Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a speech to the New South Wales and South Australian government social media summit today, Federal Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland announced more details of how the federal government’s proposed social media ban would actually work. The government first announced the ban last month, shortly after SA said it will…
Rsearchers at Linköping University and RISE, have investigated the costs hidden behind the seemingly free apps. Credit: Anna Nilsen Procrastination, sleep deprivation and reduced focus are part of the price we pay for free mobile apps. This is according to researchers at Linköping University and RISE, who have investigated the costs hidden behind the free…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Changes need to be made to the UK legal system to protect people from exploitative litigation designed to prey on vulnerabilities, a new study warns. Reforms need to be made to protect adults from unfairness during copyright enforcement legal proceedings. This would also help to prevent children being exposed to adult…
Maps of average household energy burden between 2015 and 2020 and change over the period in every census tract in the contiguous United States. (A) Estimates of average energy burden using 2015 and 2020 US Census Bureau’s ACS data in the machine learning model developed. Shades of green represent energy burdens between 0 and 6%….
The Amazon logo is seen, June 15, 2023, at the Vivatech show in Paris. Credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler, File Amazon has revealed new technology that it says will help delivery drivers avoid organizing packages at stops or manually check to see if they have the right parcel for each delivery. The technology—called Vision-Assisted Package Retrieval,…
Credit: University of Toronto Press Canadian cities are falling behind globally when it comes to efficiently moving people. Long commute timeshigh congestion rates and infrastructure that is vulnerable to climate change are symptoms of a mobility crisis. Mobility is an essential public good, and modern policies aim to move people in a safe, efficient, accessible…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of people sit at computers tediously labeling data. These workers are the lifeblood of the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Without them, products such as ChatGPT simply would not exist. That’s because the data they label helps…
The US Department of Justice has said it would demand that Google make profound changes to how it does business. The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday it would demand that Google make profound changes to how it does business and even consider the possibility of a breakup, after the tech juggernaut was found…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it expected third-quarter profits to jump almost three-fold, but fell short of market expectations as it struggled to leverage robust demand for chips used in artificial intelligence servers. The firm is the flagship subsidiary of South Korean giant Samsung Group, by far the largest of the family-controlled…
An out-of-court dispute settlement body, dubbed Appeals Center Europe, will hear cases related to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube at first. An independent appeals panel was unveiled Tuesday to decide disputes between social media firms and their users in the European Union over content posted on their platforms. The out-of-court dispute settlement body, dubbed Appeals Center…
