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Growing concern surrounds the impact of social media platforms on public discourse1–4 and their influence on social dynamics5–9, especially in the context of toxicity10–12. Here, to better understand these phenomena, we use a comparative approach to isolate human behavioural patterns across multiple social media platforms. In particular, we analyse conversations in different online communities, focusing on identifying consistent patterns of toxic content. Drawing from an extens...

The stock has outperformed Apple over the past five years. What will the next five years look like?

If you hate your 9-5, consider working in a farm simulator game like Stardew Valley.

The future is human-centric

Decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant in a world with social media.

LiveNews Provides news reports of information as it happens in real time of politics, business, the economy and also reports on global issues and events from a New Zealand viewpoint.

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC), in partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is providing...

Inuit (short for “**In**terface **U**sability **I**nstrumen**t**”) is a new questionnaire you can use to assess the usability of your user interface. It has been designed to be more diagnostic than existing usability instruments like, e.g., SUS and for use with machine learning, all the while asking fewer questions than other questionnaires. This article explores how and why Inuit has been developed and why we can be sure that it actually measures usability, and reliably so.

Editor’s note: Basil Springer’s last column was published this month.

Editor’s note: Basil Springer’s last column was published this month.