AI-generated podcasts flood the market, challenging traditional hosts and listeners
Chatty bots are sharing their hot takes through hundreds of thousands of AI-generated podcasts. And the invasion has just begun.
Dec 15, 2025
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Tech savvy users have most digital concerns, study finds
Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.
Dec 14, 2025
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Can AI be a good creative partner?
What generative AI typically does best—recognize patterns and predict the next step in a sequence—can seem fundamentally at odds with the intangibility of human creativity and imagination. However, Cambridge researchers suggest ...
Dec 12, 2025
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Fairness in AI: Study shows central role of human decision-making
AI-supported recommender systems should provide users with the best possible suggestions for their inquiries. These systems often have to serve different target groups and take other stakeholders into account who also influence ...
Dec 11, 2025
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AI-generated political videos are more about memes and money than persuading and deceiving
Zohran Mamdani as a creepy trick-or-treater, Gavin Newsom body-slamming Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero. This is not the setup to an elaborate joke. Instead, these are all examples of recent AI-generated political ...
Dec 11, 2025
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Amazon bets on color and AI with its priciest Kindle to date
Amazon.com Inc.'s new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is the company's most serious effort yet to turn its e-reader into a productivity tool. But with a starting price of $630—making it the priciest Kindle yet—Amazon will need to ...
Dec 11, 2025
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New industry standards and tech advances make pre-owned electronics a viable holiday gift option
Electronic gifts are very popular, and in recent years, retailers have been offering significant discounts on smartphones, e-readers and other electronics labeled as "pre-owned." Research I have co-led finds that these pre-owned ...
Dec 10, 2025
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Australia's social media ban won't stop cyberbullying
The Australian Federal government's Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act, commonly referred to as the "social media ban," is now in effect.
Dec 10, 2025
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Residential solar panels can raise electricity rates
A modeling study shows how, under some conditions, increasing numbers of households with rooftop solar panels can lead to higher rates for those without their own solar system. When utility customers cancel their accounts ...
Dec 9, 2025
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The metaverse is ushering in a new era of behind-the-scenes exploitation
From ancient slavery to the factory floor, progress has often relied on the exploitation of human beings. We might like to believe those days are well behind us. But in the digital age, AI and the metaverse risk repeating ...
Dec 9, 2025
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