Social Media Edward Boyden named inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology | Social Aug 11, 2018 Edward S. Boyden, a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and the Media Lab, and an associate professor of brain and cognitive…
Digital Marketing Best Practices for Choosing Effective & Captivating Social Media Visuals Aug 11, 2018 For both B2B and B2C brands, social media marketing has become an age-old tactic by now. And it’s no surprise. Despite working 8 hours a day and…
Social Media Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories | Social Aug 11, 2018 A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does — and by a…
Social Media Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award | Social Aug 11, 2018 Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT has been named a recipient of the 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award — Canada’s…
Social Media Duo Security researchers’ Twitter ‘bot or not’ study unearths crypto botnet | Social Aug 11, 2018 A team of researchers at Duo Security has unearthed a sophisticated botnet operating on Twitter — and being used to spread a cryptocurrency scam. The…
Social Media Facebook Dating will be a feature, not an app; here’s a peek | Social Aug 11, 2018 Facebook Dating doesn’t plan to launch a standalone dating app, which should temper expectations about how deeply it’s diving into Tinder and Match…
Tech News update Depth-sensing imaging system can peer through fog | Social Aug 11, 2018 MIT researchers have developed a system that can produce images of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it. It can…
Tech News update What the Facebook Crypto team could build | Social Aug 11, 2018 Facebook is invading the blockchain, but how? Back in May, Facebook formed a cryptocurrency team to explore the possibilities, and today it removed…
Social Media Facebook redesigns biz Pages for utility as feed reach declines | Social Aug 11, 2018 An unescapable fact of Facebook’s ubiquity is that as more Pages and people compete for limited News Feed attention, the percentage of a business’…
Tech News update Measuring the economy with location data | Social Aug 11, 2018 Carrying your smartphone around everywhere has become a way of life. In doing so, you produce a surprising amount of data about your role in the…