If You’re Trying To Join ISIS Through Twitter, The FBI Probably Knows About It

WASHINGTON — Twitter has been “very cooperative” with FBI agents looking into individuals affiliated with the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations that use the social network to organize and inspire people within the U.S. to commit terrorist acts, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. Comey said many terrorist recruits first interact with overseas terrorists on Twitter. Affidavits filed by

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Facebook Knows Your Face Even When It’s Not Visible

If you’re worried about facial recognition technology tracking you, you’re not going to like this. NewScientist reported Monday that Facebook has developed an experimental algorithm that can automatically recognize an individual based on unique traits like “hairdo, clothing, body shape and pose.” According to NewScientist, the algorithm proved accurate 83 percent of the time when Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers applied

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#BeyoncéAlwaysOnBeat Hashtag Proves Queen Bey’s Dancing Knows No Bounds

Beyoncé’s moves are so on point that a video of Queen Bey dancing can be paired with pretty much any song and still sync with the beat. Twitter user Kendall Gaines, who tweets under the handle @MascotMY_Tweets, started the hashtag #BeyoncéAlwaysOnBeat over the weekend when he shared a mashup Vine of a clip from Beyoncé’s “***Flawless” music video with a

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Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Therapist

Who knows you better than anyone? Facebook, of course. In a recent study of more than 17,000 Facebook users, researchers compared the results of a personality survey completed by study participants’ family and friends to a computer analysis of the participants’ Facebook likes. The computer blew family and friends out of the water. After 10 likes, the computer could better

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#AliveWhileBlack Highlights The Ugly Discrimination Black America Knows Too Well

Protests spread around the country Wednesday night after a grand jury decided not to bring charges in the July death of Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man who died when a police officer placed him in a chokehold. The non-indictment came just over a week after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, for

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