Splinternet refers to how the internet is fragmented, divided, separated, blocked, boxed in, or otherwise segmented. For both nation states and corporations, there is money and control to be gained by influencing the information people can access and share, as well as the costs that are paid for this access. The idea of a splinternet … Read more
For Harvard students today, technology is virtually inevitable. Students select courses, submit assignments, and even attend classes through various online platforms. The Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Graduate School of Design have gone so far as to explicitly require students to have computers. But that wasn’t always the case. In a 2017 … Read more
DNS servers are one of the best ways to protect yourself while you surf, and also one of the ways that big companies can get your information. But they can also help you avoid online ads that you find intrusive or particularly invasive. If you want to protect your privacy or block ads on the … Read more
Short while? Here are the highlights: The global population of Internet users continues to grow, but the average time online has decreased slightly this year Even so, the use of social media continues to grow as those key networking and messaging channels are also growing to play a bigger role in brand research and discovery, … Read more
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, AI insiders heatedly discussed an open letter signed by Elon Musk and various industry heavyweights arguing that AI poses an existential risk to humanity. They have asked the labs to … Read more
LR: Moderator Ashley Gold of Axios, Imo Udom and Liv Erickson of Mozilla, Peter van Hardenberg of Ink & Switch | Politician/Derek Robertson AUSTIN, Tex. The upheavals of recent years in the world of technology he turned conventional wisdom upside down by transforming it even-runs into celebrities, titans in turkeysand even the financial system itself … Read more
TOPIC ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on February 21, 2023 at 4.31pm Eric Schnapper argues before the judges for the Gonzalez family. Justice Neil Gorsuch was “under the weather” and participated in the argument from a distance. (William Hennessy) The Supreme Court on Tuesday debated the scope of a 27-year-old federal law that protects social media … Read more
