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TikTok On TikTok, all is not as it seems. Engage with dance videos and you’ll start seeing more people doing the Renegade. If you linger on a TikTok dog, it will give you puppies galore. But TikTok’s algorithmic obsession with giving you more content that it thinks you will like…

Artist: Olivia Erlanger Venue: Bel Ami, Los Angeles Exhibition Title: Split-level Paradise Date: January 25 – March 7, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Bel Ami, Los Angeles  Press Release: Through her sculpture, writing, and…

Twitter has rolled out its 'Hide Replies' feature to its developer community, allowing them to create tools that would help users hide replies in the conversation thread on the micro-blogging platform that are offensive, hateful or racist in nature.Developers can now create tools that automatically hide bad tweets like those…

Picture used for representational purpose only.   | Photo Credit: REUTERS Developers can now create tools that automatically hide bad tweets like those including certain prohibited keywords or those that score high for being toxic Twitter has rolled out its ‘Hide Replies’ feature to its developer community, allowing them to…

Transcript Important: Our transcripts at HRExaminer are AI-powered (and fairly accurate) but there are still instances where the robots get confused and make errors. Please expect some inaccuracies as you read through the text of this conversation. Thank you for your understanding. Full Transcript with timecode John Sumser 0:13 Good…

When artificial intelligence researcher Marc Faddoul joined TikTok a few days ago, he saw something concerning: When he followed a new account, the profiles recommended by TikTok seemed eerily, physically similar to the profile picture of the first account. Following a young-looking blond woman, for instance, yielded recommendations to follow…

The phrase gained traction last spring, aided in part by a New York Times analysis of polling that suggested a silent (on Twitter) and moderate majority of Democrats. “The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the more moderate, more diverse and…

About half of the experts responding to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation, but even those who expressed optimism often voiced concerns. This section includes comments about problems that were made by all respondents regardless of their answer to…

The title of Adam Rutherford’s new book, How to Argue with a Racist, is tempting and ticklish, though ultimately it’s not much more than literary clickbait, designed to entice browsers to pluck the book from a shop’s display table (perhaps pickbait would be a better term). That is because, naturally,…

Russell outside the ballroom at the Hilton on Wednesday, mobbed by audience goers wanting to ask questions. "A lot of people operate on the assumption that it's only when we make machines that are conscious that we will have a problem," he says. "You can make super-intelligent machines, and it…