Can Facebook's $1 bn gamble help it regain lost cool?
Like internet personalities the world over, Kenyan TikTok comedian Mark Mwas was intrigued when Facebook announced a $1 billion plan to pay content creators like him.
Jul 23, 2021
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Russia gives Twitter one month to remove 'banned' content
Russia's media regulator Roskomnadzor on Tuesday gave Twitter a one-month ultimatum to remove "banned" content, threatening to consider blocking the social media platform within the country if it does not comply.
Mar 16, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Facebook announces AI that learns from videos
As a platform hosting a great deal of content, Facebook developers are creating an AI project called Learning from Videos that can learn from publicly available videos uploaded to the website. This AI aims to use audio, textual ...
Mar 16, 2021 report
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YouTube to roll out parent-approved accounts for tweens
YouTube on Wednesday said it will roll out new accounts that let tweens or young teens explore the streaming video service within boundaries set by their parents.
Feb 24, 2021
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Reactive video playback that you control with your body
Computer scientists have developed an entirely new way of interacting with video content that adapts to, and is controlled by, your body movement.
Dec 10, 2020
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Internet
Kids as young as 3 years old think YouTube is better for learning than other types of video
Young kids believe that YouTube videos are better for learning than TV shows or videos created on a researcher's smartphone. They also view people in YouTube videos to be more real than those on TV but less real than those ...
Nov 24, 2020
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Internet
Video platforms tested as election misinformation runs rampant
Amid an intense effort by social media platforms to curb misinformation around the US election, political operatives were finding loopholes in YouTube and other video platforms.
Nov 06, 2020
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Internet
Four years since the Mirai-Dyn attack… is the Internet safer?
On October 21st 2016, millions of household IoT devices were infected with the malware Mirai and instructed to send data requests to Dyn, a widely used Domain Name Server (DNS) that acts like a switchboard for the Internet. ...
Oct 30, 2020
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Business
TikTok scrambles to remove suicide video clips, ban users
TikTok says it's working to remove videos of a man apparently taking his own life and banning users that keep trying to spread the clips on the popular social media platform.
Sep 08, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Interactive tool uses AI to search transcripts and calculate the screen time of public figures
Cable TV news is a primary source of information for millions of Americans each day. The people that appear on cable TV news and the topics they talk about shape public opinion and culture. While many newsrooms and monitoring ...
Aug 28, 2020
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