A remedy for the spread of false news?
Study: On social media, most people do care about accurate news but need reminders not to spread misinformation.
Study: On social media, most people do care about accurate news but need reminders not to spread misinformation.
Study uncovers overlooked environmental impacts of internet use by estimating associated carbon, land, and water footprints.
Twitter experiment shows clear self-selection into social media “echo chambers” due to political preferences.
New website from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality rewrites an important moment in history to educate the public on the dangers of deepfakes.
Study finds social media sharing affects news judgment, but a quick exercise reduces the problem.
Mathematician and CEO of web services company Akamai looks ahead to how the pandemic-driven shift to remote working might change society.
Congestion control system could help streaming video, mobile games, and other applications run more smoothly.
Study finds disclaimers on some false news stories make people more readily believe other false stories.
Text-generating tool pinpoints and replaces specific information in sentences while retaining humanlike grammar and style.
External system improves phones’ signal strength 1,000 percent, without requiring extra antennas.
Modeling web traffic could aid cybersecurity, computing infrastructure design, Internet policy, and more.
Model from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory identifies “serial hijackers” of internet IP addresses.
Connected devices can now share position information, even in noisy, GPS-denied areas.
MIT system “learns” how to optimally allocate workloads across thousands of servers to cut costs, save energy.
“Risk-aware” traffic engineering could help service providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google better utilize network infrastructure.