Since the launch of the first social networking site, SixDegrees.com, in 1997, social network adoption has grown exponentially. By January 2023, more than 4.76 billion people worldwide were using social networks, according to DataReportal statistics. The number of social network users continues to...
from Big Tech marketers in chief like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella to edgelords of industry like Elon Musk and Altman to celebrity computer scientists likeGeoffrey Hinton. Sometimes these boosters and doomers are one and the same, telling us that thetechnology is so good it’s bad. ...
Computer forensics is the application of investigation and analysis techniques to gather and preserve evidence from a particular computing device in a way that is suitable for presentation in a court of law. The goal of computer forensics is to perform a structured investigation and maintain a docum...
In this scheme, the scammer has collected the individual's banking credentials. Further, by visiting the fraudulent banking site, the individual may have unknowingly downloaded malware to her computer, which will be tracking and collecting other data and sending it to the scammer. ...
Today the Internet offers new, improved forms of cooperation with the crowd. The obvious benefit is the speed with which the crowd of users can be activated in the Web. Platforms such as Wikipedia pool the knowledge of all participating users; on WikiLeaks anonymous whistleblowers disclosed secre...
Artificial intelligence refers to computer systems capable of performing tasks that are typically thought to require human intelligence.
The question is interesting in its own right and also important for understanding the two things that are brought together in the question, technology and ethics. Focusing on computer technology, the question is answered here first by examining the language used to introduce computer ethical issues ...
In the 1980s, the advent of email brought with it phishing scams (remember the Nigerian prince?) and malware delivered through attachments. By the 1990s, web browsers had become commonplace, along with computer viruses. The widespread adoption of social media in the 2000s only increased cybercrim...
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A computer system that has achieved artificial super intelligence would have the ability to outperform humans in almost every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills. Machine learning Machine learning is a process that computer systems follow to achieve artificial intell...