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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

GeekWire

But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Video conferencing numbers demonstrate the reality. I certainly wouldn’t have.

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Good internet service is still a luxury in the US

Vox

Broadband has become increasingly important for everything from how we work to how we socialize to how we pray. Just over half of Americans making less than $30,000 a year have home broadband, a service that’s increasingly important for numerous aspects of life, from school to work to socializing. It’s also seemingly a luxury good.

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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began , according to the company.

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Where Video Analytics Falls Into Your Big Data Strategy: 5 Use Cases

CTOvision

Big data analytics has become so popular that other types of analytics have branched off from -- things like social analytics, predictive analytics, and more. One area that is receiving a great deal of attention is video analytics. Perhaps the most common use of video analytics happens in regard to surveillance and security.

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A teenager on TikTok disrupted thousands of scientific studies with a single video

The Verge

Researchers were caught by surprise after a short video sent a flood of new users to a survey platform Thousands of scientific studies had to toss out weeks of data because of a 56-second TikTok video by a teenager. The July 23rd video is short and simple. That video got 4.1 Doing science on the internet.

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The internet peaked with “the dress,” and then it unraveled

Vox

If you were on the internet on February 26, 2015, you saw The Dress. Looking back, the posting of “the dress” represented the high-water mark of “fun” on the mid-2010s internet. Back then, the whole media ecosystem was built around social sharing of viral stories. It also fostered an internet monoculture.

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Markable.AI launches $100M ad fund for creators on Instagram, TikTok and other social platforms

GeekWire

offers a workflow automation and advertising platform for social creators. The social media platform had been testing a beta integration of Markable’s AI technology to automatically recognize items in images and videos and recommend similar products for users to purchase. Weibo decided to drop the integration as a result.

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