Author: Tech Support

Pro-anorexia forums are dangerous — but they can teach us a lot about community and understanding

In recent years, a cultural movement has emerged online that takes a positive attitude toward eating disorders. So-called pro-anorexia (or, more commonly, ‘pro-ana’) organizations differ widely. Whereas the majority claim to provide a non-judgmental environment for those diagnosed with anorexia, others go further, denying that eating disorders are mental illnesses and casting them instead as

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Microsoft to end support for Cortana apps on iOS and Android in the UK, Canada, and Australia from Jan. 31; Cortana content like reminders will stop working (Anmol/MSPoweruser)

Anmol / MSPoweruser: Microsoft to end support for Cortana apps on iOS and Android in the UK, Canada, and Australia from Jan. 31; Cortana content like reminders will stop working  —  Recently there were rumours that Microsoft might be discontinuing Cortana on Android and iOS.  Now, a new support article published … Microsoft to end

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Creators say YouTube's new labeling policy for kids' content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area (The Verge)

The Verge: Creators say YouTube’s new labeling policy for kids’ content that holds creators solely accountable are murky, as some video categories fall in a gray area  —  The government could sue them for thousands of dollars  —  On Tuesday afternoon, YouTube formally announced its plan to have creators label … Creators say YouTube's new

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Speeding Up IOTA Proof Of Work Using FPGAs

Blockchain has existed as a concept since the early 1990s, but keeping a distributed ledger for IoT transactions wasn’t widely implemented until IOTA developed Tangle. The blockchain company was initially founded as a hardware startup and pivoted to work on transactional settlement for IoT. The Tangle, their distributed ledger architecture based on a directed acyclic

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Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: Facebook’s AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between 100 languages, but struggles with the limits of existing computing power  —  Facebook AI research’s latest breakthrough in natural language understanding, called XLM-R, performs cross-language tasks … Facebook's AI team details XLM-R, a natural language model which translates between

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A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn't mean the same thing to everyone (Bill Wasik/New York Times)

Bill Wasik / New York Times: A look at how the internet deviated from its sunny, American, all-devouring vision of mass empowerment, and why today it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone  —  The Internet Dream Became a Nightmare. What Will Become of It Now?  —  “Hey, everyone!” the world’s eighth-richest man said …

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