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The World Map of the Internet in 2021 by Martin Vargic
After almost a full year of work, young Slovakian designer Martin Vargic is introducing the brand new Map of the Internet, up to date for the year 2021. This fun and extensive project aims to concisely, but still comprehensively visualize the current state of the World Wide Web today.
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The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
The long read: From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify
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‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video
“I've seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.
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‘We’re Cut Off’: Rural Farmers Are Desperate For Broadband Internet
Millions of Americans live without reliable internet services. For farmers and food providers, this leaves them lagging behind competition and stuck with outdated equipment. Now, they’re looking to the Farm Bill for answers.
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Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60
Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed "the fairy godmother of the web," has died at age 60.
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The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
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Seeing Is Believing? Global Scramble to Tackle Deepfakes
Artificial Intelligence, with a deluge of images created out of thin air and people shown mouthing things they never said, have eroded online trust
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AI porn is easy to make now. For women, that’s a nightmare.
Deepfakes, OnlyFans, revenge porn: The internet is weighing the costs of accessible AI imaging.
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Walled Culture – a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technolog
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How to combat the unethical and costly use of deepfakes
Deepfakes are video, audio and image content generated by artificial intelligence. This technology can produce false images, videos or sounds of a person, place or event that appear authentic. In 2018, there were approximately 14,698 deepfake videos circulating online. Since then, the number has soared through the popularity of deepfake apps like DeepFaceLab, Zao, FaceApp and Wombo.
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Jouez à la Craps en ligne
Le craps est un jeu de dés qui a fini par percer sur la scène des jeux de hasard, notamment sur internet. Mais avant d’entrer dans la famille des Jeux de casino, le craps aurait traversé bien des pays et époques. Ainsi, les historiens auraient trouvé des vestiges du craps en Égypte et certains ossements d’animaux taillés en forme de dés démontrent que l’ancêtre le plus lointain du craps existait déjà en -2000 avant J.C. Reste que ses origines sont confuses, voire même obscures et les théories à ce sujet se confrontent allègrement depuis la nuit des temps
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Mother of ‘Cyberbullied’ Porn Star August Ames Opens Up About Her Last Days
Hilary Rivera reveals how her late daughter was abused as a child, suffered from depression, and how she believes being cyberbullied was the catalyst for her death.
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People are hijacking Google restaurant reviews to tackle disinformation in Russia
While news about the rising death toll, destruction and casualties in Ukraine continue to grip headlines across the world, the story being told to Russian citizens is very different. For those watching TV in the country, the weekend began like any other: chat shows, old movies and regular programmes. By afternoon, however, it had “kicked into high gear, with pundits on debate shows either downplaying or outright denying that an invasion was taking place,” The Guardian noted.
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What Is Web3, Anyway?
Gavin Wood, who coined the term Web3 in 2014, believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy.
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Tech bros have been feeding the trolls – and women are paying the price
Misogynistic abuse is rife online but women don’t bother to report it because nothing gets done. Why? Tech companies just don’t care.
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We Mistake Information We’ve Googled For Our Own Knowledge
In many ways, the internet has democratized knowledge, allowing people to access more information than they could possibly dream of reading. No matter where your interests lie, there is almost certainly something new to learn online.
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The Libertarian and Cypherpunk Connection to Bitcoin
In the early days, long before Bitcoin’s creation, there were only cypherpunks. Cypherpunks were a movement of individuals, starting in the 1980s, who were fascinated by the advancement of information technology and strong encryption.
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Facebook Ads Told Me To Become a Certified Cryptozoologist, So I Did
How a sketchy online degree program led me on an IRL quest for legendary creatures during the pandemic.
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Gender-based online abuse surged during the pandemic. Laws haven’t kept up, activists say.
Reports of online abuse directed toward women and girls — along with LGBTQ and nonbinary people and other marginalized groups — have risen during the nearly two years of the coronavirus pandemic, studies show. Even as governments grapple with a growing impetus to regulate behemoth social media companies and stop cybercrimes, this overarching fact of life online — that women and girls face a heightened risk of abuse and harassment — is often missing from legislative efforts for change, anti-abuse activists say.
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