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Computer Sciences Oct 27, 2015

Swimming in a deluge of user generated content

The Internet is awash in user generated content (UGC)—from blogs, reviews, and Q&As, to wikis, tweets, and Facebook posts. And let's not forget photo- and video-sharing sites: every second, one hour of video is uploaded ...

Internet Sep 14, 2015

Facebook pledges to combat racism on German platform

Facebook pledged Monday to combat racist hate speech on its German-language network amid a spike in xenophobic comments online as Germany faces an unprecedented influx of refugees.

Ecology Aug 23, 2015

Out of juvie, into nature: California youth run wild webcams

Harry Grammer, the CEO of a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that works with young adults, wanted to give kids recently out of the juvenile justice system real jobs and marketable skills.

Engineering Aug 10, 2015

Swimming without a trace: Building a machine to mimic what sea lions naturally do

At a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour, sea lions may not be the fastest-swimming mammal in the sea. But they are unrivaled when it comes to stealth—their signature clap-and-glide flipper motion propels them through water ...

Security Jul 28, 2015

Is your phone safe from hackers?

A multimedia text could be the vessel that cripples as many as 950 million Android phones around the world, a mobile security expert warned in a Forbes article on Monday.

Internet Jul 20, 2015

Malaysia blocks UK-based whistle-blower website

Malaysian authorities said they had blocked a UK-based website that had published corruption allegations against Prime Minister Najib Razak, but the portal vowed Monday to press on with its exposes.

Software Jul 20, 2015

Opinion: When Chrome, YouTube and Firefox drop it like it's hot, Flash is a dead plugin walking

After more than 20 years making the web a slightly more interesting and interactive place, albeit one that pandered to designers' worst excesses and (in pre-broadband days) led to interminable download waiting times, the ...

Software Jul 2, 2015

New research platform provides support to journalists

In-depth research is the key to all good journalism – but even experienced journalists have trouble dealing with the huge quantities of information available nowadays. A novel research platform promises to help editors ...

Social Sciences Jun 22, 2015

Dropping the volume around schools can improve learning

There's no escaping noise, whether it's caused by traffic, construction, or planes flying overhead. Usually we have no choice but to get on with our daily lives and in many instances noise is little more than an annoyance. ...

Computer Sciences Jun 12, 2015

Team creates click-and-drag interface enabling rapid video object segmentation

Investigators at Disney Research Zurich have developed a method for achieving very accurate object segmentation of video by enabling human editors to work efficiently with state-of-the-art algorithms using a click-and-drag ...

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