The World Wide Web at 29: Tim Berners-Lee talks weaponization and big tech
It's turning 29—what do you get the World Wide Web that has everything?
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Mar 13, 2018
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Zagat on menu for restaurant review site Infatuation (Update)
Restaurant review new-comer The Infatuation announced Monday a deal to buy veteran Zagat from Google for an undisclosed amount.
Business
Mar 5, 2018
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Study dispels notion social media displaces human contact
Echoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of "social displacement"—the alienation of people from friends and family in favor of Facebook and Twitter.
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2018
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Cuban town hooked on pirate social network
On a traffic island in a country town, young Cubans are doing what most of their compatriots cannot: surfing an online social network.
Internet
May 9, 2017
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Geeking out in the golden years
Philip Guo caught the coding bug in high school, at a fairly typical age for a Millennial. Less typical is that the UC San Diego cognitive scientist is now eager to share his passion for programming with a different demographic. ...
Other
Apr 19, 2017
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What's wrong with the web and do we need to fix it?
More than 20 years after the first web server started bringing the internet into our lives, a recent conference in San Francisco brought together some of its creators to discuss its future.
Internet
Jun 24, 2016
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New study highlights power of crowd to transmit news on Twitter
The tiny fraction of headlines that news editors push out on Twitter draw a large share of eyeballs, but it's the stories recommended by friends that trigger more clicks.
Internet
Jun 15, 2016
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Apple users experience services outage (Update)
An array of Apple services including the App Store and Apple TV were knocked offline for several hours on Thursday due to an unexplained technical glitch.
Business
Jun 2, 2016
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New scrolling technique accelerates skim reading
The amount of data that we take in from screens each day through documents, email chains, web pages and social media flows is enormous. The continuous scrolling technique we typically use to browse this data is, however, ...
Internet
Mar 29, 2016
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Surprisingly, the online advertising industry's future may lie in offering more privacy, not less
The online advertising industry has faced a considerable backlash recently as a greater understanding of how the practices of data scraping, aggregation, mining and user profiling are carried out behind the scenes. From Edward ...
Internet
Jan 25, 2016
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