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Can AI Identify Toxic Online Content? Social platforms large and small are struggling to keep their communities safe from hate speech, extremist content, harassment and misinformation. Most recently, far-right agitators posted openly about plans to storm the U.S. Capitol before doing just that on January 6. Continue Reading . . . https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-ai-identify-toxic-online-content/

A Vast Web of Vengeance Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Mr. Continue Reading . . . https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/technology/change-my-google-results.html

Apple's online-only WWDC starts on June 22nd, will be free to all Shelter-in-place orders and limits on public gatherings forced Apple to cancel the in-person portion of its Worldwide Developers Conference, but the show will go on -- and now we know when. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/apple-wwdc-2020-online-only-free-attendance-160641433.html