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'Squadbox' uses 'friendsourcing' to better support targets of cyberbullying

Harassment has become ubiquitous on social media and in the online world- Twitter has been under fire for how it handles harassment, YouTube's trending algorithm has occasionally promoted offensive videos, and reporting abuse ...

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Apr 05, 2018
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DNS service announced, puts privacy first

A new service that is offering privacy protection when you browse the web was announced Sunday. The security company Cloudflare is delivering a consumer DNS service called 1.1.1.1.

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Apr 02, 2018
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How Cambridge Analytica's Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it

The researcher whose work is at the center of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data analysis and political advertising uproar has revealed that his method worked much like the one Netflix uses to recommend movies.

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Mar 30, 2018
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Voice assistants will have to build trust before we're comfortable with them tracking us

We're all used to targeted advertisements on the internet. But the introduction of voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Google Assistant mean that companies are capturing all new kinds of data on us, and could build much ...

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Mar 12, 2018
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On Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories: study

A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.

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Mar 08, 2018
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DuckDuckGo's Gabe Weinberg on how big internet firms trample our privacy online

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is among the digital prophets warning us how Google, the Goliath he's been challenging for 10 years with his Paoli-based non-tracking search engine, and other giants of information are ...

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Mar 07, 2018
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Ethereum responds to eclipse attacks described by research trio

In a nutshell, three researchers have described in a paper "Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum's Peer-to-Peer Network" that it is possible to carry out an eclipse attack on the Ethereum network. As important, maintainers ...

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Mar 05, 2018
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Background-swap technology suitable for mobile phones announced

Video creators: Want to swap backgrounds? Knock yourselves out. Google researchers have been working on a way to let you swap out your video backgrounds using a neural network—no green screen required. It's rolling out ...

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Mar 04, 2018
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Tracker finds nearly half of last year's ICO offerings bit the dust

ICO stands for initial coin offering. A startup sells its own crypto token to raise money.

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Feb 27, 2018
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Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy – here's why you should be worried

Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they ...

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Feb 07, 2018
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Facebook patent talk: Seeing who is rich, poor, in the middle

"Socioeconomic group classification based on user features," is a title that evokes an uh-oh just as much as an oh-really.

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Feb 06, 2018
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Love actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons

While the trusty "like" button is still the most popular way to signal approval for Facebook posts, a computer model may help users and businesses navigate the increasingly complicated way people are expressing how they feel ...

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Feb 06, 2018
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Facebook explains how it will prioritize local news

Facebook on Monday said it's prioritizing local news on the social network as part of the tech firm's efforts to encourage more users to interact on and off the site.

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Jan 31, 2018
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Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay for news

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has seized the moment and weighed in as Facebook struggles to deal with the aftermath of its role in the spread of fake news that affected the U.S. presidential election: He wants Facebook to pay ...

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Jan 26, 2018
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Facebook's smartniks come up with Flicks unit of time

Developers aiming to have all video effects in sync just got a real boost.

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Jan 24, 2018
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Facebook is making a big change to your news feed

Facebook is radically altering the formula that determines what bubbles to the top of people's news feed, part of sweeping changes the giant social network has planned to address growing controversy over the role it plays ...

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Jan 12, 2018
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Trust in digital technology will be the internet's next frontier, for 2018 and beyond

After decades of unbridled enthusiasm – bordering on addiction – about all things digital, the public may be losing trust in technology. Online information isn't reliable, whether it appears in the form of news, search ...

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Jan 04, 2018
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Is your computer secretly mining Bitcoin alternatives? A guide to 'cryptojacking'

Nothing comes for free, especially online. Websites and apps that don't charge you for their services are often collecting your data or bombarding you with advertising. Now some sites have found a new way to make money from ...

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Dec 19, 2017
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Yes you can: Chrome beta will let you mute autoplay video

(Tech Xplore)—Google Chrome beta says happy holidays in a way that will make many people happy. The beta delivers a mute tool for autoplay video. You can get this by downloading the Chrome 64 beta.

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Dec 18, 2017
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Datally app launched by Google helps monitor, control mobile usage

(Tech Xplore)—A new app from Google is designed to ease the load off mobile users who are regularly worried about using up their mobile data.

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Dec 01, 2017
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Yale researchers cannot feel the punch in Facebook fight to tag fake news

(Tech Xplore)—Earlier this year Facebook put its fake-news boxing gloves on and announced it was going to fight the good fight by turning to third-party fact checkers and show findings below the original post, in a battle ...

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Sep 15, 2017
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Burger King Russia makes Waves, presents Whoppercoin

When burgers are served with sides of their very own cryptocurrency, well, watch out for news headlines. Burger King Russia is in the news with an initiative involving their signature Whopper.

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Aug 29, 2017
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Cryptocurrency: Feedback is invited for estcoin idea

(Tech Xplore)—Cryptocurrencies are being talked about worldwide and now it looks as if Estonia could be one actor to take them to the next level. Estonia is thinking about issuing its own crypto token and holding an ICO.

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Aug 24, 2017
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Using blockchain technology to address worldwide food safety

A group of leading companies across the global food supply chain today announced a major blockchain collaboration with IBM (NYSE: IBM) intended to further strengthen consumer confidence in the global food system. The consortium ...

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Aug 23, 2017
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Follow the Bitcoin to find victims of human trafficking

A team of university researchers has devised the first automated techniques to identify ads potentially tied to human trafficking rings and link them to public information from Bitcoin - the primary payment method for online ...

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Aug 16, 2017
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