ABSTRACT: Artisanal and small-scale (ASM) gold mining activities contribute to the livelihoods of about 200,000 miners and their dependents in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the ...

Have you been harmed by a social media algorithm? If so, U.S. Sen. John Curtis wants to let you sue. The Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced Tuesday by Curtis and co-sponsored by Arizona Democrat ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

The “destroyed data” included the company’s app code as well as user data in the form of names, mailing addresses and payment details, on its servers The incident came to light on May 26 after ...

Nationwide Building Society has shed light on significant changes to some of its savings accounts. The clarification came after a customer reached out via social media, puzzled by the receipt of a new ...

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or does an algorithm ...

Quick Share recently implemented support for sharing via QR code. Right now, you have to tap a button to manually request a QR code before sharing. Google is testing a change to the Quick Share ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. Computer scientists often ...

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Google is rolling out QR code-based sharing for Quick Share. Once another Android device scans your QR code, you can send your files to that device. The feature is available with version 24.49.33 of ...