Yet despite the growing popularity of crowdsourcing for ideation, research, analysis, and prediction, the Silicon Valley crowdsourcing scene seems to be losing the hype it once enjoyed.
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Screenshot of Catalan live map for crowdsourcing street intel Screenshot of Catalan live map for crowdsourcing street intel Our source suggested police presence on the map might be depicted by chick emojis.
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Chris Rasmussen is an evangelist, and his message is crowdsourcing.
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Unsurprisingly given Wikipedia's success, he sees crowdsourcing as the remedy.
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Dorsal is the crowdsourcing part of their mobile app ecosystem.
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"We're crowdsourcing the piece," Larsen said, "in an ironic turn."
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But legal barriers have long hampered such attempts at crowdsourcing.
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The crowdsourcing of Wikipedia has sometimes inspired concerns about accuracy.
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"We're crowdsourcing intelligence about how a person texts," says Lee.
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But the company is not just relying on crowdsourcing efforts.
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It essentially amounts to crowdsourcing dog genetic research, Caplan says.
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Take Project CSX, the company's attempt and crowdsourcing a phone.
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Other beauty brands, like Julep, have been crowdsourcing for years.
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Individual crowdsourcing campaigns are being launched to help volcano victims.
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This time she has crowdsourcing and teamwork on her mind.
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Several crowdsourcing sites are raising money to help those affected.
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Magnus's database contains about 10 million prices, compiled through crowdsourcing.
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An alternative is to look at crowdsourcing websites such as Estimize.
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Crowdsourcing tips can lead to everything from factual inaccuracies to trolls.
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This is where a crowdsourcing aspect of the app comes in.
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StatCan's crowdsourcing app will supplement rather than replace the priceofweed information.
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The crowdsourcing platform had half a million registered workers in 2015.
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Crowdsourcing is a next-generation tool that needs to be refined.
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Some artists and curators raise money through crowdsourcing sites like GoFundMe.
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It's now the first multi-planet system discovered entirely through crowdsourcing.
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It's basically crowdsourcing a meal to share with all your friends.
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Life, Schenee Murry is crowdsourcing funding for her weight loss surgery.
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In calmer waters, this crowdsourcing dynamic can be a pleasant one.
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Today, Taiwan is crowdsourcing democracy to create a more responsive government.
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"So while crowdsourcing is not new, this is surprising," he said.
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It also allows users to find cell signal via crowdsourcing technology.
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"Using crowdsourcing doesn't stop you from breaking the law," he said.
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That's the premise behind Roadie, a new app that's crowdsourcing package delivery.
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It uses crowdsourcing to alert protesters to the location of law enforcement.
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You don't need a complicated crowdsourcing algorithm to have predicted this one.
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Kenyan born tech company Ushahidi launched a redesign of it crowdsourcing product.
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Ating began crowdsourcing money for survivors of Boko Haram on social media.
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Now, the federal government is adding another layer to its response: crowdsourcing.
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Headquartered in Seoul, Flitto launched in 2012 as a translation crowdsourcing platform.
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Crowdsourcing is a commonly used method to obtain or process such cases.
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Yet in a weaponized information environment, crowdsourcing appears unproductive and even ominous.
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Musk's faith in the power of crowdsourcing is common in Silicon Valley.
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It's crowdsourcing at its finest, which sometimes means humanity at its worst.
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I used to think that crowdsourcing of trustworthiness could be a thing.
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For a full gallery of the items HGTV is crowdsourcing, visit HGTV.com/Brady.
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When we were all just sort of learning, you know, crowdsourcing each other.
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Crowdfunding platforms can be a powerful tool, even stronger in combination with crowdsourcing.
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Google, of course, has relied on crowdsourcing for a number of its products.
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But like political betting markets, such donation trends have the advantage of crowdsourcing.
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I don't love crowdsourcing, it's not asking what they want and making it.
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Many newsrooms already utilize crowdsourcing tools and social networks to monitor news trends.
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This Sunday, Doritos will continue its tradition of crowdsourcing its Super Bowl commercials.
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My colleague Nate Wong is familiar with crowdsourcing from his years of consulting.
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It is not to say that crowdsourcing is unimportant for our governing system.
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Smart crowdsourcing platform allowing companies to find and engage instantly with diverse talent.
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But besides a crowdsourcing name competition and a few teasers, details were scant.
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This, however, is one of the dangers of using crowdsourcing tactics during manhunts.
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It's a form of crowdsourcing that comes with remaining a relatively small team.
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The women's team relies on outside organizations and crowdsourcing for equipment and funding.
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We soon will launch a crowdsourcing campaign to help alleviate other related costs.
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The debate is crowdsourcing questions from members of the public until Monday afternoon.
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"There's a benefit to crowdsourcing to people who know you best," she said.
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We also challenge our team to find new solutions through hackathons and crowdsourcing.
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Shankar's contest is crowdsourcing short scripts for Apu that do NOT involve Indian stereotypes.
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Along the way, we shared hundreds of other explosive ideas: The long tail. Crowdsourcing.
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Extreme crowdsourcing is perhaps one of the greatest gifts the internet has given us.
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Before you fork over 40 bucks, try crowdsourcing your funniest friends and family members.
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Other programmers working on open source projects earn much more modest sums through crowdsourcing.
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The Beyond Good and Evil 2 crowdsourcing project is similar to other HitRecord projects.
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Later, Greenwalt also went on to found CrowdMed, a site dedicated to medical crowdsourcing.
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If I wasn't such a believer in crowdsourcing, I'd choose Google Maps over Waze.
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So, we wouldn't have any of this enlightening information without the glory of crowdsourcing.
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Others post lines from the film, crowdsourcing Thanos' speeches one line at a time.
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Since its founding in 2010, GoFundMe has become a popular crowdsourcing tool for fundraising.
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For business wiling to look beyond traditional sources, crowdsourcing offers another potential capital source.
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But crowdsourcing, and the premise of putting out into the ether an artistic choice?
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He started a crowdsourcing fund on GoFundMe with the original goal of raising $15,85033.
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To achieve this, Nodle is betting on a combination of crowdsourcing bandwidth and partnerships.
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Last year, Mozilla launched Common Voice, project for crowdsourcing audio recordings from the public.
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Turning to GoFundMe and other crowdsourcing websites has become the norm in medical crises.
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Big knowledge has the potential to rekindle the hype, and the hope, of crowdsourcing.
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So it's crowdsourcing — you're getting people to do the work for you for free.
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The sisters also crowdsourcing funds for their independent business, which they hope to expand.
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Crowdsourcing that process, she hopes, will allow professional archaeologists to speed up the discovery process.
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It is crowdsourcing the last-mile delivery of orders through a service called Spark Delivery.
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After all, crowdsourcing can sometimes be dominated by individuals who have an axe to grind.
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Users are also crowdsourcing offers and requests for help that include clothes, shelter, and transportation.
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Services like Yelp and the like have found more efficient methods for crowdsourcing customer opinions.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the pitfalls of crowdsourcing knowledge in an era of disinformation.
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The thought of crowdsourcing funds to pay vet bills through GoFundMe makes my skin crawl.
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Beneath the gripping plot lies an inquiry into the power of social media and crowdsourcing.
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Everybody with an internet connection knows that crowdsourcing names for things can be a disaster.
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It's common for Google to lean on crowdsourcing in an effort to better its products.
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The crowdsourcing initiative asks users to fold proteins into new and optimal three-dimensional configurations.
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HTT is unique among them in that it's crowdsourcing all of its labor and materials.
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Like many modern digital innovations, "crowdsourcing" is a concept borrowed from the commercial tech industry.
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We've supported crowdsourcing for our Kickstarters, our American Idols, and our Wikipedia-based knowledge set.
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Appolition and others are trying to blend technology and crowdsourcing to help address the issue.
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Flixed's survey was conducted, via Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, from August 23 to 26.
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As of Tuesday night, nearly $100,000 had been raised for him via a crowdsourcing website.
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The "ARĪV" name was developed after GM started a crowdsourcing campaign to name the bike.
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In Australia, Village Roadshow has turned to crowdsourcing with its #edgy Unscene Short Film Competition.
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An online forum for crowdsourcing DIY projects, called Hometalk, also received an investment from Neumann.
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Though 3D printing was the end goal of their presentation, crowdsourcing was the attempted means.
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But she was excited by the many strong leads the crowdsourcing process brought to her.
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Crowdsourcing might well have the additional benefit of involving more young people in American politics.
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Earlier this year, Google presented a paper at the Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing.
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" Weeks later, Shankar announced his contest, "Apu Screenwriting Contest: Crowdsourcing the Cure for The Simpsons.
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But then she was directed to a website that uses crowdsourcing to locate old graves.
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The crowdsourcing campaign for the Zero failed, never having reached even half of its $100,000 goal.
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There is now even a smartphone app for the project, that makes crowdsourcing images much easier.
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As for the crowdsourcing campaign, GM won't reveal the people or persons behind the winning name.
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His solution, too — the sort of crowdsourcing that was hot 15 years ago — is plainly naive.
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"Part of the product design is the community's crowdsourcing good content in real time," Sideman says.
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This week, Google's looking to speed up the process a bit by crowdsourcing the data set.
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This time the retail execution monitoring service is purchasing Russian crowdsourcing and image recognition provider Streetbee.
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This is not the first time humanitarian organisations have turned to crowdsourcing to help gather data.
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The company has classified over 10 billion URLs, some of them gathered from users via crowdsourcing.
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In 2014, someone pretended to be DeLillo on Facebook and said they were crowdsourcing a story.
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Our participants came from Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform used by many academics for research studies.
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Interestingly, eeGeo not the only one that is following the crowdsourcing model to improve indoor mapping.
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He told Vox that ongoing feedback is crucial to the art of hosting a crowdsourcing campaign.
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It was the largest amount raised in crowdsourcing for a project in Saskatchewan, Grayston's home province.
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It also aimed to teach AI about life by crowdsourcing data from thousands of video games.
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They are hoping to launch by January 2017 and have been crowdsourcing to finance their idea.
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"Modules from crowdsourcing hackers have now generated 110,000 plus vulnerabilities in our customer base," he says.
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Harvard and MIT alumni are crowdsourcing to help house low-income students or store their belongings.
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His cause: using crowdsourcing to get the online hive mind cracking cases (starting with his daughter's).
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Crowdsourcing. Followers on social media first voted on their favorite color from a choice of six.
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For one, artistic gravity is shifting from creation to reception and from sole authorship to crowdsourcing.
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They started building it during an initial crowdsourcing campaign that asked people to donate their voices.
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Mude is trying to solve that problem by crowdsourcing — asking herders to send photos of vegetation.
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New Delhi (CNN Business)WhatsApp has a new strategy for tackling misinformation during India's election: crowdsourcing.
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That future is already here: These and many other examples depict a bright future for crowdsourcing.
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He focuses on crowdsourcing information on departures of Tesla executives and litigation relating to the company.
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Now, an app-based project aims to snuff out those scents using the collective power of crowdsourcing.
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Instagram, for many, is a crowdsourcing tool that helps one find suggestions of cool places to discover.
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So in the face of this dilemma, ZTE is — you guessed it — crowdsourcing solutions from its users.
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The team has been working on the concept since April 2015, initially starting out crowdsourcing question content.
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Popular crowdsourcing platforms like Mechanical Turk suffer from accuracy problems, not to mention very difficult working conditions.
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"In terms of local tools, we have over 500 people crowdsourcing political ads with Vaalivahti," he said.
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The startup manually checks your request then posts it on Amazon Mechanical Turk and other crowdsourcing marketplaces.
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Amidst the wacky advice, there are also Redditers crowdsourcing some legitimate questions about their health and fitness.
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Grosser thinks we should be harnessing electronic health records and crowdsourcing tools to better understand this diversity.
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HTT is built on a crowdsourcing and volunteer platform, and isn't a traditionally structured startup like HTI.
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Gershad helps Iranian women avoid police checkpoints by crowdsourcing their locations and displaying them on a map.
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Crowdsourcing platforms allow businesses to solicit contributions from online communities, providing independence that bank loans do not.
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He notes that before throwing our hands up, there are some key elements of crowdsourcing to unpack.
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So will Monzo and its crowdsourcing superfans get rich off the incoming treasure trove of personal data?
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Ms. Mayer, a self-proclaimed data geek, has turned to crowdsourcing repeatedly over the last two years.
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"If you put it out in public, it's almost like you're crowdsourcing the audit," Mr. Kovacev said.
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In some cases, teachers have even turned to crowdsourcing services like GoFundMe to make up the difference.
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The site started by crowdsourcing memes from 4chan, then Reddit and later expanded to include original designs.
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In addition to technology's ubiquity, crowdsourcing enables an ability to scale previously missing in the nonprofit sector.
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Nonprofit organizations and crowdsourcing campaigns are helping those affected, and can be supported through the links below.
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There will be no crowdsourcing from people who have not actually had careers, no offense to Reddit.
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Similar to Wikipedia and Genius, Urban Dictionary inverted that approach through crowdsourcing: the people came to it.
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And some popped in from another widely popular crowdsourcing Facebook group, called Open Source COVID213 Medical Supplies.
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I also use the Citizen app, which is essentially a crowdsourcing tool for crime and emergency incidents.
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We're crowdsourcing the experiences of patients and families, with an emphasis on cost and quality of care.
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With the rising cost of an education, more parents are crowdsourcing to fund their 529 college savings plans.
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So, the AG's office has built a tool to help gather that info through good old-fashioned crowdsourcing.
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This isn't the first time Google has leveraged crowdsourcing to improve and expand its collection of business data.
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During a rash of wildfires in 22018, thousands of volunteers used crowdsourcing sites to respond to the crisis.
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The greatest crowdsourcing opportunities arise when you couldn't get the same results at any price without a crowd.
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The easiest way to explain what Quantiacs does is to think of it as crowdsourcing for trading algorithms.
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It seems all but inevitable that a crowdsourcing model will be implemented eventually to flesh this tool out.
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Given its reliance on crowdsourcing, the app's success depends on whether Australians are interested enough to report prices.
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The company plans another crowdsourcing campaign this year, on Indiegogo, with a wider launch being some time away.
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The name was selected after an international crowdsourcing campaign which invited people to send names for the car.
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However, Goshen is quick to point out that Labs shouldn't be regarded as a crowdsourcing opportunity for MakerBot.
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UNU employs crowd wisdom to deliver its forecasts, but it differs from familiar crowdsourcing technology, surveys and polls.
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But there is one way the data can be put to use outside of individual enthusiasts' computers: crowdsourcing.
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"Crowdsourcing has replaced focus groups," said Chris Hicken, president of UserTesting, a company based in Mountain View, Calif.
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Crowdsourcing, peer-to-peer rentals like Airbnb: An interest, exemplified by millennials, in a temporary ownership of goods.
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" According to the site promoting the contest, "The Simpsons is sick and this contest is crowdsourcing the cure.
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This week: crowdsourcing in space, vision on a chip, robots underground and under the skin and other developments.
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As the storm progressed, mounting power and cell tower failures posed another challenge to the accuracy of crowdsourcing.
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The crowdsourcing contest is similar to one last year by copper miner Oz Minerals, also in South Australia.
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There isn't a flicker of musical edge on this album, only a belief in the crowdsourcing of ideas.
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While half of the waitstaff dotes on you, the other half might be crowdsourcing the day's crossword puzzle.
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Facebook wants to do the right thing — so it's using crowdsourcing to figure out how to do it.
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Hap realizes what's going on in the house, and plants the idea of a crowdsourcing game in Ruskin's head.
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But it's been making a buzz in the last year for new initiatives that have been pegged to crowdsourcing.
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But while the D-Noses developers work on increasing public engagement, skeptics have raised questions about crowdsourcing apps' accuracy.
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Rodriguez, the IDAEA researcher, agreed that crowdsourcing apps are more useful for raising awareness than gathering high-quality data.
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Together, millions of Echo owners are nurturing this imaginary friend, crowdsourcing her education like a legion of human mentors.
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Companies involved in data labelling or data annotation as it is also called include crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon.
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They're getting patients' genomes sequenced and sharing the results with hackers, crowdsourcing analysis of their data from global geeks.
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Today, JetSmarter is betting on a new business model — acting as a crowdsourcing middleman between passengers and private jets.
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How communities and citizens participate, whether via crowdsourcing or behaviors, will become part of another layer of the evolution.
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Using Springboard, an online crowdsourcing platform, Starbucks partners at headquarters from every level can submit ideas, collaborate and innovate.
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The Atlas: An online community of city officials crowdsourcing ideas that is modernizing the $1.6 trillion local government market.
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Or he may not even feel the need to go to the bank and instead go straight to crowdsourcing!
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Since that time, it has been broadening the scope of those crowdsourcing efforts to include regular users as well.
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If this is in fact a new strategy, Facebook seems to be turning to mass-crowdsourcing for more data.
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LONDON — Islamic State (ISIS) supporters in several European cities have been reportedly located thanks to an online crowdsourcing effort.
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Although crowdsourcing isn't a new concept, the help of the internet has helped the crowds themselves grow exponentially larger.
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As she was working on her second cookbook, Cravings: Hungry For More, Chrissy Teigen perfected the art of crowdsourcing.
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Schukin said that Buglife is more about user feedback/crowdsourcing the types of bugs which are difficult to automate.
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Partnering with Campaign Zero and Stay Woke, their ethos is crowdsourcing information, so that was embedded in the partnership.
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"I'd always been fascinated by crowdsourcing platforms like Wikipedia (for information) and Stack Overflow (for technical questions)," he says.
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Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace where anyone can post tasks that need completing for small sums of money.
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Companies involved in data labeling or data annotation as it is also called include crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon.
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According to BasicFinder Chief Executive Du Lin, hiring trained labellers in China is cheaper than using Western crowdsourcing marketplaces.
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Instead, they rely on moderators and crowdsourcing to police the platform and report/block any listing that's a fake.
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Databases such as Snapshot Serengeti utilize crowdsourcing to classify the hundreds of different animals documented over "millions" of images.
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Amazon is just one example of a company that is crowdsourcing data across multiple vendors, individuals, geographies, industries, etc.
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It's a simple enough idea: crowdsourcing data that could help stop litter from being created in the first place.
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Now it appears people are crowdsourcing photos and reviews of their legal weed on a subreddit called /r/RecPics!
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The bill backs greater use of prizes, competitions, and crowdsourcing to engage the public in science and foster innovation.
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Adigun raised a total of $150,000 on GoFundMe, a crowdsourcing website, to help fund her team's training and gear.
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"We are hoping this will jumpstart a major crowdsourcing movement where merchants and customers alike will add," he said.
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Some crowdsourcing exercise that involves the "American people," many of whom believed the fake news in the first place?
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He was explaining how he plans to pay for Medicare-for-all, and he was doing it using crowdsourcing.
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The most popular strategic foresight tool among executives we surveyed is scenario planning, followed by horizon scanning and crowdsourcing.
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The editors surveyed the magazine's contributions to what are now conventions of online media: links in stories, aggregation, crowdsourcing.
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But the idea of crowdsourcing fact-checking also belies what some say is Mark Zuckerberg's fundamental misunderstanding of journalism.
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One trouble with those sorts of crowdsourcing websites — such as GoFundMe — is that it's very easy to mislead people.
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Crowdsourcing platforms in Germany recently co-signed a code of conduct with IG Metall, the country's largest trade union.
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He combined his research in hematology, his physician wife's clinical expertise and crowdsourcing to develop an individualized treatment plan.
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Rather than crowdsourcing movie recommendations from Facebook or Twitter, he asks store employees what they think he should watch.
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Now, some of the white supremacists involved are crowdsourcing a lawsuit against the city for allegedly violating their civil rights.
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"The FCC should work to validate industry's numbers through other methods like crowdsourcing and measurement from other sources," Sohn said.
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For it, the artists hit up crowdsourcing websites and asked that the workers record a series of dances for webcams.
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Using the crowdsourcing platform Razoo, Hilborn was able to raise $22016,26 to pay for emergency travel insurance and research permits.
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The pair have put together a contest in search of the best Mod idea – akin to ZTE's recent crowdsourcing effort.
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After eating at the Powell location, more than 400 people have reported symptoms since Saturday on the crowdsourcing site iwaspoisoned.com.
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It's as if these guys have a playbook and are crowdsourcing ways to destroy a person who dared leave them.
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They were led there by an in-game puzzle, discovered by chance and solved thanks to a large crowdsourcing effort.
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But by crowdsourcing development, Facebook could eventually offer AR experiences connected to any location, real-world object, holiday or activity.
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Harambe McHarambeface is obviously a nod to the meme of the disaster that is crowdsourcing a name for things online.
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It developed its own platform for crowdsourcing donations and built a separate platform for managing the cases of its clients.
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Hyperloop Transportation argues its fundamentally different from Hyperloop Technologies and SpaceX because it operates on a volunteer and crowdsourcing platform.
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That's why its new dramas are about Navy SEALs, SWAT team members, and a guy who solves crimes through crowdsourcing.
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The project was inspired by the Lego Ideas crowdsourcing platform earlier this year and the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.
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"We have hundreds of people across 10 countries crowdsourcing low-cost solutions to save lives, time and money," Wong said.
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That's where crowdsourcing comes in—Toronto police came to the event, and received the information a group of hackers collected.
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Earlier in the day — when donations had reached $225 million — he praised those who had donated to his crowdsourcing campaign.
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Josh Gustin, co-founder of the online men's wear store Gustin in San Francisco, put his own twist on crowdsourcing.
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More than 500 people contributed to an online crowdsourcing campaign that helped raise the money needed to lay the pipe.
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In particular, many relied on Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing platform where workers can complete short tasks like surveys.
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Some of the missions may include coordinating search-and-rescue operations, surveying chemical accidents and large car crashes, and crowdsourcing.
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Twitter is exploring ways to crack down on misinformation by crowdsourcing efforts to flag misleading tweets, the Washington Post reported.
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The Holderness Family parodies Rihanna's "Work" through crowdsourcing a topic, song, buzzwords and current events from their fans' Facebook comments.
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The mobile app, which provides real-time data from transit agencies with user crowdsourcing, gives users notifications from their ride.
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The Waze for supercharger feature is considered "phase one" of the company's plans to broaden its crowdsourcing and social community.
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The embattled punk cabaret artist became known for her unusual revenue model, which relies on crowdsourcing and subscription-based patronage.
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Of course, He wasn't the only one with the idea to collaborate on building simple tools and supplies through crowdsourcing.
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Artists have used websites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and GoFundMe to raise money for projects since the inception of digital crowdsourcing.
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They're tallying traveler queries and building schedules around their searches as they edge toward crowdsourcing where and when they fly.
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But does IARPA's initiative represent current and future crowdsourcing trends, especially given the long R&D cycle of government organizations?
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A friend of mine recently did an online crowdsourcing effort to attract money to fund her new small-business venture.
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"Our tool offers a great UI/UX, high-quality results and the latest security tests thanks to our crowdsourcing," he adds.
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For that reason, crowdsourcing could be seen as a limited means of collecting data about potential public health problems, he said.
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Now, a startup founded in Poland using crowdsourcing for information gathering and e-learning is announcing a growth round of funding.
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Online groups are also crowdsourcing and highlighting information from social media accounts in Hubei to translate and share on other platforms.
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It also shifted away from the idea of crowdsourcing to take advantage of other technologies, like computer vision and machine learning.
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First is Operation Marching Orders, which is an online policy poll designed to create a set of specific goals via crowdsourcing.
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Crowdsourcing is an important part of Vox Borders, and I'm looking for locals from India that can help out next season.
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"Law & Order" and "Daredevil" actor Vincent D'Onofrio took a new approach to that consideration by crowdsourcing his Twitter followers for opinions.
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Kara Swisher: And in terms of hiring people ... Sheryl, you talked about this, this crowdsourcing of what our news source is.
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Can you imagine Tim Cook crowdsourcing the name of an Apple venture, like Musk did for his Boring Company's tunneling machine?
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The film is being shared via Loveback, a new crowdsourcing site which allows viewers to donate directly to the artists themselves.
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Earlier this year at CES, Chinese smartphone maker ZTE announced that it would be crowdsourcing suggestions for a new mobile device.
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On this Valentine's Day, Europeana is launching a crowdsourcing project to transcribe the text of digitized World War I love letters.
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Who needs us when institutions can figure out, thanks to social media, crowdsourcing and machine learning, audience preferences quickly and accurately?
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For publishers, Facebook's new ranking system raised immediate concerns, including whether crowdsourcing users' opinions on trustworthiness might be open to manipulation.
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While crowdsourcing can theoretically yield useful information, people without medical training are unlikely to be able to discern what's actually accurate.
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These crowdsourcing campaigns rarely go well — Exhibit A: Boaty McBoatface — and that goes double when a pre-existing controversy is involved.
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Frustrated shoppers on social media warned others of the hand sanitizer shortage, crowdsourcing lists of stores that still had an inventory.
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The industry appears to have matured, and entrepreneurs are now looking for novel ways to take crowdsourcing to the next level.
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Comparing notes is also widespread among users of global crowdsourcing platforms such as Mechanical Turk and Freelancer, where digital labour is traded.
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And the combination of using AI to scrape social media data alongside crowdsourcing human verification of sentiment pointed squarely in Trump's direction.
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We're also explaining how crowdsourcing technology is helping farmers overcome challenges and how DNA evidence was used to save a dog's life.
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But in the interim, a combination of crowdsourcing and individual donations has been forced to make up for the HBCU funding gap.
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As work on artificial intelligence plods along, an advanced form of crowdsourcing is emerging as an accelerated way to surpass human thinking.
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The four went on to create one of Africa's first globally recognized apps, the Ushahidi crowdsourcing software, now the Ushahidi IT company.
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This comes after last year's "Marines United" scandal, which revealed troops sharing and crowdsourcing nude photos of female service members online. Gen.
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The data can come from a range of sources, including satellite imagery, drone videos, simulations, crowdsourcing, social media and global positioning systems.
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"There's something for everyone," Feldman previously said in May of his fifth album which was funded largely via an IndiGogo crowdsourcing campaign.
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Crowdsourcing also can increase velocity by parallelizing work, so a sales team researching prospects can do it in hours rather than weeks.
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Customers have more options to customize crowdsourcing modes for timeline activity, statistics, maps, and options for picture and video inputs, he explained.
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Sure, crowdsourcing your medication needs probably isn't ideal, but at some point, a large collection of anecdotes does become (possibly flawed) data.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Through its Tournament Lab, NASA is making crowdsourcing a part of the future of space travel.
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A quick search on GoFundMe brought up dozens of campaigns for FOIA crowdsourcing related to requests made to all levels of government.
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And now there is even an independently run contest on design crowdsourcing site Freelancer, which is seeking entries for a better design.
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More often than not, we're clued into cool new brands and trends from social media, crowdsourcing our swim-season shopping from there.
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Koder is a crowdsourcing software platform that brings teams of top developers to help companies build innovative apps and technology products. WeTravel
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More than once, law enforcement has accidentally unleashed a mob onto an innocent target through crowdsourcing intelligence from official social media feeds.
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Shaw later started a crowdsourcing fund online for the families of the four people killed in the shooting, raising more than $230,000.
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Many organizations find that the value you can gain from crowdsourcing research of vulnerabilities in a controlled way is well worth it.
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A crowdsourcing campaign for the family of the Secret Service officer who passed away on Tuesday has far exceeded its initial goal.
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Relying on a form of crowdsourcing, they sent circulars to postmasters in the Eastern United States each year and recorded their responses.
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They used crowdsourcing to find photographs of the lost treasures and replicated them through a 3-D reconstruction process known as photogrammetry.
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They take two different approaches: One uses crowdsourcing to solve your relationship issues, while the other gives you access to expert advice.
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Google currently rewards users for crowdsourcing this kind of information, but Street View cameras are tireless and never require incentives to contribute.
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But crowdsourcing still lives on, as evidenced by Kraft's plan to build its 22004 ad out of self-submitted photos of families.
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While crowdsourcing isn't necessarily a bad idea — Wikipedia turned out well, for example — it's an area that requires a lot of oversight.
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GlobalXplorer relies on crowdsourcing and high-resolution satellite imagery to protect and identify archaeological sites around the world that are currently unknown.
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Tech We're Using On her New York City law enforcement beat, Ali Watkins mines CompStat for trends and crowdsourcing for breaking news.
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Tata Communications also began the F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize, an annual crowdsourcing competition that has fans proposing digital solutions for the sport.
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Yuan Xiaohui, the CEO of Beijing-based tech company QuantUrban, is trying to create a useful coronavirus crowdsourcing service while avoiding rumors.
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"Crowdsourcing is providing an all-round perspective for netizens to fact-check the authenticity of a large amount of information," he said.
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Ms. Dhegrae doesn't want to have to rely on annual crowdsourcing appeals to close gaps, and she wants to raise artist fees.
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Separately, the police arrested two activists for online activity, including one who used a crowdsourcing website to raise funds for the protests.
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The Indian space agency has been tight-lipped about the fate of Vikram, but crowdsourcing and NASA's openness led to its discovery.
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Then she recalled a conversation she had with Creative Action Network, a startup aimed at crowdsourcing artwork to support artists and social causes.
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For every bad idea, there's a crowdsourcing campaign with a soapbox and a big-ass megaphone, ready to make it even worse. Interested?
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I listen to customers, and I place my bets usually in areas that end up being right because of crowdsourcing and data collection.
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It also includes skills that may not be immediately objectively measurable, but where crowdsourcing can quickly yield an accurate judgment on performance e.g.
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Some of the most novel case studies and applications of innovation and crowdsourcing are coming from unexpected places: large enterprises and government agencies.
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Local news outlets like The Incline have taken to crowdsourcing the movements of the dozens of autonomous cars that are operating in Pittsburgh.
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After crowdsourcing amongst a fairly random group of people, the consensus was that the man in the picture was 22 and a half.
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Set for November, the conference will test crowdsourcing ideas and solutions on challenges in the black community and debut the organization's digital platform.
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The network has been crowdsourcing the questions in advance of the event; the candidates will have two-minute time limits on their responses.
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The database is grown through crowdsourcing information, which is then processed and verified by the company before being made available on the app.
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They have since begun a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money to travel to Rome in the hope of seeing him testify in person.
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In 2013 the University's Student Success Office wanted to have some fun with this so they started crowdsourcing goose nest locations over Twitter.
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One anonymous industry insider has come up with what she believes to be the best solution: Crowdsourcing stories of sexual misconduct on Tumblr.
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For games that have been delisted from the shop, the group is crowdsourcing from Ouya players that might have it on their consoles.
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Tagger, a crowdsourcing platform, lets the public tag images, and a feature called Art Detective allows the public to help identify unlabeled artworks.
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We talked to the national women's ice hockey team of India, above, which relies on outside organizations and crowdsourcing for equipment and funding.
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As expected, the surge in newly unemployed Silicon Valley workers has led to new forums, message boards, and apps crowdsourcing new employment opportunities.
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Working through the crowdsourcing service Amazon Mechanical Turk, they earned pennies for each photo they labeled, churning through hundreds of tags an hour.
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This is definitely a grid for which crowdsourcing is warranted, a bit of cross-pollination among all of our strengths, if you will.
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One of the tricky things about crowdsourcing anything, especially something as subjective as a word list, is that everyone has slightly different tastes.
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Mr. Trump first floated the Peace House in a morning tweet that felt like a trial balloon or even an exercise in crowdsourcing.
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Mate X (Jet Grey, 14Ah) For those who aren't familiar with this model, it launched following a successful crowdsourcing campaign in late-2018.
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To improve the performance of one of the world's biggest supercomputers, the agency is crowdsourcing some new ideas about an old coding language.
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Crowdsourcing, or "the wisdom of the crowd," provides Tesla with minute details ranging from their driver's hand placement to how instruments are operated.
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The effort may soon shift into higher gear, thanks to an idea borrowed from the internet that has helped in other fields: crowdsourcing.
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For her part, Bastian wrote a guide on how to "Help Find Missing Scientists' Faces," with the intention of crowdsourcing some of the digging.
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The digital platform, Tomnod, is also using artificial intelligence (AI) powered by crowdsourcing to automatically identify features of interest in satellite and aerial imagery.
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A new digital platform overseen by America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration encourages the crowdsourcing of bathymetric data, letting mariners upload their findings easily.
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Last November, General Motors said it would start making electric bicycles, and it announced a crowdsourcing campaign to come up with a brand name.
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While crowdsourcing is the official term for this information gathering method, Weiss believes it's simply a natural practice for a smart brand in 2016.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This week, the obit of Jesus, white male pathology, Giorgione, Thelma Golden, RuPaul, crowdsourcing a name, and more.
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When we did some informal crowdsourcing on questions to ask Karrueche Tran, nearly all of my coworkers demanded to know about her skin routine.
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Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer is known for being something of a Renaissance man – from his drone hobby to his love of crowdsourcing memes.
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As the market for innovation and crowdsourcing continues to grow, the enterprise customer is searching for co-creation frameworks that can deliver real value.
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As Nasdaq reports, the bug bounty targets HP&aposs printers specifically and will be handled through a partnership with the crowdsourcing cybersecurity service Bugcrowd .
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Pinterest, the online service for bookmarking images, has acquired Jelly, a crowdsourcing Q&A app co-founded by Biz Stone, one of Twitter's founders.
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Peter Nawa, a publisher in his native Zambia, was placed at Boston's Cambridge College, where he learned about product development, crowdsourcing, and social media.
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Over the next few months, the company will up the ante on its "Made in the USA" promise, via a new a crowdsourcing campaign.
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The app, called Gershad, uses crowdsourcing to identify the locations of Iran's morality police, known by their Persian name Gasht-e Ershad ("guidance patrol").
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They are two friends who have been haunted by Cesnik's death and have dedicated their time to researching and crowdsourcing the murder via Facebook .
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But hey, chances are they'll just use their own version anyway, after making the fans feel closer to the process with the crowdsourcing move.
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In an interview with Today Parents, the father-to-be talked about how he's preparing for the new baby by crowdsourcing tips from Reddit.
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It follows a robust tradition of crowdsourcing in the tech industry, from volunteer-edited Wikipedia articles to the traffic information and mapping app Waze.
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In 2010, he founded CrowdRise, a site that uses social networking and crowdsourcing to make it easier and less expensive to raise charitable donations.
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Beyond Kickstarter crowdsourcing, this is closer to the Bandcamp model of offering it for free and hoping people love it enough to want more.
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The groom, 40, is the vice president for communications and policy at GoFundMe, a crowdsourcing and fund-raising website based in Redwood City, Calif.
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Well, the first time I left a newspaper job, I launched a one-man-band investigative reporting operation back when crowdsourcing was the thing.
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But many people commented in alarm: Crowdsourcing medical advice on social media, is that a reliable way to get life-or-death health information?
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OurCrowd is one of the most active venture capital firms in Irsael — and an unusual one, because it raises its investment funds through crowdsourcing.
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He's an early pioneer of some of the most-used tactics in the tech startup world, including viral marketing, A/B testing and crowdsourcing.
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They had to be active and highly rated on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, a paid crowdsourcing platform that researchers often use to find participants.
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Wired magazine reported this month that the resistance is "weaponizing data" with the emergence of a new nonprofit, crowdsourcing fund-raising tool called Flippable.
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Wikipedia was an unknown quantity; the name for what it did, crowdsourcing, didn't even exist until 203, when two WIRED editors coined the word.
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The idea for the Lego set, which will sell for $69.99, came from a fan as part of a crowdsourcing initiative called Lego Ideas.
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The accomplishment was a triumph of crowdsourcing in modern space research, and pointed to the value of NASA's openness with its data and operations.
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I learned through my years of crowdsourcing that it would be hard: the pregnancy horror stories, the birthing nightmares, and those dreaded first few months.
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The crowdsourcing campaign is being organized by Nathan Damigo, founder of supremacist group Identity Evropa, with the aid of lawyer Kyle Bristow, another avowed racist.
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They have a new tool that can help, though -- crowdsourcing, getting information usually through the Internet from other farmers who faced and overcome specific problems.
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The creators want "continuous co-creation and crowdsourcing" to expand the platform and tap into the countless good ideas for sustainable innovation still out there.
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The FCC finally acknowledged the mapping problem last summer, announcing it would consider a more granular approach using crowdsourcing and geospatial data provided by ISPs.
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It's not about crowdsourcing as a marketing tactic or as a value proposition to the customer; it's just baked into the DNA of the company.
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And when enough connected cars are on the road, it may be able to bypass municipal signals entirely by crowdsourcing the data, the company said.
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School systems likewise could use crowdsourcing to connect master teachers with teachers seeking professional growth, bringing them into the 21st century without breaking the bank.
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He launched Google Maps in India and managed MapMaker, the crowdsourcing tool that gave Google feet on the ground in tiny towns around the world.
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All three products are launching on Kickstarter today — perhaps unsurprisingly, given the continued success the company has had on the crowdsourcing platform over the years.
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Eleven days out from the second U.S. presidential debate, Donald Trump's campaign is crowdsourcing ideas for how the GOP nominee might attack rival Hillary Clinton.
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"The most significant new type of funding for the white supremacist movement is crowdfunding or crowdsourcing," noted a recent report by the Anti-Defamation League.
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Right now, the quotes are manually programmed into its software, but the company's exploring the possibility of crowdsourcing the quotes in order to include more.
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If anyone was going to do crowdsourcing beauty right, it makes sense that it would be Glossier, founded by Into the Gloss blogger Emily Weiss.
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After that, a further crowdsourcing effort could extend synthesized speech to the remaining 280 languages in which Wikipedia is available — albeit, likely poco a poco.
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It works by pulling data from lists compiled by other users, and seeing which books often appear together—you're essentially crowdsourcing your next book recommendation.
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Raising capital meant crowdsourcing a community of people who believed in what they were building and were willing to seed it into their own networks.
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His book, Art in the Making: Artists and their Materials, from the Studio to Crowdsourcing, coauthored with Julia Bryan Wilson, will be published in June.
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Though current digital mapping projects, like the Missing Maps Project, use cutting-edge technology, they do share one thing in common with Braun's technique: crowdsourcing.
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Unable to afford access to healthcare, people are turning to alternatives like crowdsourcing platforms to fill in the gaps left by insurance companies and current policies.
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Workers abroad who label data for Alegion, a Texas-based crowdsourcing platform, earn between $3 and $6 an hour, Alegion CEO Nathaniel Gates told IEEE Spectrum.
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If you're thinking of using crowdsourcing to move your business forward, make sure the Turk Myth doesn't "crowd out" the more complex (and more hopeful) reality.
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The self-described microtransit service will start out in preplanned service areas in Manhattan and Brooklyn, eventually adding routes in additional neighborhoods based on customer crowdsourcing.
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BRCK, which is an outgrowth of Kenya's iHub and Ushahidi crowdsourcing company, has been developing a suite of products to meet public and private internet needs.
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Venture capital today is being wholly redefined by new crowdsourcing models and of course, the rise of blockchain and the world of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).
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Typically, crowdsourcing takes place on a brand's social media channels where consumers can take surveys, vote, and comment to give feedback on shades, trends, and products.
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A crowdsourcing platform for news would be a colossal waste of time and money, but Jeff Bezos's ownership of The Washington Post has been anything but.
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"Remote sensing data can be powerful, especially when combined with cheap classification tools like crowdsourcing or machine learning," says Paul Niehaus, co-founder of the organization.
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The men listed were said to have engaged in some form of sexual misconduct; their names were added, often from anonymous sources, through a crowdsourcing effort.
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" Crowdsourcing helped the Olympian in a really big way: In just under six months, her page managed to raise nearly $31,000 â€" mostly from total strangers.
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Crowdsourcing the observations of people in their homes provides a powerful way to see, through big data and analysis, what scientists couldn't see on their own.
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The idea is that crowdsourcing talent from underdeveloped countries can help inventors get their models built far less expensively than they could in the United States.
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The software engineer, Joshua Vantard, has been using crowdsourcing techniques on a website, Gathrer, to amass information on those who had been found or were missing.
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The next big thing for crowdsourcing will be a better synergy between sophisticated information technology and the human judgment that is, at least for now, irreplaceable.
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The future of crowdsourcing relies on its ability to integrate the human component (crowds) with advanced technological capabilities, most prominently artificial intelligence (AI) and big data.
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Related: These Are the Most Likely Candidates for Hillary Clinton's VP Choice Elected officials are also allowed to donate personally to delegates, including on crowdsourcing sites.
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A crowdsourcing fundraiser got her out of detention on $7,500 bail and now she is waiting in New York for her kids to be released to her.
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Later, it takes me around 30 minutes to edit the clips to the required 2 to 5 seconds, and upload them to Amazon's crowdsourcing website Mechanical Turk.
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As well as the 6.5 million euro funding, BeMyEye announced it had acquired rival LocalEyes, making it the biggest European player in the mobile data crowdsourcing space.
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Fitbit has also introduced some new apps that will help you monitor your wellness, like Sickweather, a crowdsourcing community for mapping illnesses, and glucose monitoring app Dexcom.
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Perhaps counterintuitively — at least for American managers skeptical of unions — the movement toward greater openness in crowdsourcing practices benefits potential employers as much as it benefits crowdworkers.
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Modern feminist theory is all about crowdsourcing, which is feminist and empowering because it's a word used in tech, and tech is an overwhelmingly male industry (blech!).
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With increasing enterprise investment being made in innovation and crowdsourcing, a new workforce with new skills will be needed to deliver results from co-creation business models.
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For now WFP is mainly relying on ideas generated within the organization, but in future may look at crowdsourcing new innovations to help end hunger, Opp said.
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He points out that with crowdsourcing, there's also the threat of groups manipulating the truth: voting politically in line with personal convictions, for example, or just trolling.
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Facebook was an early pioneer of online translation, building a crowdsourcing tool to get users around the world to translate its interface's text into their local tongues.
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He wrote or cowrote all but one of the double-album's 143 tracks, and played a large part in its fundraising by spearheading an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign.
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On the Fourth of July, they launched a project called WTF — short for "Win The Future" — that is virtually crowdsourcing a political agenda on Twitter, Recode reported.
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Before we jump to crowdsourcing, we must ask ourselves, how much assistance can be useful outside the institution unless the in-house capacity exists to process it?
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A member of Congress from Tennessee proposes that the country solve this funding problem the way all financial problems are solved in modern America -- by crowdsourcing. Rep.
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Still, his penchant for crowdsourcing DJs and musical connections remains, and via his new Facebook project that asks aspiring producers to post their tracks on his page.
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The redditor also said that for now he's essentially crowdsourcing by posting on various forums by pretending to just need some help with a legit mining operation.
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Lego is putting a new official International Space Station kit up for sale starting next month, after the project was originally suggested on its Ideas crowdsourcing platform.
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Ms. Clark suggested that Mr. Avenatti, who is raising money to defend Ms. Clifford on a crowdsourcing website has made himself ubiquitous in the media on purpose.
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"The OscarsSoWhite hashtag has to be viewed as a synecdoche for 'industry so white,'" said Franklin Leonard, the founder of The Black List, a script crowdsourcing site.
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She investigates new forms of organizing for the production of scientific and technological innovation such as crowdsourcing, open source, open online innovation communities, Wikipedia, hackathons, makeathons, etc.
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Startups like Deliverr, Shipmonk and Darkstore offer competitive or better solutions in terms of cost and speed, usually controlling supply of storage directly and outsourcing or crowdsourcing delivery.
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More than 6,500 volunteers from 150 countries signed up to take part in Amnesty's "Troll Patrol, " a crowdsourcing project designed to process large-scale data about online abuse.
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A pseudonymous Twitter account is crowdsourcing the names of people who attended a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia — and trying to get them fired from their jobs.
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The Kremlin launched groups of "cyber guards" to search for prohibited content, and tried to hollow out the volunteer movement by replicating independent crowdsourcing sites with its own.
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Some turn to crowdsourcing agencies like CrowdFlower, which has their own training data interface, but they only work with generalist labor, not the experts required for many fields.
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This increased activity has contributed to a growing market for innovation and crowdsourcing capabilities, resulting in a recent $20 million worth of open innovation service contracts with NASA.
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Crowdsourcing and crowd-powered tools have been described by Peter Diamandis to be an exponential technology because of the exceptional access to innovation and enablement that they provide.
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It's no secret that digital media companies are hurting, and crowdsourcing the process that generates some virtual currencies is certainly an innovative solution, though definitely an experimental one.
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Some of the most alarming aspects of both Sharp Eyes and the Police Cloud—including algorithmic assessments, facial recognition, and crowdsourcing suspects—are happening right here, right now.
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They live in Portland, Oregon, where for the past two years she has worked to launch a start-up video crowdsourcing site for collective action, called in-it.com.
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Limited the crowdsourcing competition to those devices seemed like the company was resigning itself to a fate of suggestions along the lines of bigger screens and battery batteries.
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If that sounds nice, you're in luck — Reddit's got your back, with a massive playlist curated from an enormous thread devoted to crowdsourcing the most beautiful songs ever.
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As Waze is an application that relies heavily on crowdsourcing, the overall group of people making reports can help weed out misinformation from polluting the constantly evolving map.
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The impact of low-cost, widely available connectivity is driving all sorts of new trends like crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and real-time collaboration among people anywhere in the world.
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Zelenskiy won big in April by departing from traditional politics, relying on comedy gigs, social media savvy and crowdsourcing policy ideas to climb the polls, while eschewing rallies.
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In addition to Bonnti's crowdsourcing initiative, a quick search of "beauty relief funds" on GoFundMe pulls up a number of other fundraising efforts focused on helping specific salons.
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The usefulness of such a small group for a genetic study is unclear, which is one reason Mr. Clement's company, now defunct, has turned into a crowdsourcing project.
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The contrast between the work the attendees brought along and Calloway's—she seemed to just be crowdsourcing material for a future Instagram caption about the event—was staggering.
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The fire has also promoted fundraising among Americans, with New York-based French Heritage Society and the Go Fund Me crowdsourcing platform among the first to offer help.
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The naturally occuring spring — the source of the mercury sulfide — predates Ruskin, and he's simply "crowdsourcing" the kids in order to figure out the greater puzzle of the house.
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That makes the ride-sharing firm the latest tech giant to adopt the strategy of crowdsourcing the auditing of its code to shore it up against less benevolent hackers.
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Google has done the heavy lifting by mapping pretty much the entire the world through labor intensive efforts like Street View and crowdsourcing real-time traffic updates with Waze.
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The workers were hired through a crowdsourcing gig company outfit called Figure Eight, which pays as little at $1 an hour for people to perform short, seemingly mindless tasks.
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For those worried about their homes, a crowdsourcing platform called Salva Tu Casa (Save Your Home) launched, linking architects and structural engineers with people who want their homes inspected.
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Comey also said the FBI had no intentions off crowdsourcing more tools for various versions of the iPhone, saying the method would not be scalable due to the costs.
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Both the public and private sector have a lot to gain from better post-capture analysis tools to help automate processes previously relegated to crowdsourcing or painstaking individual search.
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Jeff Bezos is crowdsourcing Instagram about his spat with a Trump administration official: He's offering a "Seinfeld"-style "Serenity Now" to the Instagrammer who gives him the best advice.
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Viewers will have the chance to get involved with Facebook crowdsourcing prank ideas to be used on the show and even choosing select members to participate in the pranks.
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Shortly after the DOE debacle, Holthaus went on a weekend-long tear crowdsourcing information from scientists on Twitter, and building a catalog of the most important public climate datasets.
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Players also realize this supposedly casual game is also hiding key information from them, requiring a massive crowdsourcing project and the work of some blackhat hackers to figure out.
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Another official-sounding scientific group called the New England Eclipse Behavior Committee did a pre-Internet-era version of crowdsourcing and had skilled and unskilled observers send in observations.
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They started using that interaction as a way of sourcing design from each other, and that turned into our first model, which was design crowdsourcing on a global scale.
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The whole thing is the brainchild of Grant Duffrin, an artist who founded Shrek Fest four years ago, and has spent the years since crowdsourcing talent for Shrek Retold.
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They encountered devoted fans first-hand at their plush toy company, Squishables, which relied on crowdsourcing for new products, to the delight and sometime dismay of their vocal fanbase.
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Or maybe, it's time to stop crowdsourcing misconceptions and start providing real answers to things like "Does going vegan really help climate change?" and "Where does lettuce come from?"
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Meanwhile, Amazon's decision to quickly ramp up its own database of answers by way of crowdsourcing opens itself up to many potential challenges, including most notably, abuse and inaccuracy.
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It's effectively an effort to use crowdsourcing to reveal and broadcast the real-life identities of those who had been essentially anonymous online — call it doxxing with Chinese characteristics.
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Waze, the crowdsourcing navigation app, uses Inrix and other data sources as it enters the "initial stages" of integrating parking information, said Fej Shmuelevitz, the company's business development manager.
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"We're talking about crowdsourcing, in simply putting the list out there," said Frank LaRose, Ohio's secretary of state, whose office oversaw the purge and who manages the election here.
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Campbell says Zubale can save — even make — these companies money by crowdsourcing the same tasks to independent contractors who can choose from an inventory of similar jobs near them.
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They put the lengthy list up for a vote on the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service to determine which of their candidate sounds were most easily recognized and frequently heard.
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Though using Google Docs to help organize protest efforts may seem like a recent trend, it's not the first time online crowdsourcing has been used as a tool of resistance.
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Tomnod, owned by Colorado-based satellite company DigitalGlobe, has led crowdsourcing campaigns that have attracted tens of thousands of volunteers around the globe, including work to map populations across Ethiopia.
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" Heidelberger, who runs the liberal Dakota Free Press, has been crowdsourcing photos to find Butina's hunting companions and not been surprised to get comments like "no way, that's my boss!
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"As the father-to-be, I'm teetering on a fence of emotions," Jim Burns, the expectant dad, wrote on the crowdsourcing platform Meal Train, according to the New York Post.
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Like basically we're looking at a decade of like people crowdsourcing augmented reality games that they're going to take really seriously and are gonna probably have some pretty insane consequences.
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The company is seeking input from consumers to help name the e-bikes, offering $10,000 for the top submission in a crowdsourcing campaign, and $1,000 each to nine runners-up.
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Steve Cohen is putting up to $250 million into a new fund managed by Quantopian, a trading platform that uses crowdsourcing to create new algorithms to invest in the markets.
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Instead he's crowdsourcing one of his next films, Empire Strikes Back XXX, asking for that half a million dollars he'd be wasting otherwise, and then he's releasing it for free.
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Sometimes, it's grad students in a research lab; frequently, it's workers on crowdsourcing sites or in cubicles in Malaysia or China, paid mere cents for every new datapoint they create.
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UNORTHODOX CAMPAIGNING Zelenskiy won big in April by departing from traditional politics, relying on comedy gigs, social media savvy and crowdsourcing policy ideas to climb the polls, while eschewing rallies.
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Previously CBS said they were "looking into" the allegations against their star, who played a Silicon Valley tech innovator who used crowdsourcing to help solve crimes in the drama series.
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Even before the Atlantic Council created it 2016, the team drew attention in Washington policy circles and beyond for using crowdsourcing and technology to challenge the claims of nation-states.
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"Crowdsourcing beef is one way to offer the transparency consumers deserve, and to give beef producers an equal snapshot into where their beef goes and who it nourishes," said Raudsepp.
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When Taubes and Attia first hatched their "Manhattan Project for nutrition," they planned to work on it nights and weekends, crowdsourcing funds from the low-carb corners of the internet.
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Similar concerns have arisen in a project testing whether Facebook could flag fake news faster by crowdsourcing the work of identifying supporting or refuting evidence to some of its users.
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"Over the last couple of weeks, since the Intel-Mobileye transaction, all hell has broken loose," says Jon Medved, CEO of OurCrowd, an Israel-based crowdsourcing platform for accredited investors.
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As consumers vied for a chance to make Lip-Kit history, we realized that Jenner had caught on to a greater phenomenon in the beauty industry: the power of crowdsourcing.
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Epic has also set up a crowdsourcing design platform that allows architects, manufacturers and technology firms to float affordable solutions for flood-relief housing, open-air classrooms, and outhouse toilets.
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The balloon will be outside Trump's rally Tuesday at the Amway Center in Orlando after a crowdsourcing effort raised more than $3,500 to transport the 85033-foot diaper-wearing balloon.
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"As far as learning how to book support via crowdsourcing, that's just an evolution that I'm coming up with right now because I've made a lot of mistakes," Bryarly says.
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And some amateur internet sleuths have been doxxing the Charlottesville marchers, crowdsourcing the identities of suspected white nationalists from online videos and photos, but it's risky, and sometimes misfires badly.
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His union is looking to begin crowdsourcing funds to help people who may face evictions, not have access to health care, or don't have enough money to go grocery shopping.
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He told me that the Alternative seeks to "change the political culture" by crowdsourcing its platform through "political laboratories" that invite Danes to read policy papers and meet with experts.
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This does the same thing, just through a sort of crowdsourcing, as well as some images that may have a bit less, uh, gravitas than anything Reggio would have selected.
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These tasks can be met by, among other things, new curatorial strategies through which museums partner with visitors to develop activities and events: co-curation projects, and crowdsourcing exhibition content.
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My order didn't come from an all-new Wendy's delivery service, but from JoyRun, an app that, through the power of crowdsourcing, puts new delivery opportunities right at your fingertips.
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Crowdsourcing and "citizen science" can help people track slaves, said Kevin Bales, research director at the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab, the world's first large-scale research platform on modern slavery.
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There are still a few steps left in the crowdsourcing process, like choosing colors and naming the thing, with the final product expected to go to market some time next year.
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The blimp, dubbed "Trump Baby," was approved by none other than London Mayor Sadiq Khan himself after a crowdsourcing campaign amassed over $20,000 and 10,000 signatures in favor of the stunt.
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Steve Cohen is putting up to $250 million into a new fund managed by the start-up Quantopian, a trading platform that uses crowdsourcing to create new algorithms for investing capital.
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Many have literally suggested crowdsourcing for one of the richest companies on earth in order to obtain the version of their beloved franchise that they wish to see in the world.
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Wealthy, educated patients or "those who are really good at social media or crowdsourcing" tend to have an advantage in accessing experimental drugs, as well as top specialists in the field.
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Plus, it's hoping to incentivize users with an in-app indicator showing you exactly how many other riders you're helping out by using its GO feature to contribute to its crowdsourcing.
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The hope is that through the power of crowdsourcing, users around the world can get help with their undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or uncured medical conditions, not dissimilarly from El Moussa's fateful connection.
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Flitto's corpus includes sets of human-translated sentences from its crowdsourcing service, which is used for things like slang, pop culture references or dialects that might stymie a machine translation service.
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Further, it's also not clear how the study's results would generalize internationally beyond the U.S. Despite these possible issues, crowdsourcing is a promising approach to fighting the spread of fake news.
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It offered a wider pool for researchers than undergraduates on campus, who before online crowdsourcing had been the main participants in many of these studies, and for a relatively low cost.
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Riders can check routes in the Chariot app, and even propose their own new routes that contribute to the company's crowdsourcing efforts in determining how best to serve actual user needs.
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Mr. Cavalcanti, 23, is the founder of the Open Source COVID23 Medical Supplies, a Facebook group that is crowdsourcing solutions to address the diminishing stock of medical equipment around the world.
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Via, which offers low-cost car pool rides through parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, recently used crowdsourcing to poll its best customers on where it should take its service next.
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Tang said that while crowdsourcing can make things more confusing, it's also the best way in the current information ecosystem to deal with the sheer scale of the global news cycle.
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For Omar Akhtar, a digital marketing analyst at research company Altimeter, the creation of a virtual analyst isn't completely new, but he is impressed by the crowdsourcing element of finding insights.
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The company spent a few months crowdsourcing locations around the world that are either open to the public or OK with having people wander into their storefronts asking for water refills.
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And while it may seem weird that a Food Network personality is crowdsourcing ideas for her new cookbook, this isn't the first time Drummond has asked her fans for their recipe ideas.
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It also ticks all the boxes for buzzwords in the world of geeks: apps, the cloud, crowdsourcing, 3D printing, space travel (only "big data" and the "blockchain"—don't ask—are mysteriously missing).
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NASA has always been a fan of you and your ideas, often relying on crowdsourcing for thoughts about fun projects like the search for exoplanets and studying the surface of the moon.
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This is an urbanism rooted in data, crowdsourcing, and democratic planning policies, with video games on hand to help design better data diagrams of our cities or better data flows within them.
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In a novel approach to the problem, the authors turned to crowdsourcing to help them develop a computer algorithm that would take over some of the duties of an experienced radiation oncologist.
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Crowdsourcing ruled the roost at the 7th Crunchies in 2014, with Kickstarter taking home the prize as the Best Overall Product or Startup of 2013 by changing the way companies get funded.
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Transforming his pain into action, Silicon Valley genius Jeffrey Tanner (Piven) sets about employing his crowdsourcing app to solve the case, working from the theory a million minds are better than one.
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In a recent paper, we document one approach that seems surprisingly promising: using crowdsourcing to identify unreliable outlets and then making content from those outlets less likely to appear in the newsfeed.
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For searching and crowdsourcing tips, it's tough to beat the old-guard apps, led by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — all established networks that are easy to use and have a broad reach.
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Because we're basically talking about using crowdsourcing to connect the devices to the internet, this kind of network is obviously not ideal for applications where real-time access to data is paramount.
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Parcak herself, who prefers the worthy title of "space archaeologist," helped to commandeer the innovative use of satellite imagery and crowdsourcing to explore regions of the Earth currently off-limits to researchers.
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GlobalXplorer, self-described as an "Indiana Jones Meets Google Earth" platform, relies on crowdsourcing and high-resolution satellite imagery to protect and identify archaeological sites around the world that are currently unknown.
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Australians Are Mailing In Feathers to Help Find Out: A fun story about clever crowdsourcing of climate change research — by asking Australians to pick up feathers and put them in the post.
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When during the campaign, he was asked to share his plans for the presidency, "Ze" simply said that he would ask the people what they want through popular referendums and ideas crowdsourcing.
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There are plenty of documents for all: as of this writing, the campaign called "Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote" had 48,380 documents in its crowdsourcing archive, and 23,363 hadn't been claimed.
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They passed the threads to workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform, who were asked to identify hate speech in the conversations and write short interventions to defuse the hateful messages.
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Though this feature allows the site to cover more global locations, the crowdsourcing nature of the site also has the potential to negatively impact the quality and reputability of the site's information.
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But of the 80 million items that have been added to Wikidata so far, around half have been entered by human volunteers, a level of crowdsourcing that has surprised even Wikidata's creators.
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This would seem to be a perfect job for crowdsourcing; at least one decibel-monitoring app claims to collate users' readings into a real-time guide to where the quiet things are.
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The nonsensical evidence-free mega-conspiracy theory was finally something vague enough to incorporate every bit of violent and paranoid fan fiction communities like 4chan and Reddit had been crowdsourcing since 2014.
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Now, an online service offers crowdsourcing to hire a lawyer, an effort that if broadly adopted could make it easier for people trying to cope with turmoil like divorce and personal injury.
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This Lego Cybertruck, however, submitted to the official Lego Ideas crowdsourcing website, is actually a remarkably faithful representation, and comes complete with fully articulating tailgate and "frunk" (front trunk, for the uninitiated).
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John Allen said the Islamic State was losing, and July 2628, FBI Director James Comey described the movement as resorting to "crowdsourcing" terrorism via social media to inspire attacks outside the Caliphate.
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Tarrant is beginning to explore hedge funds built on ideas that have sparked so many companies and created so much wealth in Silicon Valley—ideas that span artificial intelligence, crowdsourcing, and digital currencies.
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NASA has taken steps to address the problem and recently announced the winner of the Space Poop Challenge, a competition organized by its NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), hosted by the HeroX crowdsourcing initiative.
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That might not seem like a lot, but multiply the highest estimate by 992 million people and you get just over $4.9 billion in energy costs that a cryptojacker just saved by crowdsourcing.
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A Philadelphia couple is facing criticism after posting a crowdsourcing request that asked their neighbors to provide them with free meals and do chores for them after the birth of their first baby.
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In fact, it's one of the stickiest features of the app, which began as a navigational tool but now features everything from crowdsourcing to the ability to track shipments from dispatch to delivery.
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That's a bad idea, because while crowdsourced user reviews might work when you're shopping for a phone charger on Amazon, crowdsourcing "news" is what got us into this mess in the first place.
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Technology companies tend to think that the things that work best in their world will translate everywhere, which is why we end up with things like Amazon's initial attempts at crowdsourcing TV shows.
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In the U.S., companies say they are paying such workers $7 to $15 an hour, but that may be the top of the pay scale: Labelers also take on piecework from crowdsourcing platforms.
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How the companies are managing the labelers: Nathaniel Gates, CEO of Alegion, a Texas-based crowdsourcing platform, said his firm intentionally reduces the job of labeling to the simplest, most routine task possible.
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In East Africa, Kenya has become a regional tech capital, dubbed "Silicon Savannah", for its advances in digital finance, tech incubators, and local IT innovations such as BRCK and the Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform.
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Joining them on the line were some of the world's top experts in crowdsourcing and online engagement, including Reid Hoffman, the billionaire co-founder of LinkedIn, and Mitchell Baker, the chairman of Mozilla.
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This is the start of Snapchat crowdsourcing not only content but curation to dig out the best citizen journalism, comedy, and beauty shot on its app and turn it into easily consumable compendiums.
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IdeaScale, whose client roster includes big companies like Xerox and Ikea, has even run crowdsourcing campaigns for the White House, yielding money-saving ideas like a high-tech tool lending library at NASA.
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However, anyone who has followed the fate of a polar-research ship that the British government asked the public to name, via an Internet poll, will be sensitive to the perils of crowdsourcing.
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When he performed his Drake-featuring single "Where Ya At," he let the crowd rap Drake's parts for him, which worked out great seeing as Drake is basically hip-hop's premier crowdsourcing initiative.
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Although Allen has finished the raw animation by funding the project himself, the film still needs to be edited together with dialog and music, and he is crowdsourcing funding to complete the project.
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Technological innovation spurred by crowdsourcing and incentive prizes can be harnessed as instruments of change for everything from reducing carbon emissions to creating resiliency in our communities to the effects of climate change.
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The site also includes a text field where visitors can enter words, leading some to speculate that Glover either has new content hidden behind a password or is crowdsourcing titles for the album.
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Via's crowdsourcing is the latest development in New York City's rapidly changing transportation landscape, as ride-hail apps have flooded the streets with thousands of black cars and upended the yellow cab industry.
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When Biz Stone came up with the idea for Jelly in 2013, a Q&A app for crowdsourcing answers to everyday questions, he asked around Silicon Valley, looking for someone to dissuade him.
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Another thing that I think is interesting that we're doing is that there are some sort of mediums and forms of content that are very difficult to crowdsource — for example, crowdsourcing a video.
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Crowdsourcing and aggregating every automakers' mapping data would make a significant dent in the time and resources companies are spending on charting the world's streets, according to Mobileye co-founder and CTO Amnon Shashua.
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Changes in labour-market patterns may play a part too: companies now have a broader range of options for getting the job done, from automation and offshoring to using self-employed workers and crowdsourcing.
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These new features come on top of a range of product updates rolled out by Google Maps in the past few months, including Incognito mode, real-time speeds, parking locations, and traffic jam crowdsourcing.
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Lego is launching a brand-new set based on the Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time, thanks to a concept from the Lego Ideas crowdsourcing platform, where fans could submit ideas for future building sets.
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Plus, by way of crowdsourcing, Twitter could have tapped into other ongoing trends like "tweetstorms" (longer thoughts told as a series of tweets), and shifted those to Moments, potentially increasing clicks and engagement numbers.
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Funded through a government innovation agency and a successful crowdsourcing campaign, the start-up has also won several awards and grants, including best start-up in 2014's Global Innovation through Science & Technology competition.
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On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the start of the drive, Watt's foundation revealed that the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund raised $41.6 million to become the largest fundraiser conducted by crowdsourcing in history.
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The startup was founded in December 143 by chief executive officer Ethan Jaeseok Lee, who came up with the idea for crowdsourcing concert locations from fans while running a Korean fan site for Coldplay.
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In Beijing, Turner said, the ministries of environment and public housing have been crowdsourcing the effort to address water pollution, encouraging the public to send pictures and report the location of seemingly contaminated water.
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Last International Women's Day, Broadly contributor Dani Beckett—with the help of some crowdsourcing—came up with 100 such small actions, inspired by an annual list she would post to her social media accounts.
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Moovit, Waze, Juno, Via and Gett are crowdsourcing urban travel; Mobileye, iOnRoad, Nexar, TowerSec and Argus are enhancing safety and security; and Vroom, Beepi, and Engie are building the automotive marketplaces of the future.
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By providing the right incentives and opening up the power of solving to anyone through tools like prizes and crowdsourcing, we can turn a new perspective on carbon into an industry of climate opportunity.
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All told, as of Friday, about 1,000 of the country's 3,600 recording offices had shut down or curtailed their hours, according to the American Land Title Association, a trade group crowdsourcing a closures list.
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The tool would essentially serve as a global crowdsourcing system for evaluating the different treatments and remedies being tried by physicians and individuals throughout the world, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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You met there, the summers are lovely, and the country is not actively crowdsourcing "bong money" to make sure a big bell goes off at the precise moment it throws itself into international disarray.
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DigitalGlobe in 2014 used crowdsourcing to search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner, inviting internet users to comb through satellite images of over 1,200 square miles (3,200 square km) of seawater for signs of wreckage.
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Hap realized what the how was, and what it was doing, and then somehow persuaded Ruskin to use his "crowdsourcing" technique to lure "mostly young men" into the house to try and figure it out.
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WeFarm founder and CEO, Kenny Ewan, says, crowdsourcing information "unlocks generations' worth of grassroots knowledge, ideas, and experience among farmers," and is far more efficient than using mobile apps in mainly feature-phone-led regions.
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For all the talk of crowdsourcing and internet sleuthing being the future (CBS even has a new show with that exact premise called Wisdom of the Crowd) it turns out crowds can be pretty dumb.
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I'm still betting on the other one because they're a company, rather than some experimental crowdsourcing venture, but still, anyone trying to pull off Hyperloop in the real world should be encouraged for now. 5.
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"Crowdsourcing art by conducting competitions is a problematic approach due to the multiple losers (since everyone are competing over the same project) and the need for active involvement and initiative defining exact projects," said Kollnescher.
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Du worked in tech consulting for years, specializing in connecting major companies with crowdsourcing, and Braga started as a linguistics professor in Portugal and Spain, eventually working with Microsoft on NLP-related projects like Cortana.
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By crowdsourcing the exchange rates of financial institutions and laying it out nicely in a user-friendly manner, Malaysia CurrenSeek helps travelers locate the most convenient outlet to get the best bang for their buck.
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Unlike many crowdsourcing sites, which are platforms for people or businesses to raise money online from large groups of individuals, the exchange also allows the trading of those who list their "Valus" on the exchange.
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Gresta said that a full-scale city to city hyperloop could be a reality within five years, but said it will most likely not be in the U.S. HTT has an interesting crowdsourcing business model.
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I set up a fundraising page in Atlanta and raised $9,000 through crowdsourcing and a fundraiser concert, pledging to go to India on my own dime to donate the funds to those who needed it.
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As a startup that relies on crowdsourcing and volunteer engineers, the collaboration with Deutsche Bahn may allow HTT to start generating revenue while it works toward the larger goal of building passenger-ready hyperloop systems.
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The crowdsourcing approach has a certain appeal in Silicon Valley, where frustration about the inefficiency of government in California and nationally can sometimes boil over into a feeling that traditional bureaucracies can't do anything right.
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AOL Makers, which executive produced the track, announced today that it's crowdsourcing participation in the video, which will make its debut in May at the White House's The United State of Women summit in May.
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Facebook knows it can't come up with all the ideas to offset these issues and become more of a force for good in the world, so it's crowdsourcing them with the new Community Leadership grants.
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The library is asking anyone with a computer and an interest in historical documents to join a crowdsourcing project called By the People, in which volunteers will transcribe several thousand documents from the library's vaults.
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The Massacre That Wasn't showed that while Facebook, Google and Twitter take steps to combat nefarious hoaxes, they are already playing host to an organic correction movement led by ordinary users who are crowdsourcing reality.
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Where you take the raw knowledge, generated in the best way to generate it — which is from crowdsourcing — and then you package it in the best way to experience it for a given use case.
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Lukas Biewald, a co-founder and the C.E.O. of CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing company in San Francisco, sees Mr. Zuckerberg's efforts at self-betterment, maybe even including juggling, as emblematic of the tech industry as a whole.
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It was a valiant effort, but the first result of ZTE's crowdsourcing Project CSX is presently at just around $35,000 into its $500,000 goal after the project launched on January 4, at the height of CES.
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Its "Slavery from Space" project, which relies on crowdsourcing, involves online volunteers who sift through satellite images to identify possible hives of slavery, which can also help to improve artificial intelligence, the anti-slavery expert said.
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The network is working with with DigitalGlobe, a Colorado-based satellite company that offers the highest resolution satellite imagery commercially available—3703 to 50 centimeters per pixel—on a crowdsourcing campaign run by DigitalGlobe's Tomnod platform.
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"It's using crowdsourcing to create policy solutions," said Aditi Juneja, a third-year law student at New York University who developed the project along with Black Lives Matters activist DeRay McKesson and the group Stay Woke.
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Decker also reached out to Fulcrum, a data-collection app, and requested to use the company's Community initiative — free and open data-collecting crowdsourcing project specifically created for natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
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It has plans to install sensors at street level to see how hot and steamy life there gets, as well as use crowdsourcing to create real-time weather forecasts on heat impacts and risks to people.
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She made a personal appeal for Medicare-for-all by bringing up the story of Ady Barkan, a progressive activist with Lou Gehrig's disease who has had to rely on crowdsourcing to fund his medical care.
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HTT comes out of JumpStartFund, a crowdsourcing platform for early stage tech companies, and was developed as a project running on the work of volunteers who offer their in-kind services for equity in the company.
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The fund owes at least as much to crowdsourcing, then, as it does to harnessing AI. One hedge fund that does tout its machine-dependent model, despite naming itself after the human brain, is Cerebellum Capital.
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Image: GizmodoIn the grand tradition of crowdsourcing everything, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his personal page to ask the people a simple question: Who should be the voice of Jarvis, the home assistant he's currently developing?
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In yet another crowdsourcing effort, NASA is asking members of the public to help with the design of the Astrobee — a free-flying robot the space agency is making to live aboard the International Space Station.
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This year alone, the beauty world has welcomed at least three other products either named or formulated with the help of crowdsourcing: Charlotte Tilbury's Between the Sheets and Kiss Chase lipsticks, and Glossier's Milky Jelly Cleanser.
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Modern data platforms and the intelligent machines they feed, along with democratizing forms of technology, such as crowdsourcing and blockchain, suggest a future better able to predict and respond to both tail risks and tale risks.
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As of press time, a global GoFundMe search yielded 19,281 results for people seeking money to help pay for diabetes-related care, with 1,365,758 results for others crowdsourcing to raise money to help cover medical costs.
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Last year at the American Astronomical Society meeting, it was announced that citizen scientists helped discover five planets between the size of Earth and Neptune around star K2-138, the first multiplanet system found through crowdsourcing.
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Neumann&aposs personal tech investments, in addition to SkyTran, include a mobile app that lets users tune into the sound from nearby televisions, a medical-marijuana company, and an online forum for crowdsourcing home-improvement projects.
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People from around the globe took to social media to support the victims of the tragedy, whether donating to crowdsourcing campaigns for victims, retweeting photos of missing persons, or just simple tweets of condolence — celebrities included.
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Then he had another group of Americans, hired through the crowdsourcing website Amazon Mechanical Turk, use a point scale to rate the supposed bias of the articles found on the first page of the search results.
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In line with the mission of this project to reveal the hidden aspects of tech, we'll be extra transparent with our own crowdsourcing by explaining where your responses go and what we're doing with the information.
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The program has pulled more than 14 million images from across the web, which have been categorized by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers — a crowdsourcing platform through which people can earn money performing small tasks for third parties.
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He was living in Utah, where he had grown up in a Mormon family, and had returned after stepping away from his first Silicon Valley startup, a crowdsourcing site where users report and fact-check the news.
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From the diversity of their programming, to experimental off-site events, endearing crowdsourcing projects, and, of course, devotion to the legacy of synth pioneer Bob Moog, the event remains central to the beating heart of electronic music.
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The traffic app is best known for crowdsourcing in order to navigate people out of congestion, road hazards, or other slowdowns, and the automaker is adamant about better connecting drivers and cities to improve transportation for everyone.
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Musk has been in publicity mode over the last week, actively using his Twitter account to support Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, DM with journalists, and crowdsourcing suggestions on how to amend Trump's "unlawful" immigration ban.
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The East African nation of 44 million has become the continent's unofficial tech capital, dubbed "Silicon Savannah" for its advances in digital finance, tech incubators and local IT innovations such as BRCK and the Ushahidi crowdsourcing platform.
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The business was formed following a merger between JD Daojia, JD's platform for order from supermarkets online which has 20 million monthly users, and Dada, which uses crowdsourcing to fulfill deliveries and counts 10 million daily deliveries.
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Rahim assisted fellow USC classmate Sam Mazumdar with Y Athletics, which raised more than $600,220 from the crowdsourcing site to develop "odor-resistant" sports attire that used silver within the fabric to repel the smell of sweat.
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Lee Mayer discovered the benefits of crowdsourcing after she had moved to a new home in Denver from New York City and struggled for three months to find an interior decorator who would work within her budget.
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Oh, and let's not forget Moovit, an Israeli application crowdsourcing public transit that raised $218 million from BMW, Sequoia and Nokia, at a $226 million valuation, and recently launched its own ridesharing service called Carpool in Israel.
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The financially challenged Pakistani state is running a crowdsourcing-style campaign in a last-ditch effort to secure $214 billion to build two dams, which officials say will solve the country's endemic shortages of water and electricity.
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The researcher then had another group of Americans, hired through the crowdsourcing website Amazon Mechanical Turk, use a point scale to rate the supposed bias of the articles found on the first page of the search results.
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Old Weather, a crowdsourcing project, has enlisted the help of thousands of volunteers to transcribe entries from 20th-century ship logbooks (some written by hand) to help scientists compile historical climate data to feed into their models.
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The group, which is being announced on Thursday, plans to use the internet-era tools of global communication and crowdsourcing to solicit and help select promising candidates in a variety of fields, along with evaluations by experts.
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Organized via a combination of crowdsourcing and gatekeeping by the artist/curators Mira Dayal and Simon Wu, the show originated in the dicey proposition that art-making can be reduced to a set of formulas without becoming formulaic.
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With a colleague, Christoph Burger, he has written of the "big beyond" in which domestic energy autonomy, the use of the blockchain in energy contracts, and crowdsourcing of PV installations and other technological disruptions doom the traditional utility.
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Both Tile's app and Apple's new Find My app on macOS use the power of crowdsourcing to locate a misplaced product by letting its Bluetooth connection ping other people's devices, which relay that info back to the cloud.
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We do know that fan favorites Jade and Pey'j are returning for the prequel, and the developer also showed off a bit of the actual gameplay and revealed a curious new crowdsourcing plan for generating music and art.
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The museum can only display 5% of its collection at a time, so "Send Me SFMOMA" was really more about "bringing to light the work in the collection that was largely hidden" than crowdsourcing a list of terms.
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A crowdsourcing platform should relieve you of the burden of convening the crowd, parceling out their tasks and assigning work efficiently, but if it makes the workers invisible, you can't solicit additional insights that create value for you.
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The added burden of having independent auditors scrub through tax returns and delivering meticulously drafted offering statements can easily offset the benefits of crowdsourcing a maximum of $1 million — a sum that is scarcely enough for ambitious startups.
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And to help keep their customer ratings high through more efficient trips, Lyft says that Waze, which uses crowdsourcing data to reduce traffic and improve routing, will now be the default navigation tool for all of its drivers.
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Down the line, Hetherington said that eeGeo wants to expand its mapping data by way of crowdsourcing, where the apps that integrate its tech also become vehicles to ingest more information to improve accuracy, especially for indoor maps.
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Retail-focused AI applications can help determine your product preferences by looking not only at your past purchase behaviors, but those of others like you, to generate recommendations based effectively on a form of behind-the-scenes crowdsourcing.
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"The Keeper" is its own cultural crowdsourcing, including Korbinian Aigner's postcard-size still lifes of fruit, painted by Mr. Aigner, a German Catholic priest, while interred in the Dachau concentration camp, where he cultivated apples until his escape.
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Creating bots or "artificial intelligences" without high-quality training data can lead to unintended consequences (see Microsoft's Tay), and the creation of this training data often relies on semi-manual processes like crowdsourcing or finding historical data sets.
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Mobileye today covers a range of technology and services, including sensor fusion, mapping, front- and rear-facing camera tech and, beginning in 2018, crowdsourcing data for high-definition maps, as well as driving policy intelligence underlying driving decisions.
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At the smaller end of the spectrum, this entails advances such as RICO, a kind of crowdsourcing crime app that enables users to earn cash by serving as anonymous links in the chains of planned heists and kidnappings.
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According to the EFF, the group is working on expanding the project to inventory police surveillance across the country, using crowdsourcing to collect news articles and public records, then aggregating these existing surveillance datasets for easy public access.
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The Brazilian app uses crowdsourcing to designate risky areas for gay and trans people by letting users mark locations where violent incidents occur, as well as police stations and safe spaces, like trans-friendly health clinics and charities.
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The Brazilian app uses crowdsourcing to designate risky areas for gay and trans people by letting users mark locations where violent incidents occur, as well as police stations and safe spaces, like trans-friendly health clinics and charities.
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The New York-based French Heritage Society and the Go Fund Me crowdsourcing platform were among the first to offer help for a cathedral that is a must-see destination for visitors to Paris from all over the world.
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That's a bit of an odd thing to say about a phone for which the company had launched an actual crowdsourcing campaign (we hope all backers get their money back), but at least we can appreciate the man's honesty.
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These days, a career making money via AdSense dollars alone is increasingly implausible, and now YouTubers often aim to transition into more traditional forms of entertainment, or supplement their incomes through merch, sponsored content, or crowdsourcing tools like Patreon.
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Peter Neubauer, co-founder of the crowdsourcing photo map service Mapillary, recently took a trip to the Faroe Islands with his son where they set out to map as much of the islands as they could in five days.
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The backstreets that Doh Eain has upgraded - eight so far, with funds coming from crowdsourcing and donations - are now attractions for tourists wanting to see the city beyond the glossy brochures and locals in search of perfect selfie spots.
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" However, Park added "for those who already have a medical diagnosis and are still seeking a second opinion through crowdsourcing, I do think it's potentially dangerous because you have no idea who's giving you this advice and their expertise.
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This Lego Cybertruck is one even Elon can love While Lego's take on the Tesla Cybertruck design seemed to be purely for the LOLs, a remarkably faithful representation has been submitted to the official Lego Ideas crowdsourcing website. 7.
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Crowdsourcing live traffic data has been one of Waze's key competitive advantages in navigation software for a while, but Germany's HERE might give it a run for its money with new services that pull traffic info from cars on the road.
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He also uses the medium to engage one-on-one with fans, crowdsourcing some of life's most important questions, like the query he posed to his followers on Sunday night: Is it possible to wear makeup without immediately breaking out?
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Inspired by the same tech that underpins bitcoin, his creation joins a growing wave of what people in the world of crypto-finance call "digital tokens," internet-based assets that enable the crowdsourcing of everything from venture capital to computing power.
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Nine days after President Donald Trump's return to the White House from his controversial trip to Helsinki, protestors initially determined to keep the jet-lagged president from sleeping have channeled their outrage into financial power — crowdsourcing more than $100,000 since Friday.
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Waze's excellent crowdsourcing features let me know when there's unexpected construction, police, traffic stops, when I should skip one freeway entrance for another due to gridlock, and when I should get off the freeway sooner to cut time off my drive.
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In December, the NSW government announced it would push service station operators to disclose their prices in real-time, but Moulis said while such information could be useful, crowdsourcing would remain a faster and more responsive method of collecting price data.
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"Posting preprints would allow scientific crowdsourcing to increase the number of errors that are caught, since traditional peer-reviewers cannot be expected to be experts in every sub-discipline," writes Scott Hartman, a paleobiology PhD student at the University of Wisconsin.
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A team of people, via crowdsourcing, was used to train its machine-learning system by collecting and labelling the emotions in 100,000 images a day, "quickly converting human intelligence into artificial intelligence", Emotient said in a press release last May.
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Gig workers on this kind of crowdsourcing platform can earn as little as $1 per hour for "micro-tasks" as part of a model called "human-in-the-loop" designed to have humans fill in on tasks where computers typically fail.
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Theories surrounding the star system KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, ranged from comets to an "alien megastructure" after the online astronomy crowdsourcing site Planet Hunter discovered an unusual light fluctuation in the star system a few years ago.
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It was staged by Betabrand, a San Francisco company that builds its clothing catalog by crowdsourcing design ideas and, after seeing which take off, crowdfunding the production of their prototypes to see which ones people will actually want to buy.
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The crowdsourcing element will entail wiki users either being able to report badly sounding sentences, or to correct the sentences themselves — although that will require some linguistic knowledge as it will involve using a phonetic transcription to correct the dictionary.
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Detectify co-founder and CEO Rickard Carlsson tells me the company has made a lot of progress in the past 12 months, including building out the crowdsourcing part of its proposition in order to grow the number of known vulnerabilities.
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By allowing a relative degree of anonymity for those who are writing annotations and making it extremely easy to annotate any website on the internet, Genius has combined the concept of annotations with the concept of crowdsourcing in a fundamental way.
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"We were impressed by all of the finalists' pitches today and are excited to be crowdsourcing creative thinking from the entrepreneurial and data science communities," Jeff Miller, NFL executive vice president of health and safety innovation said in a statement.
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" Through a crowdsourcing campaign, Crowley collected more than sixty thousand dollars, much of it after the conservative radio commentator Alex Jones had Crowley and Danny Mason on his radio show "Infowars," in 220, to discuss "the impressive film you're working on.
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Wattpad, the online storytelling community that's home to some 80 million monthly users, has successfully tapped into the power of crowdsourcing to help uncover the next potential hits for media companies, including Netflix, Hulu, NBCU, Sony Pictures Television and others worldwide.
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MELBOURNE, Feb 25 (Reuters) - South Australia is putting A$250,000 ($166,000) up for grabs in a crowdsourcing competition to uncover more mineral reserves, as the industry taps expertise from a wide array of disciplines to find new large mineral lodes.
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A unique aspect of the TESS project is that it invites regular people to volunteer to watch the online transmission for patterns in star brightness that might suggest the existence of a new planet, a sort of crowdsourcing of the universe.
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In an unusual crowdsourcing campaign, more than 22,21.5 students, philanthropists, sailors, businesspeople and others raised 1003 million Canadian dollars, or $2100 million in American currency, that the British Columbia Parks Foundation needed to buy nearly 2000,2100 acres in Princess Louisa Inlet.
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The students envision a crowdsourcing initiative in which phone users around the world send in sound samples of mosquitoes landing on them, which could be sorted by the embedded GPS and time coordinates to build a worldwide mosquito distribution map.
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) and the intelligence community (IC) have been using the technique for decades: In 2016, acting director of the GSA Technology Transformation Service's Innovation Portfolio Kelly Olson emphasized the need for continued crowdsourcing in government.
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Crowdsource your logo There are a number of logo crowdsourcing sites where you can not only get several dozen or even hundreds of idea submissions, but also you can easily share the prospective logo with your own social network for feedback.
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The State Department's estimate was compiled using "crowdsourcing intelligence, intelligence reports from groups that have been publishing the death toll," and "more videos and more information" leaking from the country as the government continues to restore internet access, Hook said.
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Scientists with Seed Health, a microbial health company, are crowdsourcing a dookie database with the ultimate goal of using pictures of human waste to train an artificial intelligence platform launched out of MIT to recognize the difference between healthy and unhealthy poop.
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Instead, I'm told that "co-creation" is very much the mantra here and that there will be a crowdsourcing component to solicit the kind of things that innovators should focus on, which will in turn help determine which entries should be rewarded.
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Last week, Google announced that it was crowdsourcing suggestions for the name of its next-generation Android N. Taking inspiration, numerous Indians, many of them from the southern state of Kerala, are campaigning to get the OS named after a local sweet, Neyyappam.
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In fact he's taken to Twitter to encourage New Zealanders to "embrace" the old design and "be proud of it":The new—and unsuccessful—design, known as the Silver FernThe quest to find a new flag began with the country crowdsourcing new designs.
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By combining thousands of data points as vessels traverse the fishing grounds, these "wikimaps"—created and updated through crowdsourcing—show gravel beds where bottom-dwelling halibut are likely to linger, craggy terrain where rockfish tend to lurk, and outcrops that could snag gear.
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By crowdsourcing for solutions using machine learning to utilize the abundant data available across these five industries, we can find relevant signals and patterns among the noise and make these industries not only more efficient, but also more integral to improving our lives.
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Mr. Bieber's "Sorry" acknowledges crowdsourcing in a different way: It is a dance video, featuring a host of young female performers, and recalls how, on Vine or Instagram or Snapchat, young people everywhere make themselves the stars of their own dance videos.
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London-based BeMyEye, one of a number of 'mobile crowdsourcing' apps that lets companies pay to have people carry out mobile tasks, such as photographing in-store promotions to ensure that are actually happening, has raised €6.5 million in Series B funding.
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In 2012, it acquired a majority stake in the Boulder, Colorado-based Victors & Spoils, an agency that foresaw an end to long-term agency of record contracts and used a then controversial crowdsourcing process to develop projects while minimizing costs to clients.
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OurBus, which started in May 2016 with a route from Kendall Park, N.J., near Princeton, to Midtown, is one of a handful of tech companies aiming to ease commuter stress by crowdsourcing rides and then developing apps that offer the routes in demand.
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In-dash navigation systems will be getting smarter, not just learning your preferences and using data connections for timely updates, but crowdsourcing sensor information from connected vehicles to assess traffic problems and road conditions — even guiding you around a newly formed pothole.
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After crowdsourcing a design competition on his website for the first apartment, Mr. Hill spent $365,000 turning the 420-square-foot space into what he called LE1, a multifunctional apartment that can accommodate two guests and seat up to 12 for dinner.
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Larry Brilliant, the acting chairman of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, a philanthropy created by Jeff Skoll, one of eBay's founders, said that crowdsourcing philanthropic ideas had had mixed success in large part because of the challenge of identifying ones that have promise.
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It's Google's way of crowdsourcing data from its users, so you may not want to do this if you don't want your reviews and photos to be public, but it can be really helpful for other users, which is why I like it.
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Like other libraries and institutions crowdsourcing transcription on whaling logbooks, undelivered letters from the 17th century, sci-fi fanzines, and reference cards for Bronze Age objects, the goal is to create a globally available resource for something that was previously difficult to access.
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Its findings came from a rigorous dive into the public online catalogues of these museums, deploying a sample of 10,000 artist records comprising over 9,153 unique artists to crowdsourcing, and analyzing 45,000 responses, to infer artist genders, ethnicities, geographic origins, and birth decades.
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But the consortium is also doing some crowdsourcing, having already collected $2.5 million out of the $6 million required for the first phase of the project (the first phase will involve the sequencing of at least one individual from all 260 orders of living vertebrates).
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In a paper published in this month's PS: Political Science & Politics, Williamson calls for academics to examine the way that MTurk and other crowdsourcing data collection methods are used, and to push for academic journals to only allow for ethically-sourced data to be published.
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A crowdsourcing platform that doesn't flexibly create incentives for people to meet demand is unlikely to command the loyalty of the best workers, and headline numbers of workers at your disposal (1,000,000!) are meaningless if the task requires skill and the incentives are not effective.
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The unconventional Hyperloop startup was born out of a crowdsourcing platform, and uses crowdsourced workers to run, and thus far most of its work seems to have been on building hype rather than building things, so some skepticism around its output is only natural.
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"In April 2019 there was a huge fuel crisis in Portugal, so we set up the website and we had a form going around crowdsourcing information about where people could still get gas and where they couldn't," says Jorge Gomes, VOST Portugal's co-founder.
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The CEO of ZTE USA, Lixin Cheng, said in a press statement that the company would be "crowdsourcing something entirely new, from start to finish," but that doesn't mean, of course, that it won't pick and choose that suggestions that best suit its current plans.
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Houston Texas defensive end star J.J. Watt, who has been consistently updating his Twitter account with the new amount donations for his online crowdsourcing campaign, tweeted on Thursday that he had reached the $22017 million mark — a significant increase from his initial $2500,2000 mark.
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Other options for collecting and confirming the extent and location of coverage — such as crowdsourcing, collaborating with the private sector to enhance data reporting, and state verification — could be useful in providing more accurate maps with current, validated data in a cost-effective way.
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We played a heaping pile of the submissions to the GBJAM, and found that the following are worth checking out: With its fifth successful run, the GBJAM is currently crowdsourcing funds to launch their own platform to host all these mock-Game Boy games.
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With the likeness of a sixteen-year-old girl from Sapporo, Japan and a futuristic voice, Hatsune Miku's crowdsourcing software allows users to create music by uploading lyrics and melodies, which has amounted to over 100,000 user-released songs and over a million derivative artworks.
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Capitalizing on the rise of the internet and its attendant opportunity for "crowdsourcing," Doritos launched its "Crash the Super Bowl" campaign in 29, inviting snackers to enter their own ads in a contest whose prize was money, exposure, and a trip to the game.
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In their search for a replacement for Joe Girardi, whose contract as manager was not renewed after last season, the Yankees are not only making little effort to hide candidates but also crowdsourcing the vetting process by parading them in front of the news media.
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I will add my voice to the crowdsourcing and propose an option: Mr. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, should give his money to the more than 700 community foundations across our country, and urge others to give to their community foundations.
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And since many in the storm-ravaged islands are without reliable cell service, and with little information from authorities, their loved ones have turned to crowdsourcing and social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp to look for them, share news, coordinate rescues and find community.
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Not only did NASA confirm that it has spotted seven exoplanets that have Earth-like qualities orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but the makers of the popular massively multiplayer game EVE Online have announced a crowdsourcing effort to get players to identify exoplanets while they explore virtual space.
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The approach also reinforces the notion that Facebook is much more comfortable trying to engineer a moral compass (via crowdsourcing views and thus offloading responsibility for potentially controversial positions onto its users) than operating with any innate sense of ethics and/or civic mission of its own.
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Facebook and Google are clamping down on the spread of fake news in the wake of the US presidential election, but now a website that publishes stories appealing to "alt right" white nationalism appears to be crowdsourcing "reporters" from online marketplaces to write content of questionable veracity.
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New companies are being created to exploit new technologies to become world leaders: Look for key developments and new applications in technologies relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, UAVs (drones), cybersecurity, crowdsourcing, data analytics and visualization, computational imaging and recognition, virtual reality and software-defined processes.
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Photo: Patrick Semansky (AP)Amazon is ending its policy of letting viewers vote on which TV pilot episodes they would like to become full-length series, announcing at the Television Critics Association's press tour on Saturday that it was ending the crowdsourcing portion of its original content program.
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GoFundMe will refund more than $20 million in donations made by hundreds of thousands of people to an online effort to build President Trump's border wall with Mexico, after the Iraq War veteran behind the crowdsourcing effort suddenly changed his plans Friday on what to do with the funds.
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San Diego-based Emotient was founded in 2012 and has already been awarded patents covering how it uses crowdsourcing to "train" its machine-learning technology for sentiment analysis and — crucially for the privacy-conscious Apple — a way to understand facial expressions without storing recognisable images of individuals' faces.
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Tovala chefs Forrest Mason and Cecilia Garza are expanding their initial batch of recipes for the meal kit launch in December, but once live, users will be able to share their own recipes within the app, and through some crafty crowdsourcing, if they're good enough and get voted up.
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Crowdsourcing conservation At the beginning of the month, around 120 teams of scientists, amateur scientists, schoolchildren and even the U.S. ambassador to Kenya were given GPS-enabled cameras, and they fanned out across 25 square kilometers of rangeland to photograph every Grevy's zebra they saw for two days.
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Instead, over the next few years, Amazon wants to add as much capacity to its operations as possible, and rather than replace partners like UPS and FedEx, it is spending boatloads on planes, trucks, crowdsourcing and other novel delivery services to add to its overall capacity and efficiency.
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"People are trying to navigate this collective challenge by reimagining what fun is while being clear about the serious nature of this," said Tracy Sturdivant, 43, who runs a social impact firm in Brooklyn and spent much of last week crowdsourcing safe things to do with her family.
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The silencing effect With the release of the "Troll Patrol India" report, conducted using a combination of crowdsourcing and machine learning, Amnesty has attempted to shed light on how harassment and abuse might deter female politicians from freely posting their views on the platform, or even contesting elections altogether.
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Earlier this decade, the different institutions that house documents from the genizah, or storeroom, of the Ben Ezra synagogue in Cairo (and from other sources in the city) launched a crowdsourcing effort just to sort and initially transcribe some of the material before it can be fully inventoried.
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In 2016, Parcak won the TED Prize, a grant of a million dollars; she used it to launch a project called GlobalXplorer, a crowdsourcing platform, by which citizen Indiana Joneses can scrutinize satellite maps and identify potential new sites, adding these to a database without publicly revealing the coördinates.
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Nearby a flyer advertises Metal Mondays, a vinyl night running from 10 PM to 2 AM. The DJs were crowdsourcing their set on Facebook: "Feel free to bring your Morbid Angel/Cannibal Corpse/Necrot/Blood Incantation records," celebrating the death-metal titans and upstarts' first stop on the Decibel Tour.
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Reviews of last month's fight were mixed, but it's fair to write off the battle as something of a dry run for what the company is trying to put together, and MegaBots is hoping to make the experience more engaging by crowdsourcing some of the decision-making with its backers.
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It's a demo for what Hanks and his co-conspirator Tom Stenton (a scowling Patton Oswalt) really want to demonstrate: how their new line of GoPro-style cameras and a worldwide network of participatory voyeurs could make sure politicians are permanently on the record and quickly hunt down fugitives via crowdsourcing.
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Initially, a collaboration between General Electric and Local Motors (a Phoenix-based manufacturer of 3D-printed cars), FirstBuild takes the principles of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding that the company toyed with as a partner and investor in the once-mighty startup Quirky, and uses them to develop prototypes of new household appliances.
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She is a daughter of Merdith V. Rowe of Jamaica, Queens, and Carlton O. Baker of Brunswick, Md. The groom, 30, is the owner of JMA Consulting, a company that provides crowdsourcing and research for colleges and universities, in Lyman, S.C. He graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina.
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And with the ease of homestays, improving transport links within emerging countries and crowdsourcing travel tips via the internet, there is absolutely no need to spend your travels listening to a man talk dully over a bus microphone, experiencing nothing in the way of local culture but rest-stop toilets.
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As late as 2012, even as the vast platforms that now control the internet had assumed their current shapes, the bestselling author Steven Johnson argued the glass was half full in his book Future Perfect — that "peer progressives," enlightened digital natives, would end entrenched social and political problems through crowdsourcing.
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"By crowdsourcing research, we were able to build up vital evidence in a fraction of the time it would take one Amnesty researcher, without losing the human judgment which is so essential when looking at context around tweets," Milena Marin, Senior Advisor for Tactical Research at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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Alphabet, Apple and Uber may be spending billions on exhaustive new mapping technologies to power the self-driving car revolution, but there's a new generation of companies betting that a combination of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence will enable them to navigate their way to success in the wild world of international geographics.
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Mapillary, a Swedish startup backed by Sequoia, Atomico and others that has built a database of 130 million images through crowdsourcing — think open-source Street View — is releasing a free dataset of 25,000 street-level images from 190 countries, with pixel-level annotations that can be used to train automotive AI systems.
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The data in the app is in part crowdsourced, and in part obtained from existing sources of data, providing a comprehensive crime map using geo-fencing technology that combines crime data from federal, state and local enforcement agencies, news outlets and real-time crowdsourcing, as well as more than 1,400 data sources.
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Drug companies have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into at-home-DNA-test companies worldwide, banking on all that genetic data, linked to vast crowdsourcing on individuals' physical and psychological disorders, to slash the time and cost of developing new treatments and drugs, including ones tailored to an individual's unique genetic makeup.
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As comfortable manipulating moods with Facebook as she is crowdsourcing her OKCupid dates, New-York based artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy recently leveled-up her social experimentation with Follower, a performance art piece that deeply probes notions of privacy, surveillance culture, and being followed, and is also conspicuously inspired by human-on-demand services.
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In its second foray into scientific crowdsourcing, the popular online multiplayer game EVE Online is collaborating with Massively Multiplayer Online Science, Reykjavik University, the University of Geneva and professor Michel Mayor to bring real-world astronomical data to EVE and task players with classifying the data to help refine the search for more exoplanets.
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At the same time, they've moved to this crowdsourcing of terrorism where just like they tried to exploit aviation, now they are exploiting another Western‑made technology that's used mainly for totally innocent or commercial or good purposes and use it against us to try to turn humans into weapons, to target our young.
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Since then, it has grown to become the world's largest fundraising platform, and it and other crowdsourcing platforms have come to serve as the country's ad-hoc safety net of sorts, exposing all the ways in which our country's actual safety net—health care, welfare benefits, rent assistance—fails miserably to fulfill people's basic needs.
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Don't neglect the networking aspects of Facebook either—hit up contacts you know working in the industry you want to get into and don't be afraid to throw up a speculative request asking if anyone knows of any opportunities, because your network of friends and relatives might be better at crowdsourcing some leads than you might think.
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Unlike those shows, the ace up Wisdom of the Crowd's sleeve may end up being the crowdsourcing angle, because as a recent wave of super popular true crime offerings — Serial, Making a Murderer, The Jinx, S-Town, The Keepers — have shown, there's something undeniably rewarding about watching everyday Americans committed to the pursuit of justice. —J.
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In his 2012 paper "Black Friday: Crowdsourcing Communities of Risk," he particularly objects to the reporting on the deadly 2008 stampede at the Green Acres Shopping Plaza Walmart in Valley Stream, New York, arguing that coverage of the incident invoked some of the same stereotypes of African Americans as coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots did.
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On a practical level this translates into real-time access to inventory levels in-store and online at one end; through merchandising content via cross-sell suggestions and styling ideas (powered by crowdsourcing); digital marketing content; all the way up to customer profiles and preferences, pulling on personal data to better inform and steer the in store shopping experience.
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While Swiftkey has encouraged users to report offensive recommendations, crowdsourcing still opens the possibility for insensitive or confusing suggestions as TechCrunch notes in its review: While typing the word 'feminists' included the crying tears of laugher face, the sleeping face, the unimpressed face, the rolling eyes face, the hmm/thinking emoji and the medical mask face among the predictions.
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But by crowdsourcing data from inexpensive air quality monitors in people's homes and businesses, the company's online map has quickly become an essential if unlikely source of information in a region choked by smoke — and a case in point for the tech community's larger frustrations with what many see as mismanagement by California's government and national gridlock.
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Unlike previous scientific efforts to build scenarios for future change, which typically rely on structures organized from the top down, we're building these global pathways from the bottom up, by crowdsourcing a rich data base of "bright spots," real places that demonstrate one or more elements of a positive future that might serve as seeds of a good Anthropocene.
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Crowdsourcing data on which FOI exemptions are most common will also help Muckrock identify problem areas—if certain states are inappropriately claiming that certain records are part of "internal deliberations" (a common FOI exemption in many states) when they shouldn't be, there may be grounds for a lawsuit or a public shaming campaign that could help change things.
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The brewery's history of tone-deaf marketing spans from the homophobic (serving a beer called "Adam and Steve's Friends of Dorothy Fabulously Fruity Super Gay Beer" and offering to pour it in an "extra gay fancy glass with an umbrella") to the tasteless (crowdsourcing hookup stories via his email newsletter from his previous brewery, named Wet N' Reckless).
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But during recent years, residents have watched government officials funnel billions toward the Olympics, the World Cup and projects like Santiago Calatrava's Museum of Tomorrow, ignoring public services and bedrock institutions like the National Museum, whose cash-starved curators, even before the fire, became so desperate that they took to crowdsourcing funds to repair tattered displays.
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Directly — which has built a platform to help train companies' chatbots by crowdsourcing experts and analysing chatbot usage to better "teach" the AI systems underpinning them — has raised $20 million in funding led by Samsung NEXT (Samsung's VC arm), with participation also from Industry Ventures, AvidBank and existing investors M12 (Microsoft's VC), Costanoa Ventures, True Ventures and Northgate.
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The Light Phone 2 has 4G LTE connectivity and, since it's not yet finalized but is instead kicking off its Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign, could add features including directions, ride-sharing specific apps, playlists, weather reports, and voice commands according to the company's founders, on top of the basic call, messaging, contact book, alarm and auto-reply features that are definitely going in.
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