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Tech Talk: Liar, Liar, Your Pants Are on Fire!
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Tech Talk: Liar, Liar, Your Pants Are on Fire!

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Tech Talk: Thought Bubbles
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Tech Talk: Thought Bubbles

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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Why “AI” Really Isn’t

Why “AI” Really Isn’t

There’s an awful lot of guff, cant and nonsense spouted around the topic of “artificial intelligence” and “consciousness”, most of the product of ignorant journalists and over-excitable computer geeks. Elon Musk may be onto something when he warns us to throttle back on the spread of AI, but it’

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Big Tech Admits to Censoring True Information

Big Tech Admits to Censoring True Information

Paiten Iselin newsbusters.org Paiten Iselin is a researcher and video creator in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Liberty University, earning a B.S. in Strategic Communication: Social Media Management. Prior to that, she was an actress, voice over artist,

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3D Printing Promises to Transform Architecture Forever

James Rose Director of the Institute for Smart Structures University of Tennessee In architecture, new materials rarely emerge. For centuries, wood, masonry and concrete formed the basis for most structures on Earth. In the 1880s, the adoption of the steel frame changed architecture forever. Steel allowed architects to design taller

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Tech Talk: Speech Bubbles
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Tech Talk: Speech Bubbles

This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in

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The Threat of Big Tech Govt Censorship

The Threat of Big Tech Govt Censorship

Autumn Johnson Contributing Writer newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. A federal court judge warned that the threat of future Big Tech

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Study Finds ChatGPT Is Leftist

Study Finds ChatGPT Is Leftist

Heather Moon newsbusters.org Heather Moon is a Senior Researcher for the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America. She previously wrote for The Resurgent. She has a master’s degree in Public Policy from Liberty University, as well as a master’s of Library Science from Texas Woman’s

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Is Wikipedia a Good Source?

Is Wikipedia a Good Source?

Bridget Retzloff, Assistant Professor and Digital Pedagogy Librarian Katy Kelly, Professor of Marketing and Engagement University of Dayton What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic, followed by another topic and then another. Or maybe you’

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AI-Powered Cameras Are Helping to Catch Poachers

Adam Houser cfact.org Adam Houser coordinates student leaders as National Director of CFACT’s collegians’ program and writes on issues of climate and energy. For conservationists in Africa, poaching is problem number one. And while improvements have been made over the years in monitoring poaching activities on protected land,

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Church going Christians made to Register on Chinese Govt App

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg Staff Writer/Researcher newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became

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Home Filmmaker Motivated by People Enjoying His Work

Home Filmmaker Motivated by People Enjoying His Work

Good News Network goodnewsnetwork.org A home filmmaker has created incredible stop-motion miniature chase scenes using Hot-Wheels toy cars. Director and producer Paul Greer spent six months creating his first stop-motion film in 2013. Stop-motion films are made by taking an image of a scene, before slightly changing the position

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What Musk Is Not Telling You about Twitter Censorship

What Musk Is Not Telling You about Twitter Censorship

Robert Kogon brownstone.org Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely-published financial journalist, a translator, and researcher working in Europe. Follow him at Twitter here. He writes at edv1694.substack.com. The “Twitter Files” have exposed numerous contacts between US government officials and Twitter and requests for suppression

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ChatGPT Confuses AI Text Detecting Tools

ChatGPT Confuses AI Text Detecting Tools

Armin Alimardani Lecturer, University of Wollongong Emma A. Jane Associate Professor UNSW Sydney As the “chatbot wars” rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many baffled. Educators in particular are scrambling to adjust to the availability of

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