Finnish 'Polite Type' font combats cyberbullying
A Finnish tech company has released an unusual tool to help combat cyberbullying: a type font.
Internet
News tagged with young people
Machine learning & AI
Supercomputer helps retrain AIs to avoid creating offensive pictures for specific cultures
If you ask an AI image generator to give you a picture of something, the results can range from appropriate to clueless to downright offensive. It's particularly bad for cultures that aren't well represented in the Internet's ...
Jun 4, 2024
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Business
America's low-carbon transition could improve employment opportunities for all
The U.S. is likely to see consistent job growth from the transition to net zero, but the gains will be unevenly distributed, shows a new analysis. The analysis, conducted by Imperial College London researchers and published ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Robotics
A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat
What happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke? How can we protect ourselves in a warming planet? To answer these burning questions, Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat.
Jul 22, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Anxious individuals identified by analyzing their walking gait
Can you identify if someone is anxious based on how they walk? That's what students at Clarkson University wanted to know. Now their research has been published in Sensors. It is part of the Special Issue Analysis of Biomedical ...
May 6, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
The Moral Machine reexamined: Forced-choice testing does not reveal true wishes
A pair of researchers at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is challenging the findings of the team that published a paper called "The Moral Machine experiment" two years ago. Yochanan Bigman and Kurt Gray claim ...
Internet
Surgeon general calls on Congress to require social media warning labels, like those on cigarettes
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.
Jun 17, 2024
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Telecom
Why are people sending voice messages? Communications expert explains phenomena
Sometimes a text isn't enough, but a phone or video call would be too much.
Jun 12, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Age verification for social media would impact everyone—researchers ask parents and kids if they actually want it
This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children's exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially ...
May 22, 2024
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Business
X owner Musk says opposed to US ban of competitor TikTok
Elon Musk on Friday came out against banning TikTok in the United States, even if it would mean less competition for his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as the initiative sees fresh bipartisan momentum in Congress.
Apr 20, 2024
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Youth
Youth is the period between childhood and adulthood, described as the period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to maturity and early adulthood. Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals exist at all ages.
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