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Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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Apple's Rise to Top Means Less Than You Think
With Apple officially becoming the world's most valuable company—at least for a day—it's tempting to engage in lofty talk about what this says about the rise...
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Education Needs a Digital-Age pgrade
If you have a child entering grade school this fall, file away just one number with all those back-to-school forms: 65 percent. Chances are just that good that...
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Why I Already Miss Physical Media
For years, I had a happy weekend ritual. I'd head to my local Tower Records and lose myself in the aisles of CDs and DVDs. After emerging from the store—usually...
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Google's Self-Driving Wreck: Really Human Error?
When a self-driving car crashes, one just has to wonder about those robots. Are they really all they're cracked up to be? Or might they be just as cracked as...
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Why Isn't America Innovating Like It sed To?
America isn't innovating like it used to. And by "like it used to," I mean the period from after World War II to 1973, when an explosion of new technologies increased...
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When Knowledge Isn
“Making fun of Wikipedia is so 2007,” a French journalist said recently to Sue Gardner, the executive director of the foundation that runs the Wikipedia project...
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Encrypt the Web with Https Everywhere
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in collaboration with the Tor Project, has launched an official 1.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere, a tool for the Firefox Web...
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Web Search Is Ready For a Shakeup, Says w Computer Scientist
University of Washington (UW) professor Oren Etzioni recently called on the international academic community and engineers to be more ambitious in designing how...
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Google's Instant Pages and the Joys of a Computer that Can Read Your Mind
Chrome is reading my mind. When I type a search query in Google's Web browser, it offers me the most likely results right in the address bar. It doesn't justWikipedia...
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Shady Rat Hacking Is Not About China
Jeffrey Carr, author of O'Reilly Media's Inside Cyber Warfare, argues that McAfee's supposed revelations about large-scale Chinese hacking attacks are a smokescreen...
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ltimate Logic: To Infinity and Beyond
The mysteries of infinity could lead us to a fantastic structure above and beyond mathematics as we know it.
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From Gamification to Intelligence Amplification to The Singularity
I've been thinking about the combination of artificial intelligence and intelligence amplification and specifically the symbiosis of these two things. And the...
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Art That Interacts If You Interface
The Museum of Modern Art’s "Talk to Me: Design and the Communication Between People and Objects" is one of the smartest design shows in years—by which I mean...
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Why Cloud Computing Must Evolve
The marked increase in the use of the Internet for accessing computing resources will necessitate an evolution in the cloud computing network.
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Bob Young on Collaboration, Innovation, and Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Bob Young knows about open source and innovation. He's co-founder and former CEO of Red Hat. Founder and CEO of Lulu. Here are the lessons he's learned from open...
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Could Google Have Caught the Norway Killer?
The Norway killer allegedly spent 200 hours searching the Internet for 'how to make a bomb.' Could Google have traced him?
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Existence: Am I a Hologram?
Take a look around you. The walls, the chair you're sitting in, your own body—they all seem real and solid. Yet there is a possibility that everything we see...
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How a Hashtag Changed My Philosophy on Life
Twitter users have a way of self-identifying gratuitous complaints they make. They use the hashtag first-world problems. As in, "I can't believe Netflix is doubling...
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