Google CEO and Obama Activist Wants Machines to Pick News
Drudge reports this morning that Google CEO Eric Schmidt wants Google’s machines to select what news you read on its website.
“News sites should use technology to predict what a user wants to read by what they have already read, Schmidt told the American Society of News Editors, where a few humans still remained in the audience,” writes Drudge.
Schmidt wants to be challenged through technology that “directs readers” to a story with an “opposing” view.
Schmidt is a staunch Obama partisan. In 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, he took the stage and said the internet gave Obama the ability to bypass traditional media and claim the Democratic nomination. “I’m doing this personally,” Schmidt said. “Google is officially neutral.”
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IBM software to help states grab back taxes
The company that made it possible for the Nazis to track Jews during the Holocaust is now metaphorically tattooing the arms of Americans so states can balance their budgets. All during an unprecedented economic downturn
States hungry to grab billions in back taxes can now call in the big guns in the form of IBM.
Big Blue announced on Monday new Tax Collections Optimizer software designed to help state governments more effectively collect money owed from deliquent taxpayers.
The software uses data analytics to determine the total amount of back taxes owed. It then compares those findings with the existing workload and available staffing at state tax agencies and recommends the best methods for collecting those taxes.
Specifically, the software analyzes certain taxpayer information, such as the total amount of money due and an individual's past tax payment history. It then determines how tax collection agents can most effectively follow up and deal with each delinquent taxpayer, given the limited time and resources of each agent, IBM said.
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