Facebook and Google already operate both facial recognition to optimize their services. If in technology, such systems are making real progress, they also raise questions about privacy. For example, Facebook uses facial recognition Moments on his application to rearrange photos of users. But as European regulators seem not quite agree with the use of this technology (or at least with the way it is used by Facebook), Moments is currently not available in Europe.
But Facebook already looking for a way to identify someone on a photo without relying on facial details, eg back or with hidden face. This is what is revealed by the site New Scientist reports that the algo that is being experienced by Facebook recognizes a person in a photo with information other than the facial features, such as clothing, hairstyle body, etc. . Mark Zuckerberg, it is for example easy to recognize thanks to his gray T-shirt, explains Yann LeCun, a Facebook employee in charge of artificial intelligence.
Facebook The researchers collected 40,000 photographs of public Flickr photo sharing service for testing and in 83% of cases, the algorithm would have successfully identified the people on them.
For now, this is an experimental technology. But we imagine how Facebook could improve its app Moments through it. After the possibility of being identified by an artificial intelligence even when it is back or when voluntarily hides his face will not necessarily welcomed by all.

The different editions of Windows 10 revealed. Windows Pro 10, Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise ... Microsoft Windows 10 presented different versions of its future OS, and their characteristics.

Microsoft has just lifted the veil on the different editions of Windows Future 10. They are available according to the public (professional and consumer) and terminal types:

Windows 10 Home will be adapted to PCs, tablets and large hybrid terminals marketed to the general public.

Windows 10 Mobile is a cut editing, it, for terminals 8 inches and under (smartphones and small tablets). It will be delivered with the Office version optimized for touch screens, and integrate the mode known as Continuum (for connecting the terminal on a larger display for use as a PC).
Windows 10 Pro is equivalent to Windows 10 Home edition but with additional features for SMEs (fleet management, data protection, better integration with cloud ...). It is cut for BYOD (use of personal devices for work).

Windows 10 Enterprise integrates security features and more advanced fleet management that Windows 10 Pro, designed to meet the big business issues. Microsoft Customers with Software Assurance may migrate to it without additional cost.

Windows 10 Education is designed for the education sector (with a volume licensing offer).
Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise is designed terminals 8 inches and less targeting companies (also with access to a volume licensing offer).

Windows 10 and Windows 10 Pro Enterprise allows both to benefit from the update service Windows Update for Business that has unveiled Microsoft to better meet businesses compatibility issues. Furthermore, the publisher announced a version of Windows 10 to the industry, as well as for editing and low cost terminals connected objects: Windows 10 IoT Core. Finally, Microsoft for the occasion recalls that migration to Windows 10 is free for Windows license holders 7, Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1 (read the details on the official blog of Windows, English). An offer which, remember, is not about business.

FIFO Method of Treating Initial Work in Process Inventory ; Units Lost at End of Process. In the process of verifying the pricing of the company's inventory of work in process and finished goods recorded on the company's books, the auditor finds
:
Finished goods inventory, 1 10,000 units                       $504,900
Work in process inventory, 90,000 units, 50% completed  330,480

The company follows the practice of pricing the above inventories at the lower of cost or market on a first-in, first-out method. Materials are added to the production line at the start of the process, and overhead is applied to the product at the rate of 75% based on direct labor dollars. The auditor also learns that the market value of the finished goods inventory and the work in process inventory is greater than the amounts shown above, with the exception of the defective units in the ending inventory of finished goods, the market value of which amounts to $1.00 per unit. The difference between the market value and the assigned cost is expensed. 

A review of the company's cost record shows :
Amounts
                                                                               Units      Materials    Labor
Opening inventory, January 1, 19—, 80% completed. 100,000   $100,000   $160,000
Additional units started in 19—                                 500,000
Materials costs incurred                                                           550,000
Labor costs incurred                                                                               997,500
Amounts
                                                                               Units      Materials    Labor
Units completed in 19—:
Good units                                                           500,000
Defective units                                                       10,000

Finished goods inventory at December 31, 19—, includes 10,000 defective units.
Defective units occur at the end of the process; i.e., units are found to be defective at the point of final inspection.

Required: (1) Schedules indicating:
(a) Effective or equivalent production.
(b) Unit costs of materials, labor, and factory overhead of current period production.
(c) Costing of inventories of finished goods, defective units, and work in process.
(2) The necessary journal entry(ies), if any, to state correctly inventory of finished goods and work in process.

Cost Assigned to Work in Process Inventory. The manager of a company whose manufacturing process lends itself quite readily to process costing methods approached the accountant with the request to compute, for his study and consideration, the work in process inventory on (a) the average cost basis and (b) the first-in, first-out basis. The following data are available
:
Units in opening inventory, 8,000; all materials, 50% labor and overhead.
Cost of opening inventory: Materials, $3,984; Labor, $2,148; Overhead, $1,692.
Placed in process, 40,000 units. Cost: Materials, $24,000; Labor, $19,968; Overhead, $19,968.
 

Units completed and transferred, 42,000.
Units in process at the end, 6,000; all materials, 60% labor and overhead.

Required: The costs assigned to the work in process inventory.

5. Cost of Production Report with Materials Added. The Caldwell Company produces a chemical, Caldmetral, which requires processing in three departments. In the third department materials are added, doubling the number of units. The following data pertain to the operations of Department 3 for March:
Units received from Department 2             20,000
Units transferred to finished storeroom       32,000
The balance of the units were still in 

process—100% complete as to material, 

50% complete as to labor and overhead.
Cost transferred from Department 2         $30,000
Cost added by the department:
Materials                 $8,800
Labor                        9,000
Factory overhead       7,200                      $25,000

Required: A cost of production report for Department 3 for March.

57. Skill-based pay compensates employees for the specific jobs they are performing in the organization.


ANS: F

Skill-based pay compensates employees for the skills they can use in the organization, rather than for the specific jobs they are performing.


58. More than 16 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies use skill-based pay programs to motivate employees.


ANS: T


59. The majority of the largest U.S. organizations use skill-based pay for some proportion of their blue-collar workers.


ANS: F

More than 16 percent of the Fortune 1000 companies use skill-based pay systems to motivate employees.




60. Skill-based pay programs are limited by the "topping out" effect.



ANS: T


61. Some organizations have resolved the problem of “topping out” in skill-based pay by installing a gain-sharing program after most employees have learned all the skills required.


ANS: T


62. Flexible benefit plans allow mangers to choose their employee’s pay raise each year, with some restrictions.


ANS: F

Flexible benefit plans allow employees to choose the benefits they want, rather than having management choose for them.

40. One of the six factors on which the ability of rewards to motivate individuals or a team to high performance is durability. Durability means that some rewards last longer than others.


ANS: T 

 41. The ability of rewards to motivate individuals or a team to high performance depends on four factors, which included timeliness, performance contingency, equity, and effort.


ANS: F

The ability of rewards to motivate individuals or a team to high performance depends on six factors, which included availability, timeliness, performance contingency, durability, equity, and visibility.


42. Visible rewards, such as job titles and premium parking spaces, send signals to employees that rewards are available, timely, and based on performance.


ANS: T

43. Extrinsic rewards tend to last longer than intrinsic ones.



ANS: F

Intrinsic rewards tend to last longer than extrinsic ones.


44. Four popular reward systems that organizations use to motivate employees are: gain-sharing programs, profit-sharing programs, skill-based pay, and flexible benefits.


ANS: F

Four popular reward systems that organizations use to motivate employees are: informal reward programs, profit-sharing programs, skill-based pay, and flexible benefits.