Already the third iteration of our tech watch newsletter. From the Big Bang of Github been acquired by Microsoft to the open-source initiative to create speech recognition models by Mozilla, with a lot of GDPR on top of it, here’s our selection of articles, news and new things that we curated for you.

Innovation • /ˌɪnəˈveɪʃən/

Borrowed from Middle French innovation, from Old French innovacion, from Late Latin innovatio, innovationem, from Latin innovo, innovatus. Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.

[🇫🇷 Microsoft Veut Concurrencer Amazon En Éliminant Les Caisses Des Supermarchés

Microsoft veut aider les commerces à concurrencer Amazon Go, un nouveau concept qui facilite la corvée des courses en éliminant le passage aux caisses.

C’est une vraie course à l’armement sur le sujet retail et cette annonce fait suite à une pluie d’annonces comme celles de Monop et Carrefour qui ont déployé des assistants vocaux Google pour faire ses courses.

Le commerce de demain passera-t-il encore par l’humain ?

I played the first Alexa-enabled board game and it was a real trip

The AI-powered trivia game When in Rome shows that, despite a few kinks, Alexa can be a terrific board game host. It opens to new innovative ideas on how we could leverage vocal assistant for unanticipated use cases.

[🇫🇷 Des chercheurs ont imprimé en 3D une cornée à partir de cellules humaines

La synthèse additive ne cesse de s’améliorer et étendre ses domaines d’application. Entre le secteur du bâtiment, la sidérurgie et le domaine médical (notamment au niveau prothétique), la précision et la fiabilité ne cessent de s’améliorer. Sans doute un des enjeux majeurs de notre siècle.

Aquisition • /ˌakwɪˈzɪʃ(ə)n/

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquirere. The act or process of acquiring.

Microsoft has acquired GitHub

If you looked at the most active contributors on Github for the last months, it should not be a surprise for you. Microsoft became a giant open-source contributor on the platform and its acquisition is just a logical move when you invested so much time, effort and money in it.

Privacy • /ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/

The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.

How Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter have handled GDPR compliance

GDPR compliance is a tricky business. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Google have all had different approaches.

GDPR & E-commerce

An introduction to GDPR applied to e-commerce. The first part of a 2-part series of article dedicated to GDPR made at Smile Innovation.

[🇫🇷 Piratage des objets connectés : le MIT a trouvé une parade

Des chercheurs du MIT ont créé un émetteur qui fractionne et déplace les paquets de données entre les différentes fréquences radio à une vitesse de l’ordre de la microseconde. Difficile d’imaginer un déploiement à large échelle à court terme en raison de la complexité d’implantation mais le sujet de la sécurité de l’IoT est sérieux et réel.

Openness • /ˈəʊ.pən/ + /nəs/

Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one’s own.

Common Voice

The Common Voice project is Mozilla’s initiative to help teach machines how real people speak.

Fun • /fʌn/

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”. The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Lego’s connected Batmobile gives you two ways to play

Landing in August, Lego’s Powered Up Batmobile is the latest app connected set that makes STEM learning fun.

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