Computer Sciences
(TechXplore)—A team of researchers working at the Computational Story Laboratory (in Vermont) has conducted data mining and text analysis of approximately 1,700 stories from books available on the Project Gutenberg website ...
Consumer & Gadgets
In recent years, voice assistants such as Siri, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Cortana have become increasingly popular. People in many countries worldwide communicate with these artificial intelligence (AI) agents on ...
Business
Silicon Valley is poised once again to cash in on other people's products, making a data grab of unprecedented scale that has already spawned lawsuits and congressional hearings.
Jun 23, 2023
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Internet
Researchers at the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have launched upgrades to two tools playing a major role in countering the spread of misinformation online.
May 17, 2018
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Internet
If you're trying to post a news story on Facebook, the platform might just stop you from doing that—even if the link is to a reputable source.
Mar 19, 2020
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Computer Sciences
An algorithm-based system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites like Google News with a new weapon in the fight against misinformation.
Aug 21, 2018
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial intelligence has been used to extract John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create "the last Beatles record," decades after the band broke up, Paul McCartney said Tuesday.
Jun 13, 2023
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Computer Sciences
OpenAI's text generator, machine learning-powered—so powerful that it was thought too dangerous to release to the public, has, guess what, been released.
Internet
A proposed law requiring internet giants to pay for news stories moved forward in California on Friday, despite Facebook owner Meta threatening to pull news from its platform if it passes.
Jun 3, 2023
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Security
By this time, news stories have made words like bugs, viruses and malware familiar and by all means frequent, as computer users scramble to self-educate on how to avoid falling victim to a range of security invasions.
