Our faces have never been more vulnerable. Facial recognition algorithms make it easy to identify individuals from a single snap — a fact that’s particularly relevant at a time of protest. But with the help of advances in machine learning, it’s also easier than…
When Camille François, a longstanding expert on disinformation, sent an email to her team late last year, many were perplexed. Her message began by raising some seemingly valid concerns: that online disinformation — the deliberate spreading of false narratives typically designed to…
New tools which could be used to automatically detect and counter abuse on social media, are being developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield. The research, led by Professor Kalina Bontcheva from the University’s Department of Computer Science, is developing new…
AI algorithms can generate text convincing enough to fool the average human—potentially providing a way to mass-produce fake news, bogus reviews, and phony social accounts. Thankfully, AI can now be used to identify fake text, too. The news: Researchers from Harvard University and the MIT-IBM Watson…
People in India watch a lot of videos on the internet. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Indians spend more than 8.5GB of mobile data on average, and most of it on video. Last year, YouTube said more than 95% of…
A study from the Aalto Acoustics Lab demonstrates that digital simulations of guitar amplifiers can sound just like the real thing. The implications are that as the software models continue to improve, they can replace traditional analogue guitar amplifiers, which are bulky,…
Social media influencers have become a common tool in a marketeer’s toolbox to reach current and potential customers, building awareness, third-party credibility and purchases. But the rapid growth of this channel (in little over 10 years) has brought with it significant debate…
