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Enlarge (credit: Facebook) Facebook news feeds can get pretty cluttered, especially with clickbait posts fishing for as many likes, shares, and comments as possible. But it appears that enough users have complained to Facebook about these posts that the social media platform will start cracking down on what it is calling “engagement bait.” In a […]
GUEST: There are a number of disturbing elements to the Russian election hacking scandal — most notably the fact that a foreign entity was somehow able to use Facebook and other social networks to influence an already stressful U.S. election. But what has baffled me most about the hacking scandal is that the Russians were […]
To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits. https://media.wired.com/photos/59f26a5e04964613af90c567/master/pass/StreamAnalysis_2880x1620-2880×1620.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Worried about a dystopian future full of robots that decide how you see the world? You can wait until tomorrow’s fantastic Blade Runner 2049 to imagine how that might look in the future, or you can get there faster by logging in to modern YouTube. At least, that’s The Wall Street Journal‘s take. […]
The social network has repeatedly shown the ability to tackle tough problems—when they threaten their bottom line. https://media.wired.com/photos/59ca794df0ff7d1bd02a3ea8/master/pass/MarkZ-Facebook-HP-622247702.jpg Feed: All Latest
We can give computers vision, but we can take it away too. https://media.wired.com/photos/599db70e0d6c7e7125178f36/master/pass/Shutterstock-HP-watermark.jpg Feed: All Latest
If you’re roaming the internet, you might run across recommendation engines. Some offer products or services you’d actually want to use, but does interacting with them harm your privacy even more? Researchers developed an algorithm to reveal how much info you’re handing over when you click around, essentially picking out which parts of a recommendation […]
Snap a photo and the neural network can identify exactly how to make it look better in a 20th of a millisecond. https://media.wired.com/photos/5984b64fac96be53cda58da2/master/pass/MIT-Instant-HP.jpg Feed: All Latest
Sony Scroll through Twitter and you’ll find plenty of sarcastic comments—not to mention lots of cases where sarcasm apparently went straight over someone’s head. Luckily, an algorithm MIT researchers developed to analyze tweets can now detect sarcasm, and emotional subtext in general, better than most people. Detecting the sentiment of social-media posts is already useful […]
Combining multiple photographs to create a new image isn’t uncommon, but researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in partnership with NVIDIA have come up with a a pretty wild new technique to create entirely new compositions. It’s called “computational zoom,” and it promises to let photographers adjust the focal length (which basically […]
