Lincoln Lincoln, Author at iMindsoft

Transparent algorithms: Why Google and Facebook not release their algorithms as Open Source?

August 15, 2016August 8, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

The algorithms involve us, but they do not know what they actually do. Google presents search results in a certain order and orders Facebook news and updates on our timeline according to certain criteria, but these recipes are secret and are jealously guarded by those who use them.

Should companies explain in detail what those algorithms? Some argue this option and make the analogy with the free software, a philosophy in which the code is published, shared, edited and redistributed freely. The debate on the transparency of the algorithms is more fashionable than ever.

Facebook in the spotlight

The Trending Facebook feature is a good example of such algorithms. Although it is assumed that who you really are that algorithm power users and how they use the social network, the operation of this program is totally unknown.

Facebook algorithm has a limitation: it is created, managed and fed by humans. Are we or rather Facebook- employees who decide what data is valid, what is done with them, and what response you get from them. An algorithm behaves better or worse shape is not just the fault of Facebook, but our, users, we feed this algorithm with our activity and our comments.

Considerations for IFAs When Choosing a Software System

August 5, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Deciding which software is the best for your business is not an easy task. While many back-office systems will cover most of an IFA’s requirements, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Image Credit That means if they want to fine-tune what they need for their individual businesses, IFAs are faced with the prospect of choosing more than … Read more

Technology needs more women for a new golden age

August 4, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Let’s stop preliminaries: the labor market needs more women. In the technology sector reports are bleak. Last April, in the framework of the International Day of Girls in ICT was confirmed: the technology sector employs only 18% of women. And, what it is more important, a large percentage of high school graduates opt for science and mathematics, but in college, 75% of students abandon technology careers. A screen, a barrier that comes from childhood, when it is suggested, “these are not women’s branches.”

Fortunately, things are changing. And for the good of all parity in wages, hours and jobs will save a fortune on the World Bank and accelerate global economic recovery. When we talk about creativity, lateral thinking, innovation, we must look to the work of thousands of women.

The future is built today

ASUS is one of the key companies that are struggling to incorporate women working in the technology sector. Through the platform #MakeWhatsNext are developing a space to encourage girls from primary, to approach technological and scientific studies. The goal is common: to avoid that in the future we meet many positions needed unoccupied. According to the study, by 2020 there will be 825,000 job vacancies related to information technology and telecommunications. 2 million in all fields of technology.

Are We Seeing the End of Manual Software Testing

August 3, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

With the recent advancements in software testing technology, it would be easy for firms to sit back and let technology take over – but do we put too much faith in our technological resources nowadays? Here we take a look at why human intervention is vital to maintaining the quality of a product, even in … Read more

Kodi wants you to see the movies in the lounge with Raspberry Pi and created it a perfect package

August 1, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

At this point in the film, almost everyone knows what a plate Raspberry Pi, and I suppose many will also know Kodi, cross – platform media center that led to the famous “Xbox Media Center” or XBMC. For some time together, they are making way lead, taking advantage of the characteristics and philosophy of each.

Raspberry Pi is a small, very affordable plate, capable of doing many things, so quickly was embraced by communities of students and makers. One of the most sought practical applications for this low-cost hardware is to generate content for TV. They did not take long to make Kodi get along with Raspberry.

KiloCore is the first chip with a thousand processors within Minimum consumption for the divide and conquer

July 25, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

A microchip with 1,000 independent and programmable processors – which also might call centers – has been designed and created by the University of California, in collaboration with IBM. A more focused project to be energetically very efficient at multitasking, which beat speed records.

Our protagonist is called KiloCore and implements a possibility that leaders like Intel had already put on the table. Welcome is parallel processing is the basis of mobile devices and desktop that live with us, but then to reach such a number of processing units, have to coordinate well to make the imagined performance.

Autonomy, power, style or size? LG has an X phone for every need

July 22, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Very curious the road leading LG with their phones X, a series of devices that are not intended to be the perfect solution for all rather have a demure specifications in some detail that makes them special. It may be the camera, the screen, even the battery.

The Korean company has four new members to the X family, responding to quite descriptive names of their abilities: X power, mach X, X and X max style. Some of its features overlap with high – end phones, those who belong to the families G and V.

Privacy differential: It boasts Apple, Microsoft and Google created it uses

July 20, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

These days the developer conference held Apple, and during the WWDC keynote address that 2016 was a specific reserved for an issue that Apple is particularly proud section: the protection of privacy.

Speaking of his new efforts in this area, Apple mentioned the use of a discipline that few had heard: it is the “differential privacy”, a statistical system to collect and analyze data without compromising the identity and privacy of those who provided consciously or unconsciously. Do you know who created the concept? Microsoft, among others.

Collect data without violating privacy it is (mathematically) possible

The differential privacy is indeed a unique concept, especially now that all large companies based much of its activity to study our activity. Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Amazon do not stop to collect our data and then used in artificial intelligence engines, or advertising systems, or the way we recommend products and content.

Moto Z and MotoMods, first impressions of the modular philosophy of Lenovo

July 18, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

2016 may be remembered as the year of the modular telephones , start your marketing ideas like LG with its G5, the final version of Ara, which will arrive this year to developers and in 2017 consumers, and now Lenovo Motorola is demonstrating that this is a trend that has several variants and where time define what is the most attractive and contributes more to the user.

Lenovo and Motorola presented its new family of devices Moto Z, which comes to complement the range of products positioned within the high – end not only as a new smartphone, but also as a new development platform that will expand the possibilities and open doors a new form of consumption. We had the opportunity to know and test the new Z Moto and MotoMods and then have our first impressions.

Before continuing, we must clarify that both the Moto Z as the Moto Z Force share many of the specifications, the differences are punctual and are focused on the camera in the ShatterShield technology, which makes the Force is a stronger team but basically we are faced with the same design, so we will refer to Moto Z as if it were a single computer.

Panasonic ToughPad FZ-A2: The tablet for industrial use can use up with rubber gloves

July 15, 2016 by Lincoln Lincoln

Although the tablet market is slowing down, many manufacturers launch such terminals with a race to see who is getting thinner and lighter devices .But there is one exception: the tablets intended for certain professional environments where there are more risks.

It is the land of the tablets ToughPad Panasonic, now extended family with the new FZ-A2 model. The Japanese automaker wants to control the sector of the tablets they need in factories, assembly lines, places with bad weather and any other environment where a general consumer – oriented tablet is too sensitive.