The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers…
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Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to on-stage interviews, an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech…
by Amelia Johns, Emily Booth, Francesco Bailo and Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, The Conversation Credit: The Conversation During the COVID pandemic, social media platforms were swarmed by far-right…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cheaper app subscriptions. Additional payment options. Greater freedom for app developers on the App Store. More consumer choice. Those are some of…
Even companies that sell apparel goods in the United States can have a hard time tracing their origins. Credit: Renee Zhang/Northeastern University Almost all of the…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Apple, Google and Meta are set to face the EU’s wrath next week as Brussels prepares to hit the tech giants with…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The content moderation policy adopted by Meta at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic to rein in misinformation on Facebook has proved…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon is currently being investigated for selling illegal electronic devices, including radio signal jamming devices that can be used to confuse drones,…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Since its astronomical rise in popularity during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, TikTok has played an increasing role in all aspects of American…
For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of the missing Princess of Wales that…