Trolls are part of online life, but this new CAPTCHA pre-screens your commenters or other contacts for empathy as well as basic humanity.
Intellectual Ventures has spent over $1.2 billion on at least 1,000 patent acquisitions, reportedly buying patents for an average $40,000 from companies, individuals, and up to 50 universities, including CalTech, Duke, Clemson, Brigham Young, Rutgers, and my alma mater, the University of British Columbia.
Companies that create or acquire portfolios of patents but produce no products with them cost the US economy $29 billion last year.
At least, that’s what a study completed by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer of Boston University recently …
Trollism is a very real problem on the web, and Facebook just took part in a landmark case to shed light on the identities of trolls who do real harm.
A 45-year-old woman named Nicola Brookes (pictured above) brought the …
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Arizona is considering a new law that would criminalize Internet trolling, and I fully support the idea.
First, let’s take a look at the hard news. Arizona House Bill 2549, which has already passed both the Arizona House of Representatives …
Google has added the ability to ignore specific user accounts and strengthened its option to block accounts on its new social network Google+, the company announced in a note Friday.
The new ignore feature should help calm down the often …
