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- Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy
- Minneapolis hiring social media influencers for former police officers’ trials
- New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life
- How to watch the 2021 Golden Globes online
- Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery
- Samsung’s shiny red Galaxy Chromebook 2 is now available at Best Buy
- Disinformation experts aren’t happy about the trailer for HBO’s QAnon series
| Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy Posted: 28 Feb 2021 03:08 PM PST  A cybersecurity firm found that bots were promoting GameStop stock on social media before and after the stock's frenzied rise last month, Reuters reported. Massachusetts-based PiiQ Media says social media bots promoted Dogecoin, GameStop, and other "meme" stocks in posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. The firm estimated that tens of thousands of bots participated, but it's still unclear how much influence they had or didn't have on the rise and fall of GME and other stocks. Shares in GME skyrocketed in January as Reddit users on r/wallstreetbets rallied around the stock in an attempt to squeeze hedge funds that had bet against the video game company. PiiQ told Reuters it detected "patterns of artificial behavior" in... |
| Minneapolis hiring social media influencers for former police officers’ trials Posted: 28 Feb 2021 02:11 PM PST  Minneapolis is hiring social media influencers to share "city-generated and approved messages" during the trials of four former city police officers charged in the May 2020 killing of George Floyd, according to the Minnesota Reformer. The Minneapolis city council approved the plan on Friday, which calls for six influencers to be paid about $2,000 each to spread the city's messages with Black, Native American, Hmong, and Latino communities. The goal is to "address/dispel incorrect information" by using "trusted messengers," part of a program the city refers to as its Joint Information System to share "timely and relevant information" with the public during the trials. "Through the Communications and Neighborhood and Community Relations... |
| New AI ‘Deep Nostalgia’ brings old photos, including very old ones, to life Posted: 28 Feb 2021 12:28 PM PST  An AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia that animates still photos has become the main character on Twitter this fine Sunday, as people try to create the creepiest fake "video" possible, apparently. The Deep Nostalgia service, offered by online genealogy company MyHeritage, uses AI licensed from D-ID to create the effect that a still photo is moving. It's kinda like the iOS Live Photos feature, which adds a few seconds of video to help smartphone photographers find the best shot. But Deep Nostalgia can take photos from any camera and bring them to "life." The program uses pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and applies the one that works best for the still photo in question. Its intended purpose is to allow you to upload... |
| How to watch the 2021 Golden Globes online Posted: 28 Feb 2021 10:00 AM PST  Awards season in Hollywood begins Sunday, February 28th, with the 78th Golden Globe Awards, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Golden Globes, usually considered a harbinger of who may take home awards at other shows like the Oscars, will look a bit different this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. The hosts and presenters will be in different locations in the US and around the world. Streaming services have finally come into their own at the Globes, with Netflix leading the pack of with 20 total nominations for its television shows; Hulu has six total nominations, Apple TV Plus has two, and Disney Plus has one. In the motion picture categories (the Globes honor films and TV shows), Netflix leads the way with 22... |
| Verizon support says you should turn off 5G to save your phone’s battery Posted: 28 Feb 2021 09:23 AM PST  Despite its relentless promotion of 5G phones and the fact that it spent more than $45 billion bidding on a new faster spectrum, Verizon support now is advising people on Twitter to turn off their phones' 5G access to preserve battery life. In a Sunday morning tweet, Verizon support helpfully suggested that "one way to help conserve battery life is to turn on LTE" if users found their batteries were "draining faster than normal." That step would, of course, turn off 5G in a phone that has it available. It's also worth pointing out that you don't actually "turn on LTE" when doing this step — LTE is always enabled as a fallback for the 5G network. But Verizon is obviously being cautious so as not to actually tell its customers to "turn... |
| Samsung’s shiny red Galaxy Chromebook 2 is now available at Best Buy Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:28 AM PST  Samsung's latest Chrome OS laptop, the Galaxy Chromebook 2, is now available for purchase at Best Buy. The Chromebook 2 was first announced at CES in January and features a new QLED display, 360-degree hinge, and a striking red paint job. It starts at $549.99 for a Celeron model and goes up to $699.99 for a Core i3 version, putting it at the higher end of Chromebooks. That price is the most significant thing about the Chromebook 2 because it's considerably less than the Galaxy Chromebook that debuted a year ago. The older Chromebook had an 4K OLED screen and came with a stylus — neither of which you'll fine with the new model — but it also cost just under $1,000 when it came out. In our review, we found despite the gorgeous screen and... |
| Disinformation experts aren’t happy about the trailer for HBO’s QAnon series Posted: 28 Feb 2021 06:05 AM PST  The teaser video for Q: Into the Storm, an upcoming documentary series from HBO about the QAnon conspiracy movement has a lot of deplatforming experts concerned; it looks more like a preview for a spy thriller than a careful examination of the umbrella group of conspiracy theories. The breathless tone might be effective at building hype, but it has many disinformation experts concerned. Ben Collins, one of the leading journalists covering online radicalization, tweeted that the trailer was "being marketed in a way that could recruit more people." Promoted by HBO as a series that "charts a labyrinthine journey to unmask the mastermind behind QAnon," critics pointed out that the trailer felt a lot like "a recruitment video for Q."
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