Do you often use Facebook? How about Snapchat, Gmail, Dropbox, Slack, Google Drive, Spotify or Minecraft? Perhaps all of them? Bottom line, if you use an online social network, e-mail program, data storage service or a music ...
Security
Oct 20, 2017
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Snopes, the popular myth-busting website, said Friday it was ending its fact-checking partnership with Facebook as part of a "difficult, but necessary change."
Internet
Feb 2, 2019
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Do you know someone who knows someone? We have all played this game, often to be amazed that despite the extreme scale of human society, random people can be linked through very small chains of acquaintances—typically, ...
Mathematics
Jun 26, 2023
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Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking platform's employees.
Internet
Mar 21, 2019
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Andrew Whiten, an evolutionary and developmental psychologist with the University of St. Andrews in the U.K., has published a Review piece in the journal Science giving an overview of evidence for culture in many species ...
The Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University has launched a powerful new tool in the fight against fake news.
Internet
Dec 21, 2016
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Four years in the making, the European Union's new data protection rules have finally been agreed by the European Council and await the approval of the European Parliament. But a last-minute addition has sparked a debate ...
Internet
Dec 22, 2015
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Microsoft's Bing search engine was inaccessible in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors.
Internet
Jan 23, 2019
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Like flocks of birds or schools of fish, crowds of humans also tend to move en masse—almost as if they're thinking as one. Scientists have proposed different theories to explain this type of collective pedestrian behavior.
Social Sciences
Mar 21, 2022
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It's January – a time when students are looking for that extra bit of oomph. For some, time spent on social media might provide the necessary inspiration to get up and exercising – but that time can come with consequences, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2019
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