EU threatens tougher rules on hate speech after Facebook meeting
BRUSSELS: A top EU official for digital policy warned Monday that big tech companies could face tougher rules and penalties in Europe if they failed…
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Top 15 Best Speech To Text Apps For Android
Voice to text apps are underrated, but they are quite useful, especially for college students and busy professionals. Voice to text apps can be…
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Hate Speech: ‘You Have No Place on Our Platform’ | Mac
Apple CEO Tim Cook this afternoon accepted the Anti-Defamation League’s inaugural Courage Against Hate Award at the Never is Now Summit on…
Orwell was right: free speech is important but it is not enough | Social Media
It’s been an eventful week for what we used to call truth. The Saudi government has finally admitted that Jamal Khashoggi has been killed, although…
Reddit CEO talks fending off Russians and limits of free speech | Innovation
Reddit, the fifth-most visited U.S. website, according to theanalytics firm Alexa, has been on the offensive against suspicious accounts linked to…
Malta’s Prime Minister Hails Crypto as ‘Future of Money’ in UN Speech | Crypto
Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, has used his platform at the U.N. to speak out on the potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency, calling them…
Facebook Is ‘a Toilet,’ Fails to Contain Hate Speech in Myanmar | Social Media
On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver examined Facebook’s failed efforts to control hate speech in Myanmar – from inept banning practices to…
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once | Robotics
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an…
Machine-learning system tackles speech and object recognition, all at once | Artificial intelligence
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an…
Detectors for online hate speech can be easily duped by humans, study shows | Computing
How Google Perspective rates a comment otherwise deemed toxic after some inserted typos and a little love. Credit: Aalto University
Hateful text…