The search for your digital footprint starts with your email inbox and some machine learning GDPR defines personal data as an ‘asset’, yet despite this modern valuation, most of us have unwittingly – or unthinkingly –  given it away in exchange for online services. As such, the average digital footprint is spread far and wide. If you can remember all the companies that have bits of your digital info, you can begin approaching each one individually and demand they delete it – but you may be surprised at the quantity of organisations that really is. While the mind may immediately leap to Facebook, Google and the other tech giants, it’s also lots of obscure entities. That time you brought a hat at Disneyland, for example, the shop collected more than just a payment.  How do you start tracing companies you don’t remember engaging with? The answer is in your inbox and involves a little AI knowhow. This is the basic premise of Mine, an Israeli startup that uses machine learning to m...

The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the Devsthanam Act introduced for the management of 51 temples in the hill state, including Badrinath and Kedarnath. The division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice RC Khulbe while delivering the order maintained that Char Dham Devasthanam Management Act, 201 Swamy, in a series of tweets, suggested he will move the Supreme Court against the judgment. “I am awaiting the full judgment to be up loaded. Broadly some Sections appear to have been struck down, but the Act as such minus these Sections remains. Hence I have to approach the SC as in my earlier victories after losing in the HC e.g., Sabhanayagar Nataraj, 2G Spectrum cases (sic),” tweeted Swamy minutes after the decision came. He added, “Ultimately for our system to work there has to be faith in the system, which depends on the case arguments and the judges appreciation of the ...

Chennai: Chennai cannot afford to let its guards down now that fresh coronavirus cases have been brought under check because the curves of other metropolises that showed similar dips have started displaying an upward trend, say researchers studying mathematical models on the viral spread and administrators batting the disease on the frontline. Sitabhra Sinha, senior researcher and professor at the Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, says an example to support this word of caution is the city of Mumbai. The Maximum City had an R Value less than 1 during July1 and 8, but the metric has gone above 1 now. The R Value is the parameter determining the viral spread in a community. R refers to the effective reproduction number which changes with time as more and more of the population exits from the susceptible category as a result of infection, and subsequent recovery or death. Sinha says Kolkata, too, had an R Value less than 1 during June 19 and 29 but it has risen to 1.31, give or t...

A new survey by Cisco shows how the adoption of the cloud in the company is experiencing ever-increasing growth, but the real maturity on this side is still the prerogative of a few. It is called Cloud Going Mainstream: All Are Trying, Some Are Benefiting; Few Are Maximizing Value and is a new report from Cisco focused on the adoption of the cloud by companies. Adoption is certainly going through a period of strong growth, but despite this there are still few companies that can really take advantage of the benefits offered by a cloud infrastructure. null If 68% of the companies involved in the survey went to the cloud to increase business opportunities, with a 61% increase compared to last year’s report data, 69% do not yet have a truly robust cloud strategy matures and only 3% managed to optimize this strategy generating business results. It is also interesting to note that companies that have a mature cloud strategy find an annual benefit for each clud-based application of about 3...