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Video streaming speed changes could help replace pauses and the frustrating buffering circle
Viewers would rather watch video at slightly lower speeds than endure rebuffering, according to new research from Lancaster University. The...
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55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds
In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image...
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Google overhauls its Maps app, adding in more AI features to help people get around
Google Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and...
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Early-warning model developed to predict toxic social media storms
Researchers at the University at Albany and Rutgers University have developed an early-warning framework that can predict harmful social media...
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What makes a hit? On TikTok and Spotify, listeners only partly decide
TikTok is built for people to create and share their own content, so dance music and indie artists fill the...
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Are Google's 'preferred sources' a good thing for online news?
Why do you see the results you do when you search for information online? It's a complex mix of what...
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'Smartphone-only' internet access deepens digital inequality, study finds
A new study examining digital behavior in Taiwan suggests that simply having internet access is no longer enough to ensure...
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Age verification online can be done safely and privately. Here's how
Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification for some users, joining a growing list of...
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Social media can be addictive even for adults, but there are ways to cut back
Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes....
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Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify Wednesday at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing...
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YouTube says brief outage fixed
YouTube said late Tuesday it had fixed a widespread outage that hit hundreds of thousands of users around the world....
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A new wave of romance scams is washing across the internet—here's how to stay safe
Romance scams are among the most emotionally damaging forms of cyber crime because they combine carefully manufactured intimacy with financial...
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Instagram boss to testify at social media addiction trial
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri is to be called to testify Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom by lawyers out to...
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YouTube rejects addiction claims in landmark social media trial
YouTube's legal team insisted Tuesday that the Google-owned video platform was not intentionally addictive or even technically social media, on...
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OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI has begun placing ads in the basic versions of its ChatGPT chatbot, a bet that users will not mind...
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