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CrowdFlower raises $10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor

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artificial intelligence CrowdFlower is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series D funding.
The round was led by Microsoft, with participation from Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures. The San Francisco-based company has now raised a total of $38 million, according to CrunchBase.
CrowdFlower launched at the TechCrunch50 conference (today’s Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt) back in 2009… Read More Continue reading CrowdFlower raises $10M to combine artificial intelligence with crowdsourced labor→

Microsoft Accelerator startup DefinedCrowd connects machine learning with native speakers

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definedcrwod_hed Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More Continue reading Microsoft Accelerator startup DefinedCrowd connects machine learning with native speakers→

Identifying People from Their Metadata

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Jonathan Mayer, Patrick Mutchler, and John C. Mitchell, "Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata": Abstract: Since 2013, a stream of disclosures has prompted reconsideration of surveillance law and policy. One of the most controversial principles, both in the United States and abroad, is that communications metadata receives substantially less protection than communications content. Several nations currently collect telephone metadata… Continue reading Identifying People from Their Metadata→

How to prevent snoops from stalking you in Waze with “ghost” drivers

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A team of researchers has published a paper claiming they can track a Waze driver’s exact route using thousands of simulated “ghost” vehicles in the app. Continue reading How to prevent snoops from stalking you in Waze with “ghost” drivers→