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Month: January 2025

Computers

Ordering coffee with your feet: Study explores foot-based controls for augmented reality systems

January 13, 2025 Tech Xplore

Imagine controlling apps with your feet while you walk. This concept is the focus of new research which explores using gait gestures—intentional variations in how you walk—as controls for augmented reality (AR) devices.This article was […]

Internet

Meta abandons racial diversity programs in further right-wing shift

January 11, 2025 Tech Xplore

Social media giant Meta announced Friday it is dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the company, marking another major shift in strategy as it aligns with politically conservative priorities.This article was originally […]

Internet

How Meta’s fact-checking program works

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Internet giant Meta’s fact-checking program aims to counter false information on its social platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—with the help of media organizations, including AFP.This article was originally published on this website.

Computers

Group activity recognition: A dataset with detailed annotation and rich semantics

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Group activity recognition (GAR), which aims to identify activities performed collectively in videos, has gained significant attention recently. Existing GAR datasets typically annotate only a single Group Activity (GA) instance per sample, carefully selected from […]

Computers

Microsoft introduces rStar-Math, an SLM for math reasoning and problem solving

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the […]

Internet

Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future of fact-checking

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta’s shock announcement that it will halt its US program.This article was originally published on this […]

Internet

‘Real-world harm’ if Meta ends fact-checks, global network warns

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

There will be “real-world harm” if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg’s claim such moderation amounts to censorship.This article was originally […]

Internet

Zuckerberg’s censorship claim ‘false’: International Fact-Checking Network

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that the fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram has veered into censorship is “false”, the International Fact-Checking Network said Thursday.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

How secure is your Wi-Fi network? Research uncovers major vulnerability in wireless networking technology

January 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

We often take for granted just how ubiquitous Wi-Fi has become over the past two decades, explains Northeastern University electrical and computer engineering professor Francesco Restuccia, who is also a member of the Institute for […]

Internet

New tool finds hidden biases in Wikipedia’s multilingual content

January 9, 2025 Tech Xplore

Cultural and social biases significantly influence Wikipedia’s multilingual content, according to a team of researchers that includes a computer scientist from Johns Hopkins University.This article was originally published on this website.

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