Last September, two former National Football League players launched an app called Politiscope to track the voting records of members of Congress and the bills that they were introducing — and provide non-partisan information about what those bills and votes would mean to voters. The pro-football-playing brothers, Walter Powell Jr. and Brandon Williams, launched the […]
View More Politiscope, an app to track Congressional voting records and bills, launches on android devicesCategory: Pew Research Center
Most Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew finds
A study by the Pew Research Center suggests most Facebook users are still in the dark about how the company tracks and profiles them for ad-targeting purposes. Pew found three-quarters (74%) of Facebook users did not know the social networking behemoth maintains a list of their interests and traits to target them with ads, only […]
View More Most Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew findsBots Distorted the 2016 Election. Will the Midterms Be a Sequel?
Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staff for cybersecurity operations under President George W. Bush. The fact that Russian-linked bots penetrated social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election has […]
View More Bots Distorted the 2016 Election. Will the Midterms Be a Sequel?As elections loom, companies weigh the benefits of civic time off
With the mid-term elections looming, the pressure across all parties and organizations to get people to the polls is more prevalent than ever before. Yet, as the number of eligible voters increases, we continue to see some of the lowest voter turnout in our nation’s history, with only half of eligible voters showing up to the polls in the 2014 election.
View More As elections loom, companies weigh the benefits of civic time offHow smartphone apps could help keep health records accurate
Suppose the next time you go to a new doctor’s office, you wouldn’t have to balance a clipboard on your knee, write down your whole medical history, remember the five-syllable name of every medication you’re taking and list all your allergies.
View More How smartphone apps could help keep health records accurateApple’s iBooks revamp, Apple Books, is here
Apple’s new and improved iBooks app, now called Apple Books, has popped up on iPhones across the world today with the release of iOS 12, the software update available to download as of this morning. The new app has five tabs: Reading Now, Library, Book Store, Search and, for the first time, a dedicated Audiobooks tab. […]
View More Apple’s iBooks revamp, Apple Books, is hereAmericans’ relationship status with Facebook: ‘It’s Complicated’
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For a majority of American users, Facebook is now in the doghouse.
A new study from Pew Research found that 74 percent of American users have taken one of three actions to change the way they interact with Facebook in the past year.
According to the study, 54 percent of American users have adjusted their privacy settings, 42 percent have taken a break from checking their accounts for a few weeks, and 26 percent have deleted the app from their phones; 74 percent have taken at least one of these actions.
NEW: Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook https://t.co/xkbIv0qCvK
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View More Americans’ relationship status with Facebook: ‘It’s Complicated’Facebook users becoming more cautious and critical, says Pew
Ahead of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifying before Congress later today, where she will be questioned alongside Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as US lawmakers wrestle with how to regulate social media platforms (and even just to get bums on seats, given Google’s Larry Page declined to attend), the Pew Research Center has published new research suggesting […]
View More Facebook users becoming more cautious and critical, says PewAmericans aren’t sold on the idea of sending astronauts back to the moon
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Interest in the final frontier isn’t going anywhere.
Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 2,500 American adults, revealing that 70 percent of Americans believe it’s essential for the United States to be at the forefront of space exploration.
However, when put up against some of NASA’s other initiatives, like keeping track of our changing climate, Americans believe that human space exploration should be taking a back seat.
In fact, of the nine ways people think NASA should be utilizing its resources, anything related to physically exploring space received very little attention. Only 19 percent of those surveyed think traveling to Mars should be a “top priority” and even fewer, at 13 percent, think sending astronauts back to the moon should be a top priority. Read more…
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View More Americans aren’t sold on the idea of sending astronauts back to the moonBots on Twitter share two-thirds of links to popular websites: Pew
It’s official: Bots are doing a lot of PR grunt work on Twitter — especially when it comes to promoting porn websites. That perhaps unsurprising conclusion about what automated Twitter accounts are link sharing comes courtesy of a new study by the Pew Research Center which set out to quantify one aspect of bot-based activity in […]
View More Bots on Twitter share two-thirds of links to popular websites: Pew