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The game theoretical framework. The structure of a social network evolves following simple rules of a game. (a) At each step of the game, the individuals forming part of the network (like the red woman in the picture) have to decide whether to stay with the neighborhood formed by their actual friends or to change to another neighborhood formed by potential new friends. The current and new neighborhoods may overlap (in our picture, the blue man and the…

These days, most ISPs have some sort of data cap on their service. Some of them keep the data cap so high that you’d almost never hit it. While others keep it pretty low, to charge you overages. Now, the FCC is getting involved. The Federal Communications Commission chairperson Jessica Rosenworcel is wanting to open a formal Notice of Inquiry into the impact of internet data caps on consumers. This is according to a new FCC document. Which means that it hasn’t yet started the investigation, but it’s only a matter of…

PGA TOUR logo is seen during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines South on January 29, 2021 in San Diego, California.Ben Jared | Pga Tour | Getty ImagesThe Justice Department's Antitrust Division has informed the PGA Tour it will review the organization's proposed merger with Saudi-funded LIV Golf, a source told NBC News.The Justice Department declined to comment. CNBC has reached out to the PGA Tour and LIV for comment.The announcement of the deal last week immediately triggered antitrust…

Big, shiny eyes. Towering nearly 10 feet tall. 100% not human. Aliens.That’s the 911 call that came into dispatchers last month from a Las Vegas area resident reporting extraterrestrial life in his backyard, just about an hour after local police witnessed an object falling from the sky.The paranormal investigation by police did not turn up any answers.“On May 1, 2023, at approximately 12:29 a.m. LVMPD dispatch received a call about a suspicious situation,” the Las Vegas Police Department said in an email statement.…

California State University officials were notified about reports accusing the Fullerton campus president of inappropriately touching students but never launched an investigation, according to internal records and statements. The first report, made in August 2019 to the Cal State Fullerton campus, accused President Framroze “Fram” Virjee of hugging a student and kissing her forehead, making “her feel very uncomfortable.”Two other reports, also made to the campus, involved separate incidents while Virjee gave a tour of…

NEW YORK —  California and New York attorneys general announced Thursday they are beginning an investigation into the National Football League, focusing on claims of workplace discrimination and a hostile environment more than a year after dozens of former female employees disclosed negative experiences working within the organization.The probe will examine allegations of gender pay disparities, harassment and gender and race discrimination in potential violation of state and federal laws, according to a joint statement…

Is your employer monitoring your mouse clicks, keystrokes, or webcam? What about your location or pace of work? If so, the White House wants to hear from you—from the confines of your digitally enabled professional panopticon.Should Facial Recognition Technology be Banned? | Future TechOn this fine May Day (a.k.a. International Workers’ Day), the Biden Administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a public request for information (RFI) regarding worker surveillance and all the various ways…

Natural-color images of Tunulliarfik Fjord captured on March 13, 2023, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9.Paths that cut across the still-frozen Tunulliarfik Fjord in southern Greenland were likely made by people.Images from Landsat 9’s OLI-2 captured in March 2023 reveal long, straight lines on southern Greenland’s Tunulliarfik Fjord, likely created by people using vehicles such as snowmobiles for travel or hunting.Greenland lacks an obvious human fingerprint when viewed from space. Instead of…

 The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has joined the chorus of concern about ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots, calling on EU consumer protection agencies to investigate the technology and the potential harm to individuals.The growing popularity of Microsoft-backed Open AI's ChatGPT, which can mimic humans and create text and images based on prompts, has spurred others such as Alphabet's Google, Amazon's cloud division AWS and Meta Platforms to announce similar tools. BEUC, the umbrella group for 46…

The lobby group said content produced by the chatbots which appears true and reliable but is often factually incorrect, can mislead consumers and also result in deceptive advertisingThe European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has joined the chorus of concerns about ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots, calling on EU consumer protection agencies to investigate the technology and the potential harm to individuals. The growing popularity of Microsoft-backed Open AI's ChatGPT, which can mimic humans and create…