Experts from Cardiff University are developing a statistical tool that uses social media to make real-time predictions of where hate crimes may occur.
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2016
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For children with speech and language disorders, early-childhood intervention can make a great difference in their later academic and social success. But many such children—one study estimates 60 percent—go undiagnosed ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2016
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An inefficient legal system and what amounts to unchecked abuse of vague and overbroad legislation have contributed to a chilling effect on free speech within India's society and throughout its public sphere according to ...
Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2016
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Facebook's recent decision to block a Norwegian user's post containing the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of children, one of them a terrified and naked girl fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam war, was met by a cry ...
Internet
Sep 14, 2016
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It's one of the most famous quotes of all time. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," were the first words NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong uttered when he set foot on the moon at 02.56 GMT on July 21 ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2016
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Kids needed to say just two words - "jump" and "go" - to control a video game called Mole Madness, but Disney researchers had to design a speech technology system capable of sorting through the overlapping speech, social ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 6, 2016
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Hillary Clinton recently described Donald Trump's ideas as "dangerously incoherent". "They're not even really ideas," she said, "just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies." She wasn't wrong; incoherence ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2016
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Hate speech in social media can damage or even destroy the reputation of an individual or a company very quickly. Widespread opinion blames the fact that individuals generally write these things anonymously online as the ...
Internet
Jul 25, 2016
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German police on Wednesday launched nationwide raids targeting social media users who posted racial hatred on Facebook and other online networks.
Internet
Jul 13, 2016
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How much liability do website owners and other online service providers have for content posted by other people? If someone posts content on your website that is defamatory, constitutes hate speech, disseminates child pornography ...
Internet
Jun 30, 2016
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