Good morning! Just a quick post to let you guys know we’re migrating to another host. The last 2 weeks have been hard on my sanity, and after countless hours of work and very little sleep, I got up a few days ago and thought… that’s enough! So yeah, please be patient if things are […]
Banning TikTok could unintentionally pose a cybersecurity risk. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Robert Olson, Rochester Institute of Technology TikTok is not be the first app to be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it is the first widely used app that the U.S. government has proposed banning over privacy and […]
Cloning someone’s voice is easier than ever. D-Keine/iStock via Getty Images Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology and Christopher Schwartz, Rochester Institute of Technology You have just returned home after a long day at work and are about to sit down for dinner when suddenly your phone starts buzzing. On the other end is a […]
Chuan Chuan/Shutterstock Mackenzie Graham, University of Oxford “ChatGPT is a natural language generation platform based on the OpenAI GPT-3 language model.” Why did you believe the above statement? A simple answer is that you trust the author of this article (or perhaps the editor). We cannot verify everything we are told, so we regularly trust […]
A timeline of the most visited websites on the Internet from 1995 to 2023. Worldwide data based on websites traffic measured by monthly visits or sessions. Included both desktop and mobile sites visits. A visit is defined as a visit to a website where at least one page has been loaded. Data source: media benchmark […]
For today’s edition of “Deal of the Day,” here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts (as an Amazon associate or a member of other affiliate programs.) –The Complete […]
Timeline of the most popular social networks from 2003 to 2022. Measured by monthly active users worldwide. [Data Is Beautiful]
Twitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal. Brian C. Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing or […]
Dear ladies and gentlegeeks, I’m now on Mastodon. For those interested, you can follow Geeks are Sexy at this link > https://mastodon.social/@geeksaresexy Planning on posting a lot of cosplay pics there, so it’s going to be fun! Come say hi! 😊
The turmoil inside Twitter headquarters is sparking discussion of a mass exodus of users. What will happen if there is a rush to the exits? Photo: Kevin Krejci (CC BY 2.0) Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on […]