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Fed Tech Roundup October 14

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Protecting government IT systems at the source - FCW.com. Federal jury finds Apple infringed on University of Wisconsin technology patent - Daily Journal. Federal Jury Rules Apple Infringed on University of Wisconsin Patent - Wall Street Journal. Nigerians Ask Federal Government To Deploy Technology In The Fight Against.

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Perhaps months too late, the Apple-Google Covid-19 contact tracing tool comes to America

Vox

Outside of the US, several countries have launched or are developing apps that use the Apple-Google tool, with varying degrees of success. And in the US, the effort has been further complicated by the federal government declining to create a national app and leaving the decision and execution up to states.

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Americans are one step closer to a national contact tracing app for Covid-19

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States are now able to create contact tracing apps that work with those from other states, thanks to a national server that works with the exposure notification tool developed by Apple and Google and stores information about potential exposures from all states that use it. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Top Sites Running Drupal : spf13.com

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s important here is that technology leaders are recognizing the power of Drupal and Open Source and adopting it at an amazing rate. Linux Journal. British Government. New Zealand Government. and developer ). Development. This site is drupal powered and so is the CMS portion of Portero.com.

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Why it matters that IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business

Vox

IBM is taking a stand against the development of technology that can lead to human rights abuses. However, a person familiar with the matter said that IBM will limit itself to the development of visual object detection and will no longer make APIs that could be used to power facial recognition available to outside or internal developers.

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Apple and Google look like problematic heroes in the pandemic

Vox

How will Apple and Google prevent their tool from being abused by governments with access to it? Apple and Google have said privacy and user trust was at the forefront of their collective minds when developing the tool. But many more questions remain. Will the tool be effective enough to warrant the privacy compromises it requires?

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Announcement of Crowdsourcing Week: Singapore April 2013

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Curating content spanning the areas of Science/Tech, Enterprise, Government/NGO & Citizen Journalism, Crowdfunding, Advertising, Marketing, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography, Tourism and Open Source. Crowdsourcing Week Asia will bring together the best and brightest minds from. Best Practices.

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