The UK government reportedly will “encourage” Apple and Google to prevent phones from displaying nude images except when users verify that they are adults. The forthcoming push for nudity-blocking ...

The UK government wants technology companies to block explicit images on phones and computers by default to protect children, with adults having to verify their age to create and access such content.

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

The HHS says it will commit new resources to targeting and punishing providers, health IT companies and other groups found information blocking, though the pledge is scarce on details. The impending ...

The department said it plans to hold providers and IT developers accountable for limiting the use and exchange of electronic health information. The Department of Health and Human Services announced ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it will increase enforcement against healthcare organizations that block access to electronic health information, citing the need to improve ...

The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS') investigation unit and health IT offices are stepping up enforcement of information blocking committed by providers, health IT developers and health ...

Abstract: Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC ...

A federal judge at Albany has ruled that New York’s rule banning residents of other states from applying for licenses to carry firearms in the state is unconstitutional. In Higbie v James, a United ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...