Internet
The platforming of our lives on social media apps —like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter —is usually met with criticism. Interactive technologies, like video games and social media, we're told, make us anti-social. Now, ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Facebook is reaching out to give the world a hug—in the form of an emoji people can share while staying safely apart.
Apr 17, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
Trade friction between industries involved in information communication technology (ICT) has become apparent in recent years. This trade friction has a striking impact on various industries. Adaptations to these economic ...
Apr 17, 2020
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Facebook on Monday said it is providing anonymous data about users' movements and relationships to help researchers better anticipate where the coronavirus might spread.
Apr 7, 2020
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Facebook on Tuesday activated a feature allowing people impacted by the coronavirus pandemic to reach out for help from their community.
Mar 31, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Army Research Office have demonstrated a new model of how competing pieces of information spread in online social networks and the Internet of Things (IoT). The findings ...
Mar 27, 2020
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Internet
Social media has the power to both inform and deceive—and do both at speeds we have never experienced. That fact has, once again, been on display as the COVID-19 epidemic has dominated social media platforms for weeks.
Mar 27, 2020
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Help groups on social media are connecting people with those most in need during the coronavirus lockdown, fostering a community spirit often neglected in the capital's fast-paced life.
Mar 25, 2020
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Instagram said Tuesday it was ramping up efforts to promote reliable content about the coronavirus pandemic and stop the spread of misinformation on the image-centric social network.
Mar 24, 2020
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Facebook on Monday began enlisting outside developers to create ways its Messenger service can help health organizations battling the novel coronavirus.
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A social network service focuses on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail and instant messaging services.
Social networking has encouraged new ways to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people.
While it could be said that email and websites have most of the essential elements of social network services, the idea of proprietary encapsulated services has gained popular uptake recently.
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category divisions (such as former school-year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook widely used worldwide; MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn being the most widely used in North America; Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, Hi5, StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), Decayenne, Tagged, XING;, Badoo and Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America and Central America; and Friendster, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, Xiaonei and Cyworld in Asia and the Pacific Islands.
There have been some attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open Source Initiative), but this has led to some concerns about privacy.
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