External system improves phones' signal strength 1000 percent without requiring extra antennas
We've heard it for years: 5G is coming.
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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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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 to ...
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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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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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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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Bitcoin transaction delays: Is block size increase the final answer?
The good news: the Bitcoin network had not reached the widely predicted saturation point as recently feared. The bad news: The spam that caused the problem is suggesting to some Bitcoin watchers that saturation is not that ...
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Facebook-checking technique may show pals' sleep times
A developer had an idea to see how one might use Facebook to see when friends are awake. Søren Louv-Jansen discussed his thoughts and technique on Medium. "Like most of my friends, I use Facebook on a daily level," he wrote. ...
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YouTube tool allows creators to blur moving objects
There are instances where you might look at a picture and say "Yuck it came out blurry." In this day of moving images and privacy battles, however, people caught in documentary or man in the street stints are not pleased; ...
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Judge's ruling confirms CMU engineers hacked TOR network
A recent ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Jones reveals what many in the Internet business have known for some time—namely that the U.S. Department of Defense paid researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Software ...
