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Ethics and Essay Enrichment Program: Session – 1 About the Program, Click Here In this video important concepts such as Veil of IgnoranceVarious cognitive biasesCognitive DissonanceMoral HazardEcho Chambe…

ELI PARISER: There was some research recently into asking people to try to figure out which of two websites was more credible. And they asked a group of students and a group of journalists and a group of professional fact checkers. And interestingly, the stud…

You will soon be able to hide replies in the conversation thread on Twitter that are offensive, hateful or racist in nature. The micro-blogging platform is testing a feature called "Hide Replies", beginning with users in Canada which will be rolled out global…

Earlier this year, Instagram announced that it was testing a design shift that would hide the number of likes on posts. Now, the company is expanding that design change to additional countries. TechCrunch reports today that Instagram will now hide the number…

Twitter today is beginning its test of a radical and controversial change to its service with the launch of a new “Hide Replies” feature. Effectively, this option gives users the ability to wrestle back control over a conversation they’ve started, by hiding a…

Upgrade Your Thinking, with Super Thinking authors Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann

Claudio Agosti is laughing. The hacker is giving a talk about how Facebook works at the art festival Transmediale in Berlin. He talks about how the social network weaves its algorithms in order to attract people into their web like spiders do with flies. In h…

'Fake news' has undeniably been biased in favour of populist or anti-establishment parties. As politically charged misinformation has been proliferating online, it is no wonder that many have been questioning whether the spread of fake news has affected the r…

From massive data breaches to devastating phishing scams, the users privacy is always at risk in this digital age. Given that we spend a lot of time on the internet, it is important we all take our personal privacy more seriously. It is useful in many cases …

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, the 22 year old son of Robert H. Morris, Sr., launched what is considered the first computer worm to be distributed via the Internet. The Morris Worm, or Great Worm, once released slowed down infected systems to a cr…