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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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How TikTok Reads Your Mind
It's the most successful video app in the world. An internal company document offers a new level of detail about how the algorithm works.
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Those Cute Cats Online? They Help Spread Misinformation.
A mainstay of the Internet is regularly used to build audiences for people and organizations pushing false and misleading information.
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Investors Snap Up Metaverse Real Estate in a Virtual Land Boom
Transactions for properties in digital realms are jumping, guided by the same principle in the physical world: location, location, location.
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Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it's struggling to deal with their effects.
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Facebook Will Pay up to $14 million to Settle Claims it Favored Foreign Workers
The claims were part of an effort by the Trump administration to push the country's biggest tech companies to hire more U.S. workers.
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Why NASA Launched a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
In a vast odyssey across the solar system, the mission will study asteroids known as Trojans that may contain secrets of how the planets ended up in their current...
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Cybersecurity Experts Sound Alarm on Apple, EU Phone Scanning Plans
Over a dozen cybersecurity experts have criticized proposals by Apple and the European Union to scan phones for illegal content.
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Facebook Whistle-Blower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate the Company
Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
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Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.
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Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook
When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked...
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The Melting Face Emoji Has Already Won Us Over
Of the 37 new emojis approved this year, one stood out as a visual proxy for our collective malaise.
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Biden Administration Combating Ransomware with Crackdown on Cryptocurrency Payments
Cybersecurity experts see exchanges as a weak point for ransomware gangs that otherwise operate wholly in on the Internet, all but untouchable by law enforcement...
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Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close Spyware Flaw
Apple released emergency security patches after researchers in Canada found a flaw that allows spyware from Israel's NSO Group to infect any Apple product.
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Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw
Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click.
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Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb. Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try
The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.
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The World's Biggest Crypto Exchange Still Lacks U.S. Footing
The founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, needs investors for the company's U.S. unit after a recent venture capital deal fell through — a setback that cost him a...
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Facebook's New Bet on Virtual Reality: Conference Rooms
The pandemic has renewed interest in virtual reality. Facebook is trying to capitalize with a new virtual meeting room service.
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How AI Is Fighting Wildfires
The University of California, San Diego's Ilkay Altintas and colleagues have spent eight years helping fire managers and scientists combat wildfires through the...
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Inside Facebook's Data Wars
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources...
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