And the events have changed the overall dynamics between influencers and brands. For one thing, the deep discounts that customers used to get through big-time influencers aren’t likely to remain if brands are making deals with livestreamers who have much smaller followings. And instead of relying on influencers’ huge reach, […]
Do Computers Have Feelings? Don’t Let Google Alone Decide
Placeholder while article actions load News that Alphabet Inc.’s Google sidelined an engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence system had become sentient after he’d had several months of conversations with it prompted plenty of skepticism from AI scientists. Many have said, via postings on Twitter, that senior software engineer Blake Lemoine […]
Meet the LGBTQ activists fighting to be themselves online in Malaysia
Many online attacks on LGBTQ Malaysians start with their fellow social media users (although some suspect that political or religious groups may be helping coordinate them). Individual threats can escalate. When a social media post or account is deemed “insulting to Islam” and reported to police, for example, the poster […]
More Asian countries are getting in on the trend
A quantum computer in a vibration-free building. Quantum computing will ultimately speed up the computational power that drives many industries and could affect everything from drug discovery to how data is secured. Oliver Berg | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Quantum computing was already gathering pace in Japan and elsewhere […]
Fears overs technology ‘addictions’ and ‘diso
Questionnaires and scales measuring how we interact with smartphones, social media and gaming should not be used to demonstrate links with mental health and wellbeing, according to research from the Universities of Bath and Lancaster. Surveys that ask people about their technology habits often suggest problematic use, even pointing towards […]
How the Metaverse Will Impact the Global Economy and Digital Landscape
The metaverse is an immersive digital world that virtually connects the entire internet. One of the innovators of this virtual world is Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. At the 2022 IV CEO Summit of the Americas, Meta President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg talked about how this […]
Faster computing results without fear of errors | MIT News
Researchers have pioneered a technique that can dramatically accelerate certain types of computer programs automatically, while ensuring program results remain accurate. Their system boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago that is still widely used today. Their method […]
EEOC Issues Guidance Regarding How Employer Software and Artificial Intelligence May Discriminate Against Individuals With Disabilities | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
[co-author: Wolfram Ott]* On May 12, 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued guidance addressing the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) to employers utilizing software, algorithms, and artificial intelligence in hiring and employment decisions. Produced in connection with the EEOC’s launch of its Initiative on Artificial […]
A New Student Movement Wants You to Log Off
Millennials may have been the first generation to come of age online, but their Gen Z successors have truly grown up with it — and hardly ever log off. A 2018 Pew Research Center survey found that 95 percent of teenagers have access to a smartphone; 45 percent say they […]
Saudi Arabia’s $1bn plan to slow aging, and global energy turmoil
Anyone who has more money than they know what to do with eventually tries to cure aging. Google founder Larry Page has tried it. Jeff Bezos has tried it. Tech billionaires Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel have tried it. Now the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has around as […]