Interesting
Reads – 2018-09-26
Contents
Articles
- Journalism, 'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training
- 23 principles for beneficial AI: Tech leaders establish new guidelines
- Buddha in Business: Are you an enlightened entrepreneur?
- Nurturing your Network: Top Tips
- Genes, joules or gut bugs: which one is most to blame when it comes to weight gain?
- Here are the Top Online Scams You Need to Avoid Today
- Gasping for Air in India’s Industrial North
- Microrobots: Bigger than they seem
- 33 Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down
- iOS vs. Android Compare the Mobile OSes
Events /
Announcements
- KLA National Conference on Corporate and Media Librarianship – Call for Papers
- SPIN Chennai: Workshop on Statistical Methods For Process Management
- 1st Libertatem National Essay Writing Competition
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Articles
Journalism,
'Fake News' and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and
Training
This
new publication by UNESCO is a timely resource and highly topical subject for
all those who practice or teach journalism in this Digital Age. Political
parties, health professionals, business people, scientists, election monitors
and others will also find the handbook useful in navigating the information
disorder.
Written
by experts in the fight against disinformation, this handbook explores the very
nature of journalism - with modules on why trust matters; thinking critically
about how digital technology and social platforms are conduits of the
information disorder; fighting back against disinformation and misinformation
through media and information literacy; fact-checking 101; social media
verification and combatting online abuse.
23
principles for beneficial AI: Tech leaders establish new guidelines
Tesla
CEO Elon Musk, DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, and nearly 1,000 other leaders
in AI just signed guidelines for developing safe AI. Here's are the highlights,
and what it means.
Related story: Asilomar
Principles — a set of 23 points
Buddha in Business: Are you an enlightened entrepreneur?
Like most religions, Buddhism has been about good
tenets for good living. Obsessed as we are with entrepreneurship, we were
curious to explore whether a Buddhist approach would help entrepreneurs build
and implement logical, vision-aligned business models. Read the first in the twelve-part
series and start following the rest.
Nurturing your Network: Top Tips
These days we tend to consider ourselves pretty well
connected. Thanks to social media, ‘followers’, ‘friends’ and ‘connections’ are
being forged on a daily basis. Has the internet revolution made networking
easier? Do we all know one another better? Probably not.
Genes, joules or gut bugs: which one is most to blame when it comes
to weight gain?
With obesity on the rise, so too is the diet and
weight loss industry, currently valued at US$70 billion in the US alone. But
most of us are still confused about the factors that lead to weight gain. Three
commonly attributed factors are our genes, our microbiome (gut bugs) and our
energy intake (kilojoules). So let’s examine how much each of these is to
blame.
Here
are the Top Online Scams You Need to Avoid Today
We
truly want to believe that the Internet is a safe place where you can’t fall
for all types of online scams, but it’s always good reminder to do a “reality
check”. We, humans, can become an easy target for malicious actors who want to
steal our most valuable personal data.
Criminal
minds can reach these days further than before, into our private lives, our
homes and work offices. And there is little we can do about it. Attack tactics
and tools vary from traditional attack vectors, which use malicious software
and vulnerabilities present in almost all the programs and apps (even in the
popular Windows operating systems), to ingenious phishing scams deployed from
unexpected regions of the world, where justice can’t easily reach out to catch
the eventual perpetrators.
Use
the links in the post to quickly navigate the list of online scams and see the
top online scams you need to stay away from right now.
Gasping
for Air in India’s Industrial North
Air pollution kills one million Indians annually. In the northern city of Patna, the problem shaves four years, on average, off residents’ lives.
Microrobots:
Bigger than they seem
Using
insects as templates, researchers are buildings robots that are very small,
very mobile—and very useful.
33
Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down
Fast
food, real estate, military operations, even home improvement — many large
industries will have to shift their strategies in the wake of driverless cars.
It’s
all but a certainty that autonomous or driverless vehicles will be widely used
in the United States at some point over the next two decades.
Already,
over two dozen major corporates including Google, Apple, and Mercedes Benz are
hard at work building their own self-driving vehicles. Tesla’s Model S includes
an autopilot mode which gives it semi-autonomous capabilities.
Clearly,
tech and auto companies stand to gain, but many other industries could face
serious upheavals unless they are able to adapt to the many changes
self-driving cars will bring to the market.
Below,
we dive into 33 industries, from the obvious (professional driving &
trucking) to the more surprising (fitness?), that will be shaken up by the
advent of autonomous vehicles.
iOS
vs. Android Compare the Mobile OSes
Download this e-guide to compare the iOS and Android OSes and the security features of each.
Events
/ Announcements
KLA National
Conference on Corporate and Media Librarianship – Call for Papers
A
corporate library or information service is a unit within a corporate body
providing the information that the staff need to carry out the work of the
organization. Corporate bodies include business firms engaged in retail and
manufacture, law firms, consultancies, other commercial entities like banks and
insurance firms, professional trade bodies and non-governmental organizations.
Many of the media organizations such as newspapers and broadcasting can also be
brought within the purview of corporates by virtue of their nature and style of
functioning, but they are marked by a distinct identity based on their common
function. Corporate and media information services naturally reflect their
parent organizations and are therefore various and heterogeneous. Yet, across
all organizations, they face similar challenges. The primary challenge is to
prove their worth when the main function of the parent organizations is not
officially information provision or learning. The role of the information
professional in such a context is particularly challenging. There is a whole
gamut of information which can be provided by the information centres, but the
parent body may not always try to obtain them from a dedicated information
service. In a scenario where information is abundantly available to end users,
information professionals today must ask themselves what value their special
skills add to their organization. Moreover, the complexity of when, where, and
how information is accessed, has created a new set of responsibilities related
to managing internal and external information resources.
It
is in this background that Kerala Library Association (KLA) is organizing a
national conference on Corporate and Media Librarianship during 14-15 Dec. 2018
at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Last
date of receipt of the abstract: 15 October 2018
Call
for Paper at https://klaweblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/kla-national-conference-on-corporate-and-media-librarianship-23-24-nov-2018-first-announcement-call-for-papers/
Contact:
General Convener: Dr. Vijayakumar, K. P., President, Kerala Library Association
E-mail:
kpvijayakumar2@gmail.com Mobile: 9496749901
SPIN Chennai:
Workshop on Statistical Methods For Process Management
Join the Workshop on Statistical
Methods For Process Management with Sriram - Statistics Expert on 13th October
2018, Saturday at Conf. Hall, Alumni Center, College of Engineering, Anna
Univ., Chennai
Checkout more details @ http://spinchennai.org/events/event/workshop-on-statistical-methods-for-process-management/
1st Libertatem
National Essay Writing Competition
The Theme of the Essay Competition is: Is today's India Jeopardising its Constitutional Principles. The theme is also divided into 6 sub-themes which are:
- The Crisis of Seniority in the Supreme Court Elevations - The Cornerstone of Legislature and Judicial Relationship
- The Debate around Article 35A of the Indian Constitution - Will it erode the Autonomy of Jammu & Kashmir?
- The Nightmare of Assamese People - The NRC and the Proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill
- The Arrests of Activists - Is it an attack on Freedom of Speech or is justified in the name of National Security?
- The Issue of 'Office of Profit’ in the light of disqualification of 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party
- “I am what I am, So take me as I am”: Section 377 Verdict and the way forward
The
Registration for the Essay Competition is open till October 10, 2018, and the
fee is Rs. 300. Prize Details are mentioned in the brochure.
For
more details, please visit: https://goo.gl/ff9Mjv
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