Communicating science and technology is essential for the public to understand and engage in a rapidly changing world. Tweetorials are an emerging phenomenon where experts explain STEM topics on social media in creative and engaging ways. However, STEM experts struggle to write an engaging "hook" in the first tweet that captures the reader's attention. We propose methods to use large language models (LLMs) to help users scaffold their process of writing a relatable hook for complex scientific topics. We demonstrate that LLMs can help writers find everyday experiences that are relatable and interesting to the public, avoid jargon, and spark curiosity. Our evaluation shows that the system reduces cognitive load and helps people write better hooks. Lastly, we discuss the importance of interactivity with LLMs to preserve the correctness, effectiveness, and authenticity of the writing.

Everyone is looking for a way to slash their heating bills amid soaring energy prices and the deepening cost-of-living crisis. Now, a British start-up has come up with a new way of doing so using a method that may seem a little bizarre to some -- by fitting a computer server to a household's hot water tank. Heata claims its shoebox-sized device could help Britons save around £150 a year on their energy bills, while small companies can also make use of the computer power available on the servers rather than them being in a large data centre. As the computer gets hot, the tank takes waste heat away from it and uses this to warm water for showers, baths and washing up. Each unit can deliver up to 4.8kWh of hot water per day, the company says -- approximately 80 per cent of the hot water required in an average UK household. As many people will know, laptops and computers can get very hot when running for long periods, with internal fans used to cool them down.

Chromebooks are fantastic PCs for people who just need the basics and a computer that doesn't require a lot of maintenace. Because of that philosophy, a Chromebook is already an ultra-secure computer straight out of the box. But you can always do more, particularly if you want to minimize traces of your internet wanderings, or prevent your every online action from contributing to an advertising profile. You may share a Chromebook with others or desire a setup that's protected against the latest security threats. Perhaps it's time for a little de-Googling in your life, as the giant from Mountain View can collect a lot of information about you.

Podcast host John Koetsier sat down for an interview with Cujo AI VP Marcio Avillez to discuss the problem of smart device and IoT security and what we can do about it using AI technologies. Can AI help prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and improve smart home security? The company recently inked a deal with Comcast to shield almost 20 million households from malware and spyware -- and perhaps just as importantly, to protect the rest of the internet from insecure IoT devices on those homes' local networks. By using machine learning on huge amounts of network data to build a graph of normal device traffic and tracking anomalies that could indicate hackers recruiting smart devices for botnets or other nefarious purposes. "We're seeing IP cameras, network-attached storage, devices that have a little bit more CPU, a little bit more memory, that become kind of very useful tools for hackers to do the kinds of things that they want to do," Cujo vice president Marcio Avillez said.

This is how you choose a good VPN for Android. The new year is upon us and pretty much each and every online consumer who is concerned about his/her online privacy knows that the modern world of the internet is no more a place that is safe. In fact, according to some experts, the past year was the most devastating in terms of the number of ransomware attacks launched and data centers hacked. If someone is using the internet on a regular basis without any protection then that someone is actually making a big mistake. It is pretty much inviting malicious and harmful privacy threats into one's home without any obstruction. On that note, it is also true that if software is eating up the world then artificial intelligence is eating up software. Artificial intelligence has taken a back seat to the term machine learning lately. And that data is something everyone wants from you. From governments to internet service providers to online hackers to that tech-guy who comes to the park for fun, almost everyone is now looking for ways to get a hold of more data in one form or another.

With federal regulators poised to repeal net neutrality rules this week, your internet service provider would be allowed to speed up delivery of some online content to your home or phone. Whether those fast lanes are coming, and what they ultimately deliver for Americans, is unclear. The concept, known as paid prioritization, involves a telecommunications company charging an additional fee to transport a video stream or other content at a higher speed through its network. The fee would most likely come from deals struck with websites such as Netflix willing to pay for a competitive advantage over an online rival. Or the fee could be charged to a company providing services that require reliably fast connections, such as self-driving vehicles or remote health monitoring of people with serious illnesses.

Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona revealed on Wednesday that he intends to introduce a resolution to roll back privacy rules that restrict what internet service providers can do with customer data, according to a report from Politico. Flake said he intended to eliminate the Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules by using the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to undo rules set by federal agencies with a simple majority vote. The rules that Flake is taking aim at were first passed by the FCC in October 2016 and were aimed at giving consumers more control over their data by requiring internet service providers to ask for permission before using sensitive information. "We like to say it makes [consumers] the king or queen of their information," Dallas Harris, a policy fellow at open internet advocacy group Public Knowledge, told International Business Times. "The way the order does that is by saying, 'Okay internet service provider, if you would like to use sensitive information, you have to ask your consumers first.' The order defines sensitive information as information regarding a user's finances, health, information from children, precise geolocation data, web browsing history, and app usage history. It also includes any unencrypted message content that may be accessible to the service provider. Information deemed to be non-sensitive can be collected by default requires an option to opt-out. Internet service providers oppose the rules and lobbied for the FCC to undo them --a very real possibility under the leadership of Ajit Pai, who was appointed to the head of the FCC by President Donald Trump. Commissioner Pai opposed the rules when they were passed last year, arguing at the time, "if the FCC truly believes that these new rules are necessary to protect consumer privacy, then the government now must move forward to ensure uniform regulation of all companies in the Internet ecosystem at the new baseline the FCC has set." Pai's argument is essentially that if the FCC wants to make handing over consumer data require an opt-in for ISPs, it should for edge providers like Facebook and Google as well. It's unlikely Pai would extend the rules as he suggested, but he could modify them. "The agency is free to change its mind" on the ruling, Harris explained, "It just can't do so in an arbitrary and capricious manner...they can't just willy-nilly with no reason decide to rescind them." Doing so would require opening the rules up to public comment and would require the agency to change the rules based on new facts. Pai and the FCC also have the option to make changes by reviewing petitions for reconsideration, which allows the commission to change a rule without opening the process up to public comment. Both options are preferable to using the Congressional Review Act, which Harris calls "entirely too blunt of an instrument" to handle such a rule. "There really is no benefit to using the CRA here.

Technology is developing rapidly and every year there are new buzzwords that best explain current happenings and trends in the tech world. We all know what 2015 brought us, so now let's look into the future. The reason why these particular trends caught our attention is that they're more facts than predictions – the technology is already there and in 2016 will only become more popular. People love to use buzzwords in the tech industry, so check out our list of the top ten technology buzzwords that you won't be able to avoid in 2016. Scientists have been working on AI for years and in 2016 we will see its new applications.

A California court has dismissed part of a lawsuit brought by Twitter that challenges U.S. government restrictions on what it can say about surveillance requests on its users. Twitter sued the government in 2014, alleging that the restrictions, which are common to all Internet service providers, infringe its First Amendment right to free speech. Earlier this year, the Department of Justice asked the federal district court in Oakland, California, to toss out the lawsuit. It argued that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is a more suitable venue to hear the dispute, and that part of Twitter's argument didn't stand because the company isn't disputing document classification decisions made by the government. On Monday, a judge agreed with the government's latter argument but denied its request to shift the case to FISC.