Safiyya was sound asleep at her parents’ apartment when the unthinkable happened. It was almost midnight on a Monday last September, and her phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. She got out of bed and went ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

Content moderators are the front-line workers of the internet: the people who remove traumatic content from social media platforms and AI datasets. I’ve been writing about them for a long time — ...

A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact checkers and rolling back much of its proactive content moderation, the company says it will further "transform" its approach by drastically ...

Discord is delaying its age verification rollout after significant backlash from users over privacy fears. While it still plans to implement mandatory age checks for all its users, the popular voice ...

Co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy addressed misgivings about Discord's age verification system in a blog posted on Tuesday, attempting to reassure worried users. "In hindsight, we should have provided ...

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see. Other things can’t be seen, but you believe ...

Watch as I humorously critique Discord users and moderators while being one myself. Pune techie dies by suicide in office washroom using mobile charger Want to increase B12 levels naturally? Here are ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

A half-hour into my dinner at Cellar Door Provisions with seven strangers from the Chicago Food Subreddit dining club, we were dividing up pearlescent slabs of kampachi crudo in golden tomatillo leche ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

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