https://techxplore.com/internet-news/ en-us The latest news on the internet, world wide web, web 2.0 and science technology. When looking for a new type of book, movie, or restaurant, your search may suggest a title or venue you've already purchased or experienced. This is because the artificial intelligence tools many companies rely on push users into a "filter bubble," resulting in recommendations identical, or very similar to, what has been previously purchased. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-algorithm.html Internet Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:36:03 EDT news608214961 Optical data communications lasers can transmit several tens of terabits per second, despite a huge amount of disruptive air turbulence. ETH Zurich scientists and their European partners demonstrated this capacity with lasers between the mountain peak, Jungfraujoch, and the city of Bern in Switzerland. This will soon eliminate the necessity of expensive deep-sea cables. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-lasers-enable-internet-backbone-satellite.html Internet Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:47:43 EDT news606487657 An optical fiber about the thickness of a human hair can now carry the equivalent of more than 10 million fast home internet connections running at full capacity. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-team-industry-standard-optical-fiber.html Internet Tue, 30 May 2023 15:32:38 EDT news604679555 Two types of people thrive in the distant hidden recesses of the Dark Web. One type consists of the good guys: whistleblowers, freedom fighters, journalists, the intelligence community and law enforcement agencies, all generally waging the good fight against power, greed and tyranny. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-darkbert-language-dark-web.html Internet Tue, 23 May 2023 14:20:01 EDT news604070247 The explosion of generative AI has taken the world by storm, but one question all too rarely comes up: Who can afford it? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-dark-cloud-chatgpt-revolution.html Internet Sun, 21 May 2023 06:34:34 EDT news603869668 Google on Wednesday said it is opening Bard, a rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT, to 180 countries as it expands use of artificial intelligence across its platform. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-google-chatgpt-bard-expansion.html Internet Wed, 10 May 2023 15:36:41 EDT news602951790 There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-05-online-predators-children-webcams.html Internet Wed, 03 May 2023 12:48:25 EDT news602336899 Cookies. Fingerprinting. Tracking. Surveillance. Spyware. Geostalking. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-04-tor-vpn-company-browser-privacy.html Internet Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:09:54 EDT news599843387 Google announced Tuesday it's allowing more people to interact with " Bard," the artificially intelligent chatbot the company is building to counter Microsoft's early lead in a pivotal battleground of technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-google-artificially-intelligent-bard-stage.html Internet Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:46:48 EDT news598617992 The rise of artificial general intelligence—now seen as inevitable in Silicon Valley—will bring change that is "orders of magnitude" greater than anything the world has yet seen, observers say. But are we ready? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-ai-upend-world-electricity-internet.html Internet Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:10:01 EDT news598427810 Six decades ago, an episode of the legendary TV series "The Twilight Zone" warned us about the risks of ticking off machines. Frustrated by a wave of modern appliances, a grumpy magazine writer in the episode "A Thing About Machines" takes out his frustrations on them and breaks them. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-gpt-excitingand-ominousachievements.html Internet Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:10:06 EDT news598179032 It's happened to anyone with a cell phone—dropped calls or dead air because suddenly there is no service available. Or worse, the location pin drops on the navigation app. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-smart-surfaces-wireless-communication-localization.html Internet Fri, 03 Mar 2023 13:02:51 EST news597070967 Microsoft's nascent Bing chatbot turning testy or even threatening is likely because it essentially mimics what it learned from online conversations, analysts and academics said on Friday. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-angry-bing-chatbot-mimicking-humans.html Internet Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:00:25 EST news595915215 To help identify when tense online debates are inching toward irredeemable meltdown, Cornell researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can track these conversations in real-time, detect when tensions are escalating and nudge users away from using incendiary language. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-hostile-online-ai-tool-users.html Internet Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:55:16 EST news595612508 Google said Monday it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an artificial intelligence showdown with Microsoft which has invested billions in the creators of ChatGPT, the hugely popular language app that convincingly mimics human writing. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-google-chatgpt-like-bot-bard.html Internet Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:08:02 EST news594918469 The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-cheaters-beware-chatgpt-maker-ai.html Internet Tue, 31 Jan 2023 14:07:06 EST news594396421 When it comes to efficiency and quality, light-emitting diodes (LED) are the MVP of today's lighting technology. A team of Chinese researchers are using recent LED improvements as a springboard to launch a more interconnected illumination network. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-internet-illumination-communication-ministration.html Internet Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:59:04 EST news592840741 Personal emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked some time ago have been exposed according to Israeli security researcher Alon Gal—making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities exposed if they have used the site anonymously to criticize oppressive governments, for instance. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-twitter-leak-exposes-million-email.html Internet Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:52:25 EST news592239138 Emerging forms of thin-film device technologies that rely on alternative semiconductor materials, such as printable organics, nanocarbon allotropes and metal oxides, could contribute to a more economically and environmentally sustainable internet of things (IoT), a KAUST-led international team suggests. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-greener-internet-wires.html Internet Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:00:02 EST news591442724 New signal-processing algorithms have been shown to mitigate the impact of turbulence in free-space optical experiments, potentially bringing "free space" internet a step closer to reality. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-algorithms-turbulence-free-space-optic.html Internet Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:06:02 EST news590749561 Searching the internet can reveal information a user would rather keep private. For instance, when someone looks up medical symptoms online, they could reveal their health conditions to Google, an online medical database like WebMD, and perhaps hundreds of these companies' advertisers and business partners. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-faster-privacy-online.html Internet Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:57:04 EST news589654621 When fighting the spread of misinformation, social media platforms typically place most users in the passenger seat. Platforms often use machine-learning algorithms or human fact-checkers to flag false or misinforming content for users. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-empowering-social-media-users-content.html Internet Wed, 16 Nov 2022 12:34:04 EST news587824441 Twitter has announced a subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check now given only to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk works to overhaul the platform's verification system just ahead of U.S. midterm elections. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-twitter-users-blue-monthly-fee.html Internet Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:49:07 EST news586939742 Google on Wednesday said it wanted to develop artificial intelligence using the world's one thousand most spoken languages as tech giants compete to dominate the internet's next battleground. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-google-ai-thousand-languages.html Internet Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:08:48 EDT news586624125 Have you ever noticed the faces in Facebook ads seem to match your gender, race or age? That isn't an accident, Northeastern computer science researchers say. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-facebook-ad-delivery-algorithm-discriminating.html Internet Tue, 25 Oct 2022 09:20:04 EDT news585908402 Cornell researchers have developed a fairer system for search recommendations—from hotels to jobs to videos—so a few top hits don't get all the exposure. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-team-fairer-diversifies-results.html Internet Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:23:44 EDT news582816221 Social media users may trust artificial intelligence (AI) as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, according to researchers at Penn State. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-users-ai-humans-flagging-problematic.html Internet Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:13:05 EDT news582545579 We live in an increasingly connected world, a fact underscored by the swift spread of the coronavirus around the globe. Underlying this connectivity are complex networks—global air transportation, the internet, power grids, financial systems and ecological networks, to name just a few. The need to ensure the proper functioning of these systems also is increasing, but control is difficult. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-failures-large-networks-local-focus.html Internet Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:00:05 EDT news577356713 Trolls, haters, flamers and other ugly characters are, unfortunately, a fact of life across much of the internet. Their ugliness ruins social media networks and sites like Reddit and Wikipedia. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-toxicity-open-source-varies-internet-forums.html Internet Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:55:03 EDT news575654101 Meta on Friday said that it is adding the ability to easily socialize in virtual reality with an update to its Quest 2 headsets in another step toward the metaverse. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-meta-quest-vr-gear-people.html Internet Sat, 11 Jun 2022 04:15:53 EDT news574139738