The future of AI could be great—or catastrophic
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Influencer, celebrity, journalist? Teens are turning to YouTube for news, survey shows
The results are in: Teens turn to YouTube to keep up with current events instead of established news organizations.
Aug 14, 2019
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Robotics
People, not design features, make a robot social
It takes a village to nurture social robots. Researchers who develop social robots—ones that people interact with—focus too much on design features and not enough on sociological factors, like human-to-human interactions, ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Internet
YouTube bans 'implied' threats
YouTube broadened its anti-harassment policies on Wednesday to include a ban on "implied" threats along with insults based on race, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Dec 12, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Gamers want more chances to connect with star players and developers at physical esports events
Professor Babak Taheri from the Marketing and Consumer Studies Research Centre at Nottingham Business School (NBS) surveyed 549 League of Legends spectators, interviewed 13 World of War Craft players and immersed himself ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Internet
It's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible
Last week, the U.S. government released six principles for reforming Big Tech. It's the latest example of growing efforts to regulate the handful of companies with enormous influence over the internet. But while there's a ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Internet
Finding ground truth in social media
Is it possible to extract "journalistic" as opposed to "general" commentary from social media? Writing in the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, a team from Portugal describes an approach to human and automatic ...
Dec 13, 2019
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Business
Facebook gets reprieve from Apple on live events cut
Facebook said Friday it struck a deal in which Apple agreed to temporarily forgo its cut of revenue from paid events at the leading social network to help pandemic-hit performers earn money during the pandemic.
Sep 26, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Novel framework improves resilience to extreme weather
Electricity production and distribution in the U.S. currently depends on more than 10,000 power plants, 642,000 miles of high voltage lines, 56,000 substations and 6.3 million miles of local distribution lines. Much of that ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Internet
Society's dependence on the internet: 5 cyber issues the coronavirus lays bare
As more and more U.S. schools and businesses shutter their doors, the rapidly evolving coronavirus pandemic is helping to expose society's dependence—good and bad—on the digital world.
Mar 30, 2020
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