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The experience of watching the NBA Draft will be a bit different this year. In the past, news-breakers sharing picks on social media in advance of the actual selection was widely expected, with social media often several selections ahead of the television broadcast. But ahead of this year’s draft,

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Social media are among the primary sources of news in the U.S. and across the world. Yet users are exposed to content of questionable accuracy, including conspiracy theories, clickbait, hyperpartisan content, pseudo science and even fabricated “fake news” reports.

I once briefly dated a guy whose entire Twitter feed was about biking. He spent his day posting links to cycling routes, talking about his bike, communicating with other biking enthusiasts, advocating for cyclist safety efforts, and putting up photos of cars obstructing bike paths. All of

At E3 2016, when the Xbox One X was known as Project Scorpio, Microsoft waxed eloquent on the use of VR for its souped up Xbox One iteration. Fast forward to E3 2018 and we’ve seen Microsoft focus on games and the delivery of them with services like Xbox Game Pass. Virtual

Not just gaming or entertainment, virtual reality (VR) can also help people recall information better as opposed to desktop computers, say researchers including one of Indian-origin. The team from University of Maryland conducted in-depth analyses on whether people learn better through virtual, immersive environments, as opposed to more traditional

Garmin has launched Vivoactive 3 Music, a wearable that takes everything you find in the 2017 model and adds music to the mix. Garmin already has smartwatches that come with GPS and music playback, in its lineup. But for the first time, the features are available on an affordable smartwatch. The

Although blockchain-native software is in its infancy, the technology is racing ahead to meet more and more use cases. But the community doesn’t seem to have taken software security principles seriously, as we can see from the recent scan of Ethereum smart contracts that identified 34,200 vulnerable

Senzing, a new artificial intelligence-based (AI) software company, today announced its Senzing software product to address the $14.37 billion financial fraud market. Senzing is an IBM spinout that has reinvented entity resolution, which senses who is who in real time across multiple big data sources. Senzing is disrupting

Baidu’s AI researchers have built an algorithm that can spot cancerous tumors in breast tissue using a method that doesn’t rely solely on neural networks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel at pattern matching, and thus are useful at detecting potential clusters of cancerous cells in medical scans.

Microsoft Office 365 – The Ins and Outs With some significant changes in recent years, including a switch to a subscription-based offering, Microsoft Office 365 is rapidly evolving. Check out how the software has evolved and what the future has in store for it. How can this