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Month: December 2021

Internet

What will 2022 bring in the way of misinformation on social media? 3 experts weigh in

December 31, 2021 Tech Xplore

At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved […]

Internet

Five ways the internet era has changed British English

December 29, 2021 Tech Xplore

The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like Alexa, have made communication more accessible than ever before. We have created an […]

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Sharing on Facebook seems harmless, but leaked documents show how it may help spread misinformation

December 28, 2021 Tech Xplore

Dec. 28—A video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeming to slur her speech at an event tore through the internet, gaining steam on Facebook. Share after share, it spread to the point of going viral.This […]

Technology

In a neuroprosthetic first, ALS patient sends social media message via brain-computer interface

December 28, 2021 Tech Xplore

Philip O’Keefe, a 62-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in Australia recently became the first person to post a message on social media using only his thoughts. On December 23, he posted an initial brief […]

Internet

Russia fines Google, Meta record $125 mn over banned content

December 24, 2021 Tech Xplore

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with an unprecedented fine of nearly $100 million, while Meta (formerly Facebook) received a fine of $27 million.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Analyzing online social networking to identify emotions and other characteristics

December 23, 2021 Tech Xplore

A comprehensive review of the various approaches to social networking user behavior analysis is reported in the International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology by a team from India. Pramod Bide and Sudhir Dhage of […]

Internet

'Very sneaky tactics': We asked gamers how they feel about monetization in digital gaming

December 23, 2021 Tech Xplore

More than 40% of the world’s population play video games. But besides being entertaining, digital games are a product. The need to bring in money from players is integral to game design.This article was originally […]

Internet

Will the metaverse protect our privacy, or will it exploit us more than ever?

December 23, 2021 Tech Xplore

The metaverse is more than the latest obsession of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a three-dimensional world of virtual and augmented reality that we will be exploring—via our digital avatars—over the next decade.This article was […]

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'Continued trouble': Amazon Web Services hit by another outage

December 22, 2021 Tech Xplore

A loss of power at a single data center caused an outage at Amazon Web Services, the third one this month.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Computer security experts scramble to fix 'vulnerability of the decade'

December 22, 2021 Tech Xplore

Criminals, cyber spies, and hackers around the world are launching thousands of attempts every hour to exploit a flaw in a widely used logging software as cybersecurity experts are scrambling to close the loophole and […]

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