Author: Kalev Leetaru

For Mobile Users Ad-Supported 'Free' Sites Cost Them Real Money

What If Web Browsers Told Us How Much The 'Free' Web Was Costing Us?

Why Don't We Have Online Fitness Trackers For Our Web Usage?

We Must Recognize Just How Brittle And Unpredictable Today's Correlative Deep Learning AI Is

As AI Comes For Management Perhaps We Should Look Forward To Machines Taking Our Jobs

Using AI To Analyze Video As Imagery: The Impact Of Sampling Rate

Will Hypersonic Weapons Finally Push Us Towards AI-Powered Missile Defense?

Automated Speech Recognition Yields More Consistent Results Than Human Captioning

We Must Stop Comparing Deep Learning's Real Accuracy To Nonexistent Human Perfection

Could Automated Claim Extraction And Tracking Combat Digital Falsehoods?

Combatting Digital Falsehoods Through Coverage Maps

Social Media Killed Our Offline Privacy Too

We Must Recognize That A Lot Of Data Science Comes From Teams Not Individuals

Social Versus News Media And Detecting The Present Versus Forecasting The Future

Editorialized Language Imperils Trust in Fact-Checking

Targeted Ads Reinforce Bias By Seeing Only A Slice Of Our Lives

As Deep Learning Comes For Medicine How Do We Work Around Its Brittleness?

Is It Time To Regulate Biased And Harmful Stereotypes In Social Media Ads?

Facebook's Content Moderators As Modern Coal Miners

Is Social Media Simply Too Sick And Depraved To Continue?

Ransomware Highlights The Vulnerabilities Of Aging City IT

Could Web Archives Serve As Canonical Online Imagery Archives To Combat Deep Fakes?

The Right To Unplug And Silence The World

Are Smartphone Dashboards Misleading Us?

Our Smart Devices Should Warn Us About Cyberattacks And Data Reuse

Fighting Deep Fakes Through Cellular Verification

Do Instagram's Ads Reinforce Harmful Stereotypes?

App And Device Development Today Is About Data Collection

Is Social Media's Toxicity Because Of The Web's Shift From Enlightenment To Entertainment?

Are Behaviorally Targeted And Interest-Based Ads Really As Powerful As We Claim?