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On April 25, 2022, Twitter's board of directors accepted Elon Musk's US$44 billion hostile takeover bid. Twitter's statement announcing the deal included comments from the Tesla and SpaceX CEO: "Free speech is the bedrock ...
May 04, 2022
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Computer Sciences
It is called YAKE! ("Yet Another Keyword Extractor"), a program developed by INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, in Portugal. Its developers claim the tool can be used in texts ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Artificial intelligence has reached a point where it can compose text that sounds so human that it dupes most people into thinking it was written by another person. These AI programs—based on what are called autoregressive ...
Nov 23, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
As the COVID-19 pandemic surged, the World Health Organization and the United Nations issued a stark warning: An "infodemic" of online rumors and fake news relating to COVID-19 was impeding public health efforts and causing ...
Oct 28, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Over the past decade or so, computer scientists have developed a growing number of computational models that can generate, edit and analyze texts. While some of these models have achieved remarkable results, some aspects ...
Oct 04, 2021 feature
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Computer Sciences
Many companies put millions of dollars towards content moderation and curbing fake news. But what about the old news and misinformation that is still out there?
Mar 30, 2021
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Internet
Facebook's news blackout in Australia has raised fears misinformation could come to dominate the platform in the country, with fake news and conspiracy theories left untouched while credible sources have been cut off.
Feb 18, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge—an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an artificial instructor remains to be seen.
Oct 30, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Scatterplots. You might not know them by name, but if you spend more than 10 minutes online you'll find them everywhere. They're popular in news articles, in the data science community, and, perhaps most crucially, for internet ...
Oct 08, 2020
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In an initial study conducted at the University of Notre Dame, researchers found that least-biased news sources and scientific-based news sources published less than a quarter of all stories currently available about COVID-19. ...
Jun 30, 2020
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