Rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes Known during the Metro FM awards nominations in Johannesburg in January.
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The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
Will justices seek to hold social media firms to account for the postings of terrorists?
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Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
VR headsets are key to realising the Metaverse.
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Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world.
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There won’t be an easy tech fix for the questions about authorship raised by ChatGPT and other text generators.
Google’s dominance in search is undisputed, but could it come under fire?
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Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
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Users have reported some troubling experiences with the recently released search chatbot.
Days numbered?
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Google botched its Bard launch, but that’s not why investors dumped shares in the company.
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Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?
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The numbers are less concerning when viewed in the bigger picture.
Did rumours of a ‘Cleopatra’ re-make drive people to the Egyptian queen’s Wikipedia page?
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Small design decisions by big tech companies can play a role in directing our attention.
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A mandatory news media bargaining code will force the digital giants to compensate NZ news media for content they host and share. But will it close off better options for supporting local journalism?
A synthetic image generated by mimicking real faces, left, and a synthetic face generated from the text prompt ‘a photo of a 50-year-old man with short black hair,’ right.
Hany Farid using StyleGAN2 (left) and DALL-E (right)
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.
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Drones have great potential for carrying out important tasks that are just too hard for humans; delivering fast food isn’t one of them.
The energy consumption of large computers is very high – so what about future quantum computers?
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Recent suggests quantum computers could solve problems with breathtaking speed by comparison to current supermodels.
Google’s EU headquarters is located in Dublin, Ireland. The EU’s new Digital Markets Act could rein in the company’s power.
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While the EU’s ground-breaking legislation to regulate “digital gatekeepers” has its flaws, it could rein in big tech and significantly change how it operates in Europe – and perhaps the world.
The process of conducting elections has become a focal point for misinformation.
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Misinformation has bedeviled social media companies for years, and the problem is especially consequential during elections. Are the companies up to the job as the 2022 midterm elections approach?
Pitta Pitta (Google’s Earth) 2022 from series (Dis)connected to Country.
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Under COVID travel restrictions, I couldn’t travel to Pitta Pitta Country. Instead, I travelled to Country through Google Maps.
Same app, same app store, different risks if you download it in, say, Tunisia rather than in Germany.
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Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example, China than in Canada. But some of those differences pose security and privacy risks.
TikTok’s popularity continues to rise, while other social media networks have seen a decline.
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The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
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September 6, 2022
Nicholas Carah , The University of Queensland ; Aimee Brownbill , The University of Queensland ; Amy Shields Dobson , Curtin University ; Brady Robards , Monash University ; Daniel Angus , Queensland University of Technology ; Kiah Hawker , The University of Queensland ; Lauren Hayden , The University of Queensland , and Xue Ying Tan , Queensland University of Technology
None of the major digital platforms lets the public see what advertising they carry and how it’s targeted, according to a new report.