• Video gaming can benefit mental health, find Oxford academics | Games | The Guardian

  “Playing video games can be good for your mental health, a study from Oxford University has suggested, following a breakthrough collaboration in which academics at the university worked with actual gameplay data for the first time.”

  Tags: ITGS, games, people and machines, addiction, video games

  • – By dr tech

• Solomon Islands government preparing to ban Facebook | Facebook | The Guardian

  “The Solomon Islands government is preparing to ban Facebook – an attempt, it says, to limit “abusive language” and “character assassination” but which critics argue is an attempt to curtail criticism of the government.
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  Tags: ITGS, politics and government, facebook, globalisation and cultural diversity, censorship, fake news, disinformation

  • – By dr tech

• Why Do I Think There Will be Hundreds of Billions of TinyML Devices Within a Few Years? « Pete Warden’s blog

  “I gave a talk on “What TinyML Needs from Hardware“, and afterwards one of the attendees emailed to ask where some of my numbers came from. In particular, he was intrigued by my note on slide 6 that “Expectations are for tens or hundreds of billions of devices over the next few years“”

  Tags: ITGS, machine learning, embedded, peopleandmachines, ai

  • – By dr tech

• Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS in Android Messages beta – The Verge

  X to doubt

  Tags: itgs, privacy, encryption, google

  • – By circuititgs

• Facebook has put warning labels on 180 million posts since March

  “”We have evidence that applying these informs to posts decreases their reshares by ~8%,” a Facebook data scientist told BuzzFeed. “However given that Trump has SO many shares on any given post, the decrease is not going to change shares by orders of magnitude.””

  Tags: ITGS, misinformation, facebook, social media, labels, solutions

  • – By dr tech

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