Internet
Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Europe's top court ruled Monday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the "like" button.
Jul 29, 2019
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Internet
Internet users may soon have a way to have their questions about online privacy policies answered automatically, thanks to a new multi-institution research project that includes Penn State.
Jul 24, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Did social media spoil the Avengers' Endgame movie for you? Or maybe one of the Game of Thrones books? A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego is working to make sure that doesn't happen again. They ...
Jul 8, 2019
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Security
File under New and Official. After you check out this week's headlines for WebAuthn and W3C. The latter stands for Worldwide Web Consortium. The WebAuthn is now an official web standard. Backers say the specification marks ...
Consumer & Gadgets
As the year gets under way a lot of talk encircles the word autonomous and it is not confined to the big Ds of driving and drones. Add an R for retail and you have a growing concept of autonomous shopping.
Security
When hugely popular websites and services such as Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal and Amazon Web Services are taken offline, it affects millions or even billions of internet users. The cyberattack that brought down these ...
Oct 25, 2016
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Security
There is an escalating technological arms race underway between governments and hacktivists. As governments step up their surveillance, the hacktivists find new ways to subvert it.
Jul 28, 2016
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