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Can blockchain, a swiftly evolving technology, be controlled?

The headlong pace of technological change produces giant leaps forward in knowledge, innovation, new possibilities and, almost inevitably, legal problems. That's now the case with blockchain, today's buzziest new tech tool.

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May 03, 2017
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Protecting young people's privacy as Facebook claims it can identify their anxieties

In a report leaked to the Australian media, Facebook has outlined how it can use an analysis of activity and sentiment of users posting on its platforms to identify their various levels of anxiety.

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May 03, 2017
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Can blockchain technology help poor people around the world?

Big Wall Street companies are using a complicated technology called blockchain to further increase the already lightning-fast speed of international finance. But it's not just the upper crust of high finance who can benefit ...

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May 01, 2017
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How social media data can improve people's lives—if used responsibly

In January 2015, heavy rains triggered unprecedented floods in Malawi. Over the next five weeks, the floods displaced more than 230,000 people and damaged over 64,000 hectares of land.

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Apr 13, 2017
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New extension improves inflight Wi-Fi: ScaleUp loads websites up to four times faster

To air travelers who waste precious time inflight staring blankly as your browser struggles to load a page, relief may be a quick download away.

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Mar 14, 2017
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Good news in an era of fake news—the public is becoming wiser about how the media works

Storytelling is a key part of human culture. Where politics and power are concerned, stories become something not only to be told, but to be shaped and influenced – so that, in many cases, they are used to mislead or deceive. ...

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Mar 06, 2017
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Algorithm identified Trump as 'not-married'

Scientists from Russia and Singapore have created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86 percent precision using data from three social networks instead of one. While testing, the program identified Donald ...

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Mar 06, 2017
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Are you really anonymous online? Your friends on Twitter may give you away

As you browse the internet, online advertisers track nearly every site you visit, amassing a trove of information on your habits and preferences. When you visit a news site, they might see you're a fan of basketball, opera ...

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Feb 08, 2017
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Here's how we can protect ourselves from the hidden algorithms that influence our lives

In political terms, 2016 has been a year of uncertainty. Yet, it has also seen the rising dominance of algorithms, complex mathematical calculations that follow a pre-set pattern and are increasingly used in technology designed ...

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Dec 21, 2016
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Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship

The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site's users, and for the company itself.

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Dec 05, 2016
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4chan raids—how one dark corner of the internet is spreading its shadows

The internet is full of dark places. There are websites where people gather to share illegal images, buy illicit drugs and air offensive opinions that wouldn't be tolerated on most mainstream sites. But just as the memes ...

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Nov 09, 2016
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Hi Emma: A conversational Heek helps you create your website

(Tech Xplore)—You make things, you fix things, you help people get to where they want to go. No matter what type of business you plan on starting, the first to-do tasks on your mind include getting a website going. A newly ...

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Oct 05, 2016
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Interactive web features can help and hurt user's memory

Cool interactive web tools and neat features can boost a user's memory but they may also cause other content on the site to be less memorable, according to researchers.

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Sep 02, 2016
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Music tempo carries hidden information

Who could even dream of thinking, period, when in a small dance club where the pulsating floodgates of club music are being let loose. Here's a thought, though. What if you could hide messages in the tempo of that pounding ...

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Aug 20, 2016
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Is anything ever 'forgotten' online?

When someone types your name into Google, suppose the first link points to a newspaper article about you going bankrupt 15 years ago, or to a YouTube video of you smoking cigarettes 20 years ago, or simply a webpage that ...

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Jul 11, 2016
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New 'GreenWeb' tools aim to create an energy-efficient web

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new, open-source computer programming framework that could make the web significantly more energy efficient, allowing ...

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Jun 16, 2016
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Half of online users get news from Facebook and other social platforms

A wave of disruption has hit news organisations around the world, with potentially profound consequences both for publishers and the future of news production, according to a report by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Jun 15, 2016
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Facebook says bug in Messenger app on Android fixed

(Tech Xplore)—As many know by now, Facebook recently had a security issue involving Messenger. Outside Facebook, security researchers said that a bug with the Messenger service would have allowed attackers to change the ...

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Jun 08, 2016
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Google team taking upper hand if misbehaving AI agent attempts anything terribly smart

(Tech Xplore)—The twin effects of popular fiction (machines turning into killer squadrons) and scientific progress (machine learning) have made AI both exciting and scary in its future potential.

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Jun 06, 2016
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Facebook introduces DeepText, text understanding engine

(Tech Xplore)—Facebook has announced via blog post, technology that it has been working on for some time, called DeepText—its purpose is to read every word posted on Facebook, including comments, make sense of them, and ...

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Jun 02, 2016
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Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency

Of the millions of Twitter users, there are about 98% who want to hide their location. So they switch off the function that publicly displays the location of any tweet.

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May 23, 2016
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Researchers reveal inconsistent borders in online maps

We all look at the world subjectively, from our own point of view. Mapmakers, we assume, do the opposite: They portray the world objectively, as it actually is.

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May 20, 2016
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Facebook engineer tells why he gives Open/R platform huge likes

Facebook is talking about an extensible distributed network application platform, and the benefits attached to such a platform.

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May 12, 2016
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Blockchain is useful for a lot more than just Bitcoin

Blockchain technology is not just useful for creating digital currencies such as Bitcoin or developing new financial technologies.

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May 10, 2016
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Facebook still shows muscle in drawing in young and old

Yes, old news. We know. Facebook demographics is believed to be caught up in a troublesome shift and Facebook had better brace itself. Fandom does not last forever. Younger users are fleeing for the likes of Twitter, Instagram, ...

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Apr 03, 2016
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