This Week on Packt Hub – 6 April 2018
Here is what you missed this week on Packt Hub - Tech news, tutorials and insights.
Tutorials
Implementing GANs, OpenCV, BFS algorithms and more tutorials for...
Australia’s ACCC publishes a preliminary report recommending Google Facebook be regulated and monitored for...
The Australian competition and consumer commission (ACCC) have today published a 378-page preliminary report to make the Australian government and the public aware of...
8 tech companies and 18 governments sign the Christchurch Call to curb online extremism;...
Yesterday, New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and French President, Emmanuel Macron brought together world governments and leaders from the tech sector to adopt...
Puppet announces the public beta of Project Nebula
Today, Puppet announced the public beta of their Project Nebula at the Puppetize PDX, a two-day event (October 9-10) featuring user-focused DevOps and infrastructure...
The White House is reportedly launching an antitrust investigation against social media companies
According to information obtained by Bloomberg, The White House is reportedly making a draft executive order against online platform bias in Social Media firms....
Deepfakes House Committee Hearing: Risks, Vulnerabilities and Recommendations
Last week, the House Intelligence Committee held a hearing to examine the public risks posed by “deepfake” videos. Deepfake is identified as a technology...
Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi 6, the start of a Generic Naming Convention for Next-Gen...
Yesterday, Wi-Fi Alliance introduced Wi-Fi 6, the designation for devices that support the next generation of WiFi based on 802.11ax standard. Wi-Fi 6 is...
FAT Conference 2018 Session 4: Fair Classification
As algorithms are increasingly used to make decisions of social consequence, the social values encoded in these decision-making procedures are the subject of increasing...
Google Cloud Next’19 day 1: open-source partnerships, hybrid-cloud platform, Cloud Run, and more
Google Cloud Next’ 19 kick started yesterday in San Francisco. On day 1 of the event, Google showcased its new tools for application developers,...
UK parliament seizes Facebook internal documents cache after Zuckerberg’s continuous refusal to answer questions
Last weekend, the UK parliament seized a cache of Facebook internal documents. The parliament exercised its legal powers after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg continuously...
Must Read in Mobile
Understanding the Foundation of Protocol-oriented Design
When Apple announced Swift 2 at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2016, they also declared that Swift was the world’s first protocol-oriented...
