Internet
From tweeting photos of delicious meals to reviewing restaurants, social media give foodies numerous opportunities to indulge their passion for edibles. But these media and other digital communications—including recipe ...
May 18, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
The coronavirus pandemic has shown that one of the most important weapons in the fight against any disease is accurate information—and trusted individuals within a community to disseminate it.
Feb 22, 2021
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Business
For three global organizations, the discourse around AI has shifted from negative concerns about privacy and the mass collection of data to more positive debates about how it can be used as a tool and a facilitator of change, ...
Oct 11, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Twitter is ending free access to its application programming interface, or API. An API serves as a software "middleman" allowing two applications to talk to each other. An API is an accessible way to collect and share data ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Internet
Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm takes into account more kinds of information than previous algorithms ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Addressing climate change isn't just a technical issue; it's a societal one. A recent article in Nature Energy highlights the increasing urgency for engineers and social scientists to combine their expertise.
Aug 16, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a text, they generate data. Science runs on data—without it, we wouldn't have the James Webb Space Telescope's ...
Aug 22, 2023
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Internet
Facebook said Friday it suspended "tens of thousands" of apps on its platform as a result of a privacy practices review launched following a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica.
Sep 20, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Cognitive scientists are modeling the inner workings of the human brain using computer simulations, but many current models tend to be inaccurate. Researchers in the Cognitive Neurorobotics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Social scientists have identified 10 dimensions to describe the nature of human relationships but little research has focused on how these concepts are expressed through written language, and what role they have in shaping ...
Apr 24, 2020
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