, the extent of fluorescence signal varies in relation to the concentration of glucose in their blood.
When the glass is in contact with the users'skin, the extent of fluorescence signal varies in relation to the concentration of glucose in their blood.
Users will be allowed to choose screen names. However if the screen name or profile pictures includea anything#illegal
500 GB plus storage has become a bare minimum for any PC user. Many companies have started offering SSD options for the laptops.
However, even for experienced users with good equipment, it can be a challenge to accurately reproduce objects with complicated textures, occlusions and fine details.
a handheld 3d scanner designed specifically for CAD users, to create a new, high-fedelity 3d scanning technique.
According to the company, one beta user documented printing an extremely large accurate and functioning prototype with a total recorded print time of just over 200 hours.
After trialing multiple technologies, the team has decided to build off of Particle. io cloud-based platform that enables users of Dustin Words to be able to update the functions of the buttons using a variety of online services including IFTTT, Twilio
From user testing, to device sketching and iteration to application development everything we do will be shared on open source platforms
or a complicated user experience that could deter would-be users. With this in mind, the water soluble materials can be formulated for compatibility with many existing desktop 3d printers
but make sure it works effectively in the context of specific locations, the local healthcare system and for both novice and expert users.
The turntable is removed completely from the scanning process The patent also concerns the technology ability to distinguish between the object, the users fingers and even the objects around it.
Of course, this makes the life of the home user much easier. Scanning itself should become simpler,
enabling users to quickly scan and digitally interact with models around them. And what about mounting these scanners of Google street view cars?
not only a portfolio of optimized prosthetic designs for a wide range of users but also an optimized user experience for all stakeholders involved-including breaking down any language barriers
so that everybody has access to the network. In addition to creating a tighter distribution network, e-NABLE also wants to upgrade their Handomatic app
a mobile offering is in the works to make measuring in the field an easier and more friendly user experience.
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