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Finding the sweet spot for engaging online content loading

November 7, 2025 Tech Xplore

New research from Stanford’s Yu Ding shows that moderate animation speeds during online wait times boost user engagement and reduce frustration, challenging the notion that faster is better.This article was originally published on this website.

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Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media platforms banning children under 16

November 5, 2025 Tech Xplore

Australia has added message board Reddit and livestreaming service Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children younger than 16 from holding accounts.This article was originally published on this website.

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What is Domain Name System? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web

November 3, 2025 Tech Xplore

When millions of people suddenly couldn’t load familiar websites and apps during the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, outage on Oct. 20, 2025, the affected servers weren’t actually down. The problem was more fundamental – […]

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The great search divide: How AI and traditional web searches differ

October 29, 2025 Tech Xplore

As anyone who uses the internet will know, the way we find information has fundamentally changed. For the last three decades, search engines have delivered ranked lists of links in response to our queries, and […]

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OpenAI says a million ChatGPT users talk about suicide

October 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Data from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI suggest that more than a million of the people using its generative AI chatbot have shown interest in suicide.This article was originally published on this website.

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Meta and TikTok to obey Australia under-16 social media ban

October 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Tech giants Meta and TikTok said Tuesday they will obey Australia’s under-16 social media ban but warned the landmark laws could prove difficult to enforce.This article was originally published on this website.

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China dreams of football glory at last… in gaming

October 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Zhao Yitang had always dreamed of playing football for China and this summer he finally did—not in boots on a pitch, but on a smartphone.This article was originally published on this website.

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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia

October 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia.This article was originally published on this website.

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AI produces shallower knowledge than web search, study finds

October 28, 2025 Tech Xplore

Learning about a topic by interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT rather than following links provided by web search can produce shallower knowledge. Advice given on the basis of this shallow knowledge tends to be […]

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Amazon’s big outage reminds us that we trust big tech companies far too much

October 24, 2025 Tech Xplore

On Monday, October 20, millions of internet users got a painful answer to a question few even knew existed. The question was: What do Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Signal, United and Delta airlines and countless other […]

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