Meta suffers global Facebook, Instagram outage
Meta suffered a highly unusual outage of all its social media platforms on Tuesday with users of Facebook, Instagram and Threads locked out of their accounts.
Mar 5, 2024
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OpenAI reveals Sora, a tool to make instant videos from written prompts
The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.
Feb 16, 2024
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'I almost feel like stuck in a rut': How streaming services changed the way we listen to music
Music streaming can alter what was once a private activity into something more seemingly public.
Jan 30, 2024
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The year of social media soul-searching: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social ...
Dec 25, 2023
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X users report global outage: monitoring site
Tens of thousands of global users of X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday reported problems using the Elon Musk-owned social network.
Dec 21, 2023
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'Get Ready With Me': Video genre that focuses on everyday life is everywhere—and not slowing down
"Get Ready with Me"—to go on a date, go to work or ... get fired? "Get Ready with Me" videos are everywhere these days, and they're as straightforward as the name suggests. Social media users, often influencers, invite ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Even experts struggle to tell which social media posts are evidence-based. So what do we do?
The debate on how to combat social media misinformation is as relevant as ever. In recent years, we've seen medical misinformation spreading alongside COVID, and political misinformation impacting the outcome of elections ...
Nov 15, 2023
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Chatbots reveal troubling ability to infer private data
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
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Dumbing down or wising up: How will generative AI change the way we think?
Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes of it online.
Oct 13, 2023
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Tech firms struggle as Israel-Gaza falsehoods explode
From fake accounts impersonating journalists to war-themed video games fueling false narratives, tech platforms are struggling to contain a tsunami of misinformation around Palestinian-Israeli hostilities after rolling back ...
Oct 10, 2023
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