Facebook, Twitter and Google berated by senators on Russia
Russian operatives, likely working from St Petersburg, provoked angry Americans to take to the streets, a US Senate committee heard on Wednesday.
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One-size-fits-all quality system ‘forces private colleges to lie’
A senior academic standards assessor has hit out at England’s “one-size-fits-all” quality system, claiming that it forces staff at alternative providers to fabricate evidence for inspections.
This edible packaging will make you reconsider seaweed
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Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?
Just in time for Halloween, a research team from the MIT Media Lab's Scalable Cooperation group has introduced Shelley: the world's first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration.
Hacked from the inside
Cheap devices, known as keyloggers, are being used by students to steal professors’ passwords on campus and to change grades.
Communities rise up to draw down on carbon
In early October, county residents overflowed the Marin Showcase Theatre in Northern California for Drawdown: Marin.
Fact check: Team Trump uses misinformation, inaccuracies responding to Mueller probe
President Donald Trump and his stable of surrogates have tried to discredit former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in wake of his guilty plea to special counsel Robert Mueller
Google ditched autopilot driving feature after test user napped behind wheel
Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit stopped developing features that required drivers to take control in dangerous situations
Chinese university considers adding a campus in N. H.
The possibility that the Chinese University of Hong Kong will take over the defunct Daniel Webster College in Nashua and turn it into a branch of the Asian college could open up a new chapter in New Hampshire’s long history of higher education.
Russia-linked posts ‘reached’ 126m Facebook users in US
Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years.
