In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Who really inherits your digital legacy when you die?
Many people will accumulate vast digital libraries in their lifetimes. The ease of buying titles from Amazon, iBooks and iTunes has meant more people…
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It has been said that “the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time”, and this rings true for Big…
Art in the age of digital reproduction: liberating or cheapening?
Walter Benjamin famously wrote in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction that “even the most perfect reproduction of a work…
Could AR drones be the future of journalism?
We’ve all read stories about how remote control drones have been used in war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some of us may even know…
