Artificial Intellengence (AI) and Individual Privacy

David Pierce explains how varioius Artificial Intelligence software packages are crawling and harvesting documents from corporate websites. The documents are then incorporated into AI databases without compensation to the originating corporation or individual authors.

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Trolls

Michael Bérubé offers straight talk on internet trolls, warning those in academia of how to combat the scourge.

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Stressing the Internet

Dritan Suljoti suggests that the internet may slow with all of the traffic inspired by people staying at home, but it will continue to function.

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Digital Natives Are of All Ages

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vanessa Kitzie, Erin M. Hood, and William Harvey have conducted research which shows that age is less important than previously thought in estimating a person's internet use.

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Worldview Distortion

Michael Dougherty rants about filter bubbles resulting from Internet news and opinion sites.

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Living Without a GUI

Bryan Lunduke found living without a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to be intolerable after ten days, because our user experience is now so visual. He shared software, some with roots in the 1980's, which provided a form of user experience, but it was extremely cumbersome to command the computer using only text.

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Transoceanic Data Transmission

Tim Hornyak provides the specifications for Google's trans-Pacific optical cable : it is designed to transmit data ten million times faster than a home cable modem.

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Ethical Dilemmas From the Internet

Peter Wayner lists twelve ethical dilemmas involved in software development in the Internet age.

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Computing's Historical Records May Be Lost

Michael Conney reports that Minitel's history is in danger of being lost . Minitel was a French data network that was a precursor of the current Internet technology.

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International Broadband Price Comparison

Grant Gross reports that "U.S. Broadband Service Is Competitive with Other Nations."

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Pew Internet Research Reports

The Pew Research Center provides current reports on the Internet and technology usage by the American people. For example, the Center recently found that blogging has fallen into disfavor with young adults because Facebook, Twitter and other social media consume the time that would have gone into maintaining an online journal.