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Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have deployed…
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Fabrications, hoaxes and other lies about the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas this week which killed at least 59…
This is getting absolutely nuts. Just a week after Facebook got busted for allowing advertisers to target topics like…
Mark Zuckerberg disingenuously poses as a friendly critic of algorithms. That’s how he implicitly contrasts Facebook…
Researchers at MIT have developed deep-learning algorithm that can compile a list of ingredients and even recommend…
After four and a half years of not speaking to my mom I’ve learned to stay away from social media on Mother’s Day.
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