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Measuring Our 'Not Normal' and 'Divisive' Times
It seems not a day goes by in the Trump Era without the media mentioning that we live in a…
Did President Trump Help Popularize The Phrase 'Tweet Storm'?
Where did the phrase "tweet storm" come from and why is the concept so uniquely associated with Twitter? Read The…
Cloud AI Isn't About Outsourcing Compute It Is About Joining The Front Row Of The AI Revolution
Deep learning in the cloud today is no longer merely about outsourcing compute, but actually joining the front row of…
600 Forbes Columns And Counting
Today Kalev published his 600th Forbes column, just 41 days after publishing his 500th column! In the just over three…
Facebook Is Already Working Towards Germany's End-to-End Encryption Backdoor Vision
It is almost a certainty that the days of being able to securely converse through end-to-end encryption are coming to…
Google's AutoML And BigQuery ML: The Rise Of One-Click Hyperscale Machine Learning
The cloud is no longer just a place where AI experts go to pioneer the future or scarce deep learning…
FiveThirtyEight: Which 2020 Candidate Was Mentioned Most On Cable News Last Week?
FiveThirtyEight's latest analysis of the 2020 Democratic field by Dhrumil Mehta shows Biden's continuing lead but also Buttigieg's rise. Read…
Are Social Media Platforms Engaging In Legal Cyberwarfare?
How does cyber attribution work in a world where private companies are increasingly engaging in the kinds of activities once…
Online Toxicity Is As Old As The Web Itself But The Return To Communities May Help
A closer look back at the early days of the Web reminds us that online toxicity is as old as…
Could 'Government By Code' Eliminate Special Interests And Restore Democracy?
What might happen if our legal systems were codified into software algorithms that were immune from bribes and personal friendships,…
Are We Retreating From Algorithms Or Recreating Community?
This retreat from the global commons to local community is a return to the interest-based and geographically-defined roots upon which…
GDPR Reminds Us The Best Privacy Laws Were Written Before The Social Media Era
The few laws that have actually granted some degree of privacy all predate the social media era, reminding us of…
'Deep Fakes' Are Just An Updated War Of The Worlds For The Digital Era
Reflecting on Orson Welles’ infamous October 30, 1938 radio adaptation of The War of The Worlds reminds us that believable…
We Keep Forgetting That We Didn't Want Democratic Social Media
As rumblings grow for Facebook to turn back into a democracy, we would do well to reflect on the 2009-2012…
As EternalBlue Racks Up Damages It Reminds Us There Is No Such Thing As A Safe Cyber Weapon
The way in which EternalBlue has come back to wreak harm across the United States reminds us that there is…
The Web Brought Us Limitless Information But Not The Tools To Manage It
It is not book-laden shelves or digital publishing platforms that drive or destroy democracy, it is those curators that help…
The Pelosi Video: Should Social Media Ban Falsehoods Or Does Democracy Require Free Speech?
Facebook’s choice to limit the distribution of the video and warn users that it has been doctored presents the best…
WhatsApp's Massive Security Flaw Serves To Remind Us The Limits Of Consumer Encryption Apps
The existence of a now-fixed buffer overflow exploit in Facebook’s marquee encrypted communications application reminds us that despite all of…
GDPR's Massive 'Research' Exemption: Facebook And Social Science One
The European Union’s GDPR was supposed to afford EU citizens unprecedented digital privacy rights. Instead, Social Science One reminds us…
The GDELT Global Frontpage Graph (GFG): 109 Billion URLs And Half A Trillion Datapoints
GDELT's Global Frontpage Graph (GFG) launched in March of last year, crossed the 100 billion URL threshold last month. As it…
Using Deep Learning To Measure The Facial Emotion Of Television
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive…
Using AI To Tally The Top Onscreen Television Topics Via OCR And NGrams
Using Google’s off-the-shelf cloud AI algorithms to “watch” a week of television news from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive,…
WashPost: Are Americans As Interested In Impeachment As The Media Is?
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of impeachment against the backdrop of popular interest and congressional discourse. Read…
Impeachment Coverage Has Surged as Public Interest Wanes
The Democratic clamor for presidential impeachment seems to be growing by the day. The topic became front-page news again this…