With so much research, data and evidence in the world, it’s tough to pull it together in a useful way.
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With accessible software tools and workflows, machines can be left to do the laborious work so that people can focus on planning, thinking and doing.
Researchers have found people use the ‘like’ button on social media posts for many reasons.
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The ‘like’ button does far more than just express how much a person likes a particular picture or post. It could be used to make social comparisons.
Labor laws are often based on how we worked decades ago.
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Hundreds of court cases show that companies are using features of timekeeping software to shortchange workers, a few minutes at a time.
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Cloud services became popular due to the benefits they can offer to users, but their adoption can be opposed by IT departments.
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A branch of AI research promises to deliver computers that evolve their own software but the tech industry has yet to catch on.
Software tools can take multiple languages to entirely new spaces.
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Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.
Spectre and Meltdown affected billions of devices.
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Preventing problems like Meltdown and Spectre from reocurring requires software developers to be given sufficient information about hardware to ensure security.
The Mount Agung volcano spews smoke, as seen from Karangasem, Bali.
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Robots, like drones, are filtering the natural world through algorithms and turning the world into data.
Your gadgets might slow down if they’re bloated with apps.
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There are a few reasons why smartphones, tablets and PCs start to seem less snappy over time.
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Treating video like a mutating gene could improve surveillance software.
Is this our relationship to tech companies now?
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The companies that make our digital devices think – and act – like they still own them, even after we’ve bought them. Are we becoming digital serfs?
Those who got advice from the online calculator in the study showed a small, but statistically significant, increase in trust towards robo-advice.
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Robo-advice might prove most useful to those who need it the most, making them feel more competent and in control.
Taking a much closer look at what’s going on inside malware.
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How do malware analysts examine software that’s designed to wreak havoc with computers? By using tools that watch software’s inner workings very closely.
GnuPGP still has many important uses today.
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Most people have never heard of the software that makes up the machinery of the internet
- especially the tools that keep us safe.
Ironically, one of the biggest advantages of a bot-based application system is that it can come across as more personal than a human.
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If companies are using automated software in hiring, then job applicants should be able to use the same technology.
Businesses struck by ransomware have to make some hard decisions.
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Movies tell us that paying a ransom means the bad guys win, but in the real world it’s not that simple.
The “WannaCrypt” malware has disrupted vital infrastructure in countries around the world.
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“It is time for a digital Geneva Convention to protect the internet.”
How do you defend yourself in virtual reality?
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Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
New software could help to reveal the story behind the imprint.
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How to solve mysteries with an accessible computer program.
Will our digital phrasebook finally be able to handle more than just simple snippets?
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Auto-translation software has been pretty frustrating to use. But news of vast improvements to Google’s translation software raises the prospect that websites will soon be browsable in any language.