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California Law Bans Bots from Pretending to be Real People

California has passed a law that went into effect on July 1, 2019. It amends part of the state's existing Business and Professions Code. The purpose of the amendment is to require bots to make it clear that they are not a human. The “Bots: disclosure” amendment includes the following: It shall be unlawful for any person to use a

All of Your New Twitter Friends are Probably Bots

Social media is becoming less useful by the day. Nowhere is this more evident than on Twitter. The so-called microblogging service may still serve as an of-the-moment cultural barometer. But what good is that barometer if the gauge it's built on is fundamentally broken? Twitter's ability to give us nearly realtime data on trending topics is only really worthwhile if

GNC-2009-11-10 #526 Soap Box Time!

Huge thanks to all the listeners that did Podcast Awards reviews. I get on my soap box tonight about hate mail I have received in regards to my State of the Podcast Sphere simply amazing. Lots of tech to talk about tonight. Want your feedback on the videos in the first two articles along with your personal thoughts on the

GNC-2009-08-24 #505 Live from Silicon Valley

Ok meetup on Wednesday will be at 6:30pm at On the Border, in Milpitas (Hwy 880 and Hwy 237) see map link below all are welcome to attend. Please RSVP ASAP to geeknews@gmail.com Bandwidth is fantastic here at the Hilton in San Jose at the convention center 5 stars some other hotels could take some lessons from these folks. You