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According to a recent Lux Research report, the autonomous vehicle market will be worth up to $50 billion over the next 20 years. Only a few mobility technologies have the same disruptive potential as self-driving cars (AVs). As a result, the market landscape has shifted, with key players focusing on diverse and, at times, niche applications, business models, and geographies. We set out in this report to capture the complete picture of AV development and what it means for future AV sales and ado...

Dundalk man lands top tech job in Belfast Reporter: ); Dundalk man Jeremiah Wangaruro has landed a prestigious job with Belfast software company Sentireal. After studying at Dundalk Grammar School, Jeremiah went on to university in Dublin and graduated with an Honours Degree in Computer Science. He joined Sentireal in November as a Data Scientist - the first person to be employed in such a role for the company. The role is supported by InterTrade Irelands Co-Innovate Programme, and involves c...

Informationweek Commentary Ways Data Scientists Can Stand Out in the Virtual Hiring Process Searching for a job during a pandemic presents its own sets of challenges. Here are three tips on how to deliver an impactful interview. Image: Elnur - stock.adobe.com With many people out of work from COVID-19, the job market has become more competitive than ever. As companies begin to hire and make up for the employees they have lost, its crucial that applicants can highlight the ways they stand out fr...

Cambridge analytica, and a data scientist named alexander kogan. >> who created the tools and the apps that allowed cambridge analytica to receive a large amount of facebook user data. >> reporter: alexander kogan delivered the data to cambridge analytica and now cnn has learned he may have perhaps unwittingly allowed access to that same facebook data to russian actors. kogan began working four years ago on a joint project at russias st. petersburg university sponsored by the russian government....

They took that data or what they did with it but that link has been established so clearly it will be really important to understand exactly what the level of access was of people in russia to this facebook data and what they did with it. >> reporter: damian collins is with the conservative party in britain who is looking at russian meddling in 2016. it has focused largely on controversial facebook user data. the data analytics firm of cambridge analytica and a data scientist named alexander kog...

People in russia to this facebook data and what they did with it. >> reporter: damian collins is a british member of parliament for the conservative party, whose committee is running an almost identical investigation as his u.s. counterparts looking at russian meddling in the 2016 brexit referendum. it has focused largely on controversial facebook user data. the data analytics firm of cambridge analytica, and a data scientist named alexander kogan. >> who created the tools and the apps that allo...

Accessed by russia. we dont yet know who they were, what they accessed, whether they took that data or what they did with it, but that link was established with the investigation. clearly it would be really important to understand exactly what the level of access was for people in russia to the facebook data and what they did with it. >> damien collins is a member of parliament for the conservative party whose committee is running almost an identical investigation looking at russian meddling in ...

Punctuation where a clear question will end with a period or exclamation point instead of a question mark, that -- those are elements of the staff, so those are not clear tells. the spelling is the clearest tell. >> reporter: dave robinson is a data scientist and a reporter with the atlantic magazine. hes developed a twitterbot called trump or not that somehow tells the likelihood of whether trump wrote a tweet himself. >> hes more likely to use language like crazy, badly, loser. his angry tweet...

Are elements of the staff, so those are not clear tells. the spelling is the clearest tell. >> reporter: dave robinson is a data scientist and a reporter with the atlantic magazine. hes developed a twitterbot called trump or not that somehow estimates the likelihood of whether or not trump wrote a tweet himself. >> hes more likely to use language like crazy, badly, loser. his crazy early morning tweetstorms, the angry tweets, they show the real signatures of being from trump. >> this somewhat bl...

Them up the users, but we keep the data to our self. its a fine line there. i have a question. zuckerberg is there talking about moving forward, you know, new chapter, all this stuff. ive got a question for him, which is the whistle-blower in this case, the guy who came forward, kind of exposed this all to us and to our partner at the observer was a guy named christopher wylie, a young data scientist for did help harvest this data for cambridge analytica. his reward for coming forward, going out...