In this digital age, children are exposed to overwhelming amounts of information online, some of it unverified and increasingly generated by non-human sources, such as AI-driven language models. As children grow older, the ...
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2023
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As biology is progressing into a digital age, it is creating new opportunities for discovery.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 15, 2022
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Researcher Davinia Moreno, a geochronologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a study published recently in the journal Quaternary Geochronology, which combined ...
Earth Sciences
May 14, 2021
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Kurt Cobain, former lead singer of Nirvana, famously sang "Just because you're paranoid don't mean they aren't after you." And 'after you' seems to be exactly what they are. I am referring to the tech-giants who are collecting, ...
Internet
Mar 22, 2018
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In the 1930s Alan Turing imagined a "universal computing machine" capable of computing nearly anything. Today, that universality is the backbone of the information age: Turing-like computers are running governments, businesses, ...
Security
Jan 19, 2017
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Although we currently live in the "Information Age" what we actually generate, and most of the time fail to make meaningful use of, is data. The Australian Government's Productivity Commission has released a report that highlights ...
Internet
Nov 4, 2016
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After a disaster or national tragedy, bits of information often are found afterward among vast amounts of available data that might have mitigated or even prevented what happened, had they been recognized ahead of time.
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2015
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When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation launched a broadside at Google, claiming the company abuses its overwhelming market position in Europe, it looked a lot like a clash between web and print – the Information Age vs ...
Internet
Sep 23, 2014
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Northeast Ohio is hardly ready to usurp Silicon Valley as a high-tech mecca, but a growing number of data centers are choosing to locate in and around Cleveland to take advantage of cheap power, an abundance of fiber-optic ...
Business
Aug 31, 2014
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Humans, as a species, are around 200,000 years old. Compared to the age of the universe we're clearly infants but compared to the internet, we're pretty old and compared to social media, which is still in its infancy, we're ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2014
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