We live in the age of fake news — both the really fake news that’s simply fake and the kind of news that some people like to call “fake” only because they don’t like hard facts.
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How to make fake friends and influence people politically with botnets by https://is.gd/SWn6wb
Dale Carnegie would be horrified. His classic on how to influence people has been perverted for online political manipulation. How do botnets work? How are they used for mass deception? How to recognize that you might be interacting with a political bot?
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AI and Machine Learning Disruption Timeline by https://is.gd/sCtK2S
How fast? Of all the questions hanging over artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, perhaps the biggest is how fast these technologies will disrupt business and society.
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What I’ve Learned Shopping For A New Tablet by https://is.gd/NQ9WjG
Last week, I discussed why I’m giving up on the iPad Pro. There were some suggestions made in the comments, some interesting criticism and some comments even made about my competence. But I’ve started shopping around for a new device and hope to try a few out over the coming weeks.
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THE INTERNET OF THINGS 2017 REPORT: How the IoT is improving lives to transform the world by https://is.gd/vvZg2P
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disrupting businesses, governments, and consumers and transforming how they interact with the world.
Companies are going to spend almost $5 trillion on the IoT in the next five years — and the proliferation of connected devices and massive increase in data has started an analytical revolution.
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How To Choose A VPN (That’s Safe And Reliable) by https://is.gd/IUN1JA
From today, the Federal Government’s Metadata Retention Scheme becomes compulsory for telcos and internet service providers in Australia. This means your metadata – including text messages, location information and internet connection details – will be stored for two years and available to Government agencies to access on request without a warrant.
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Canada Tries to Turn Its A.I. Ideas Into Dollars by https://is.gd/i1talP
TORONTO — Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada — backed by the Canadian government and universities — were laying the groundwork for today’s boom in artificial intelligence.
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Politicians like it when economists disagree because then they can safely ignore the ones they dislike by https://is.gd/K5Aw9m
In a new paper in International Studies Quarterly, John Quiggin and Henry Farrell argue that politicians get in trouble when they buck a consensus among economists, but when economists are divided, they can simply ignore the ones they disagree with — so politicians spend a lot of time looking for
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Quantum Mechanics, Explained In Five Minutes by https://is.gd/91x2an
Quantum mechanics deals with the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles, incorporating the concepts of quantization of energy, wave–particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and the correspondence principle.
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How All Elections Are ‘Hacked’ by https://is.gd/FXW4I1
US authorities have arrested a reportedly shady character who goes by the alias ‘Severa’ in Spain. Severa, whose real name is Pyotr Levashov, is a Russian spammer who is listed at Number 7 in Spamhaus’ Top 10 Spammer list.
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