[This article is originally published in today.com vox.com written By Kara Swisher - Uploaded by AIRS Member: Jay Harris] Forces have been unleashed that seem out of control. But is it the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? Exactly a decade ago, Walt Mossberg and I declared the end ...
[This article is originally published in popsci.com written by David Nield - Uploaded by AIRS Member: Issac Avila] Your phone is logging your activity. Every time you grab your phone to participate in a group chat, watch a YouTube video, or search the internet, you leave a digital trail of activity....
[This article is originally published in privacyend.com written by Zehra Ali - Uploaded by AIRS Member: Issac Avila] In this digital era, it is necessary for you to shield your online activity. Any program under the category of most secure browser ensures that your protection on the web is their top...
Source: This article was Published businessinsider.com By Katie Canales - Contributed by Member: Olivia Russell Technology is advancing so rapidly these days — and we rely upon it so readily — that we hardly notice innovations anymore. But we've actually come a long way since the dawn of the ...
Source: This article was published searchenginejournal.com By Jeremy Knauff - Contributed by Member: Olivia Russell One thing has remained a constant in the search industry: frequent – and often dramatic – changes in technology. As SEO professionals, it’s necessary for us to continue to evolv...
Source: This article was published insidescience.org - Contributed by Member: Carol R. Venuti The short answer is yes. (Inside Science) -- Is the internet changing the way that we think? Yes, it totally is. For one thing, it’s made us all dual-screeners -- constant access to information makes us ...
Source: This article was published digit.in - Contributed by Member: Carol R. Venuti Google now makes Neural Machine Translation available on-device to improve the quality and accuracy of translations. Some two years ago, Google began incorporating Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in its popular la...
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Source: This article was published workology.com By Jessica Miller-Merrell - Contributed by Member: Dorothy Allen This is an ongoing series discussing the strategic role of social media and technology used in hiring and recruitment. Click here to read the series from the beginning. Social media h...
These are, of course, the latest technology available to large metro centers. Your own part of the world will offer speeds that vary with the technology and providers available in your area. For Cellphone Users in City Limits Modern cellphone connections should be 5 to 12 megabits-per-second (5 to 1...
The social media platform Twitter has a bot problem. Twitter has been under increased scrutiny lately for hosting hundreds of thousands of accounts that seem to be legitimately owned by real people, but in fact are just “bots,” or automated accounts, that are created en masse to flood the platfo...
LONDON - Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they generate. By tracking and monitoring our behavior and activities, sm...
DOES YOUR broadband feel like it’s a little slower than usual? Here’s how to easily check your speeds in real-time – direct from the Google homepage. There is no shortage of websites offering to help test your broadband speeds. Netflix has one to help users determine what video quality they ca...
Big Data and the ever-growing access we have to more information is the driving force behind artificial intelligence and the wave of technological change sweeping across all industries. But all the data in the world is useless – in fact, it can become a liability – if you can’t understand...
Networking can feel like a bit of a minefield, especially online. Thankfully, Hays’ Jane McNeill is here to share her top tips. Not so long ago, networking used to be fairly straightforward. It simply involved navigating a crowded room, business card in hand, while scoping out the best people to s...
FOR ALL THE hype about killer robots, 2017 saw some notable strides in artificial intelligence. A bot called Libratus out-bluffed poker kingpins, for example. Out in the real world, machine learning is being put to use improving farming and widening access to healthcare. But have you talked to...
Today, blockchain technology is still at an early stage of its development and will be used in new interesting projects in the future, according to cryptocurrency expert Bogdan Shelygin. "It’s difficult to predict what will happen to Bitcoin in the future, but I can say with full confidence t...
The CIA is developing AI to advance data collection and analysis capabilities. These technologies are, and will continue to be, used for social media data. INFORMATION IS KEY The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) requires large quantities of data, collected from a variety of sources, i...
On the night of November 7, 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife, Lucy, took to her bed with a headache. The returns from the Presidential election were trickling in, and the Hayeses, who had been spending the evening in their parlor, in Columbus, Ohio, were dismayed. Hayes himself remained up until ...
After Charlottesville, Nazis, white supremacists, and the alt-right have become a lot less welcome on the web. So they’re building their own. p data-editable="text" data-uri="The social network Gab.ai started in August 2016, three months before the world changed. The timing was not a coincidence. ...
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From The Terminator to Blade Runner, pop culture has always leaned towards a chilling depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and our future with AI at the helm. Recent headlines about Facebook panicking because their AI bots developed a language of their own have us hitting the alarm button once ...
 Are you a liar? You bet you are but the real you is emerging through your online activities. What Big Data knows about the real you. There are things about which we all lie. We lie about our innermost hopes, fears, and desires. We lie to our friends, spouses, doctors, pollsters, even to ourselves....
Short Bytes: Is there are a difference between internet speed and internet bandwidth? Yes, there is. Internet bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can pass through a network link in a given time and internet speed is the actual data that passes through. It gets affected by various physical...
The internet today is driven by smartphones, tablets, and personal computers: devices that deliver information for human consumption. In five years, those devices will be in the minority, outnumbered by machines designed to communicate with one another in “smart” homes, offices, cities, and cars...
In April, a photograph of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o taken at a Miu Miu fashion show three years ago began recirculating online. Their friendly body language and chic clothes (Rihanna wore thigh-highs, fur and leather; Lupita a plum jacket with a jeweled collar) caught the imagination of the inte...
Two major grassroots campaigns show not only the depth of public concern about protecting the Internet from the FCC under Ajit Pai, they’ve reaffirmed EFF’s ongoing work to push back and make sure the Internet remains free. In March, Congress sparked widespread outrage by voting to repeal the b...

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