We’ve previously written about attacks and killings in India spurred on by false and incendiary information spread on WhatsApp. Falsified content and profiles have posed a massive problem on Facebook, particularly in the United States, but other countries have seen similar negative ramifications from fake stories spread on the Facebook subsidiary. Now, it seems the […]
Video games provide a chance to witness artificial intelligence (AI) craft characters and the dynamic systems that create the worlds within which we play. Much like when a good movie suspends the viewer’s disbelief, effective usage of AI in video games becomes imperceptible as the players immerse in the experience. Bots turn into characters, and […]
If you play video games, you’ve probably heard of Fortnite. The free-to-play arena battler has been an absolute sensation since its launch a year ago, and by June of this year it had already grossed a billion dollars. Over the summer, Fortnite set revenue records that may not be easily surpassed, as its $318 million […]
Apple became the first* company worth $1 trillion on August 2, 2018. That’s an incredible number, isn’t it? Forget a trillion dollars; most of us would simply love to be millionaires. That’s not too much to ask, right? There are 36 million millionaires in the world today, and about 15.4 million of them live in […]
Do you know how much sales tax Amazon has helped Americans avoid since Jeff Bezos started it in his garage in 1994? $20.4 billion In truth, it’s certainly more than that. That eye-popping figure is a straightforward calculation from Dean Baker and Evan Butcher of CEPR, the Center for Economic Policy Research. They figured it […]
It’s refreshing to see a couple major players in the social media sphere attempt to make amends for their egregious mistakes, even if that atonement comes way, way later than it should have. The errors in question are Snapchat’s recent and massively unpopular redesign and YouTube’s algorithm allowing highly inappropriate videos into their app for […]